Crop-loss band · Kansas
Brown County, Kansas — crop-loss band
- 0.33Low end of the filed band
- 1.31Middle of the filed band
- 3.65High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (3.85)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Brown 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 0.33 at the low end to 3.65 at the high end, with 1.31 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2018, at 3.85. 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 | $948,293 | $3,458,345 | $13,478,441 | 433 | 433 | 3.65 |
| 2016 | $349,828 | $460,876 | $4,013,108 | 79 | 78 | 1.32 |
| 2017 | $1,944,322 | $3,525,254 | $24,114,130 | 362 | 361 | 1.81 |
| 2018 | $3,858,776 | $14,868,829 | $55,234,574 | 823 | 823 | 3.85 |
| 2019 | $1,064,124 | $1,826,119 | $15,789,113 | 301 | 301 | 1.72 |
| 2020 | $79,095 | $103,232 | $1,307,374 | 23 | 23 | 1.31 |
| 2021 | $207,267 | $68,540 | $2,968,242 | 46 | 46 | 0.33 |
| 2022 | $818,315 | $929,283 | $10,554,965 | 159 | 159 | 1.14 |
| 2023 | $1,051,810 | $566,749 | $8,074,444 | 63 | 63 | 0.54 |
| 2024 | $1,336,263 | $1,438,857 | $11,523,825 | 177 | 177 | 1.08 |
Commodities insured in Brown 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
- 0.51Low end of the filed band
- 1.14Middle of the filed band
- 2.68High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (4.22)
- 10Years filed
- $7,967,349Premium filed
- $19,408,740Indemnity paid
- $90,880,905Liability insured
- 161,600Quantity planted
- 152,606Quantity lost
- 1,308Policies
- 1,307Policies with a loss
- 2.44Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Brown County
- Drought $15,683,391 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,446,479 indemnity · 9 years
- Decline in Price $691,723 indemnity · 7 years
- Heat $595,232 indemnity · 4 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $536,440 indemnity · 5 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $249,400 indemnity · 5 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.27Low end of the filed band
- 1.17Middle of the filed band
- 3.05High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (4.08)
- 10Years filed
- $3,690,744Premium filed
- $7,837,344Indemnity paid
- $56,177,311Liability insured
- 126,619Quantity planted
- 107,444Quantity lost
- 1,158Policies
- 1,157Policies with a loss
- 2.12Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Brown County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,095,716 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $2,473,876 indemnity · 9 years
- Decline in Price $1,078,424 indemnity · 8 years
- Hail $757,596 indemnity · 5 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $295,910 indemnity · 2 years
- Heat $62,744 indemnity · 5 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.