Crop-loss band · Kansas
Douglas County, Kansas — crop-loss band
- 0.72Low end of the filed band
- 1.44Middle of the filed band
- 1.87High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (2.52)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Douglas 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 0.72 at the low end to 1.87 at the high end, with 1.44 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2018, at 2.52. 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 | $66,739 | $115,324 | $441,160 | 28 | 28 | 1.73 |
| 2016 | $99,995 | $71,678 | $660,374 | 56 | 56 | 0.72 |
| 2017 | $153,733 | $287,838 | $1,226,212 | 62 | 62 | 1.87 |
| 2018 | $1,442,684 | $3,634,404 | $11,854,648 | 436 | 436 | 2.52 |
| 2019 | $526,660 | $759,206 | $3,907,894 | 232 | 232 | 1.44 |
| 2020 | $188,710 | $227,802 | $1,512,330 | 114 | 114 | 1.21 |
| 2021 | $583,400 | $610,903 | $4,453,260 | 144 | 144 | 1.05 |
| 2022 | $1,804,897 | $2,103,122 | $14,024,392 | 355 | 355 | 1.17 |
| 2023 | $1,587,358 | $2,642,925 | $13,924,395 | 439 | 439 | 1.67 |
| 2024 | $1,057,092 | $1,887,775 | $9,271,330 | 284 | 284 | 1.79 |
Commodities insured in Douglas County
3 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.
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.76Low end of the filed band
- 1.60Middle of the filed band
- 2.41High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (2.77)
- 10Years filed
- $3,862,051Premium filed
- $6,194,743Indemnity paid
- $34,639,920Liability insured
- 91,687Quantity planted
- 87,657Quantity lost
- 932Policies
- 932Policies with a loss
- 1.60Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Douglas County
- Drought $3,733,397 indemnity · 9 years
- Heat $1,330,512 indemnity · 6 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $595,138 indemnity · 10 years
- Decline in Price $245,675 indemnity · 7 years
- Flood $138,632 indemnity · 3 years
- Wildlife $65,696 indemnity · 3 years
Corn 10 years filed
- 0.65Low end of the filed band
- 0.95Middle of the filed band
- 2.88High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (2.98)
- 10Years filed
- $3,155,552Premium filed
- $5,239,611Indemnity paid
- $23,516,939Liability insured
- 53,404Quantity planted
- 50,758Quantity lost
- 776Policies
- 776Policies with a loss
- 1.66Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Douglas County
- Drought $3,452,931 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $969,934 indemnity · 8 years
- Heat $484,248 indemnity · 5 years
- Flood $193,967 indemnity · 4 years
- Decline in Price $61,660 indemnity · 8 years
- Other (Snow, Lightning, Etc.) $31,193 indemnity · 2 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 7 years filed
- 0.62Low end of the filed band
- 2.24Middle of the filed band
- 3.23High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (3.23)
- 7Years filed
- $493,665Premium filed
- $906,623Indemnity paid
- $3,119,136Liability insured
- 29,183Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 442Policies
- 442Policies with a loss
- 1.84Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Douglas County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $906,623 indemnity · 7 years
Every county-crop the agency files in Kansas → Buy the Douglas County dossier →
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.