Crop-loss band · Indiana
Blackford County, Indiana — crop-loss band
- 0.25Low end of the filed band
- 0.63Middle of the filed band
- 3.06High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (3.89)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Blackford 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 0.25 at the low end to 3.06 at the high end, with 0.63 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 3.89. 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 | $2,026,290 | $6,195,189 | $23,820,662 | 350 | 350 | 3.06 |
| 2016 | $517,655 | $234,419 | $6,085,532 | 63 | 62 | 0.45 |
| 2017 | $1,259,416 | $919,600 | $15,268,611 | 215 | 215 | 0.73 |
| 2018 | $284,405 | $295,057 | $3,884,971 | 43 | 43 | 1.04 |
| 2019 | $841,793 | $3,274,938 | $9,944,403 | 194 | 194 | 3.89 |
| 2020 | $593,979 | $181,091 | $9,033,236 | 93 | 93 | 0.30 |
| 2021 | $146,851 | $37,168 | $1,758,078 | 17 | 17 | 0.25 |
| 2022 | $103,471 | $36,914 | $1,296,911 | 22 | 22 | 0.36 |
| 2023 | $217,731 | $137,552 | $3,108,491 | 61 | 61 | 0.63 |
| 2024 | $803,205 | $907,436 | $10,091,936 | 127 | 127 | 1.13 |
Commodities insured in Blackford 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 9 years filed
- 0.22Low end of the filed band
- 0.50Middle of the filed band
- 6.63High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (6.63)
- 9Years filed
- $2,825,301Premium filed
- $6,221,387Indemnity paid
- $32,463,885Liability insured
- 62,235Quantity planted
- 45,105Quantity lost
- 461Policies
- 461Policies with a loss
- 2.20Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Blackford County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $5,089,129 indemnity · 9 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $528,096 indemnity · 1 years
- Decline in Price $323,131 indemnity · 6 years
- Cold Wet Weather $191,644 indemnity · 6 years
- Drought $71,789 indemnity · 5 years
- Flood $7,408 indemnity · 1 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.23Low end of the filed band
- 0.67Middle of the filed band
- 1.83High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (3.20)
- 10Years filed
- $3,969,495Premium filed
- $5,997,977Indemnity paid
- $51,828,946Liability insured
- 115,043Quantity planted
- 83,550Quantity lost
- 724Policies
- 723Policies with a loss
- 1.51Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Blackford County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $4,159,555 indemnity · 10 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $618,491 indemnity · 2 years
- Decline in Price $552,576 indemnity · 6 years
- Drought $480,965 indemnity · 7 years
- Cold Wet Weather $120,472 indemnity · 9 years
- Plant Disease $22,909 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.