Crop-loss band · Iowa
Van Buren County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 1.14Low end of the filed band
- 1.94Middle of the filed band
- 2.68High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (2.97)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Van Buren 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 1.14 at the low end to 2.68 at the high end, with 1.94 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2015, at 2.97. 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 | $1,302,717 | $3,865,632 | $10,638,536 | 376 | 376 | 2.97 |
| 2016 | $293,212 | $340,764 | $2,595,437 | 130 | 130 | 1.16 |
| 2017 | $1,871,356 | $4,808,137 | $17,086,453 | 456 | 456 | 2.57 |
| 2018 | $187,366 | $399,360 | $1,852,718 | 102 | 102 | 2.13 |
| 2019 | $1,051,323 | $2,820,346 | $9,588,804 | 303 | 303 | 2.68 |
| 2020 | $951,581 | $1,847,783 | $10,634,557 | 239 | 235 | 1.94 |
| 2021 | $2,303,867 | $3,911,968 | $20,838,378 | 411 | 408 | 1.70 |
| 2022 | $2,164,146 | $4,080,565 | $19,880,596 | 281 | 281 | 1.89 |
| 2023 | $1,134,676 | $2,350,058 | $10,934,194 | 219 | 219 | 2.07 |
| 2024 | $376,631 | $428,741 | $3,625,562 | 82 | 82 | 1.14 |
Commodities insured in Van Buren 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
- 1.01Low end of the filed band
- 1.75Middle of the filed band
- 2.52High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (2.71)
- 10Years filed
- $7,608,712Premium filed
- $15,668,726Indemnity paid
- $65,230,043Liability insured
- 119,725Quantity planted
- 116,324Quantity lost
- 1,384Policies
- 1,382Policies with a loss
- 2.06Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Van Buren County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $7,825,514 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $6,700,192 indemnity · 10 years
- Cold Wet Weather $299,558 indemnity · 8 years
- Decline in Price $232,559 indemnity · 7 years
- Heat $161,815 indemnity · 4 years
- Wildlife $151,955 indemnity · 7 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.20Low end of the filed band
- 2.22Middle of the filed band
- 3.31High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (3.39)
- 10Years filed
- $4,028,163Premium filed
- $9,184,628Indemnity paid
- $42,445,192Liability insured
- 104,195Quantity planted
- 95,523Quantity lost
- 1,215Policies
- 1,210Policies with a loss
- 2.28Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Van Buren County
- Drought $4,833,734 indemnity · 10 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,570,010 indemnity · 10 years
- Cold Wet Weather $189,553 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $152,856 indemnity · 4 years
- Wildlife $145,218 indemnity · 9 years
- Hail $91,998 indemnity · 4 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.