Crop-loss band · Iowa
Taylor County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 0.59Low end of the filed band
- 1.39Middle of the filed band
- 2.53High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (3.59)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Taylor County is in the series below, from 2015 to 2024. Read across those years the county’s annual loss ratio — indemnity divided by premium — runs from 0.59 at the low end to 2.53 at the high end, with 1.39 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2015, at 3.59. The band points are years the county actually ran, never a figure interpolated between two of them.
The county’s year-by-year record
| Year | Premium | Indemnity | Liability | Policies | Policies with a loss | Loss ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | $2,711,369 | $9,747,120 | $25,989,931 | 555 | 554 | 3.59 |
| 2016 | $629,198 | $688,856 | $6,485,547 | 140 | 140 | 1.09 |
| 2017 | $684,212 | $1,254,158 | $7,552,521 | 95 | 95 | 1.83 |
| 2018 | $997,356 | $2,101,933 | $12,074,808 | 216 | 216 | 2.11 |
| 2019 | $1,441,347 | $3,647,277 | $18,502,605 | 316 | 315 | 2.53 |
| 2020 | $644,811 | $876,247 | $7,626,871 | 123 | 123 | 1.36 |
| 2021 | $493,525 | $290,338 | $4,522,509 | 50 | 50 | 0.59 |
| 2022 | $1,312,657 | $1,785,956 | $12,805,068 | 163 | 163 | 1.36 |
| 2023 | $826,818 | $1,164,796 | $8,344,396 | 89 | 89 | 1.41 |
| 2024 | $1,616,605 | $2,249,457 | $17,556,112 | 181 | 181 | 1.39 |
Commodities insured in Taylor County
2 commodities here clear the desk’s floors — at least five filed years and a quarter of a million dollars of filed premium. Each carries its own band, so a reader can read the commodity they actually farm rather than the county average.
Corn 10 years filed
- 1.10Low end of the filed band
- 1.70Middle of the filed band
- 2.67High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (3.77)
- 10Years filed
- $6,034,286Premium filed
- $14,264,215Indemnity paid
- $67,993,190Liability insured
- 125,438Quantity planted
- 119,685Quantity lost
- 1,001Policies
- 1,000Policies with a loss
- 2.36Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Taylor County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $9,383,377 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $2,629,404 indemnity · 8 years
- Decline in Price $1,117,860 indemnity · 7 years
- Hail $385,994 indemnity · 5 years
- Cold Wet Weather $229,076 indemnity · 7 years
- Heat $120,039 indemnity · 3 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.36Low end of the filed band
- 1.16Middle of the filed band
- 2.20High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (3.36)
- 10Years filed
- $5,323,612Premium filed
- $9,541,923Indemnity paid
- $53,467,178Liability insured
- 132,941Quantity planted
- 109,495Quantity lost
- 927Policies
- 926Policies with a loss
- 1.79Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Taylor County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $5,403,796 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $2,517,452 indemnity · 8 years
- Decline in Price $894,308 indemnity · 8 years
- Cold Wet Weather $319,490 indemnity · 7 years
- Hail $167,533 indemnity · 5 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/PACE Crops Only $86,415 indemnity · 1 years
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Figures from the federal source files: EPA’s ECHO downloads, CMS provider files and the FMCSA census.
County cause-of-loss figures from the USDA Risk Management Agency’s Cause of Loss Summary of Business, county files, filed by the agency as a United States Government work. The loss ratio is the agency’s own published column: indemnity divided by premium, re-derived at the summed county-crop grain.