Crop-loss band · Iowa
Washington County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 0.98Low end of the filed band
- 1.81Middle of the filed band
- 2.47High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (2.49)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Washington 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 0.98 at the low end to 2.47 at the high end, with 1.81 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2018, at 2.49. 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 | $287,213 | $519,210 | $2,776,651 | 113 | 113 | 1.81 |
| 2016 | $254,671 | $297,772 | $2,726,102 | 86 | 85 | 1.17 |
| 2017 | $272,602 | $543,403 | $3,569,605 | 121 | 120 | 1.99 |
| 2018 | $375,877 | $934,314 | $4,338,494 | 157 | 157 | 2.49 |
| 2019 | $1,433,311 | $3,541,218 | $16,630,502 | 428 | 426 | 2.47 |
| 2020 | $1,519,316 | $3,039,121 | $20,701,664 | 316 | 315 | 2.00 |
| 2021 | $848,705 | $1,196,954 | $9,769,172 | 182 | 181 | 1.41 |
| 2022 | $1,413,633 | $2,789,712 | $17,427,884 | 250 | 250 | 1.97 |
| 2023 | $2,427,452 | $2,389,118 | $28,464,515 | 245 | 245 | 0.98 |
| 2024 | $490,435 | $792,833 | $7,697,610 | 122 | 122 | 1.62 |
Commodities insured in Washington 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
- 0.76Low end of the filed band
- 1.62Middle of the filed band
- 2.13High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (2.47)
- 10Years filed
- $7,361,455Premium filed
- $11,142,672Indemnity paid
- $83,731,112Liability insured
- 94,072Quantity planted
- 98,963Quantity lost
- 1,233Policies
- 1,230Policies with a loss
- 1.51Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Washington County
- Drought $5,104,062 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,731,501 indemnity · 10 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $813,977 indemnity · 4 years
- Decline in Price $338,961 indemnity · 9 years
- Cold Wet Weather $321,410 indemnity · 7 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $315,916 indemnity · 4 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.73Low end of the filed band
- 2.31Middle of the filed band
- 3.18High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (4.44)
- 10Years filed
- $1,961,760Premium filed
- $4,900,983Indemnity paid
- $30,371,087Liability insured
- 56,583Quantity planted
- 51,927Quantity lost
- 787Policies
- 784Policies with a loss
- 2.50Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Washington County
- Drought $2,217,604 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,560,707 indemnity · 10 years
- Flood $249,734 indemnity · 4 years
- Hail $238,299 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/PACE Crops Only $186,167 indemnity · 1 years
- Decline in Price $148,555 indemnity · 9 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.