Crop-loss band · Kansas
Geary County, Kansas — crop-loss band
- 0.61Low end of the filed band
- 1.93Middle of the filed band
- 3.66High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (6.00)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Geary 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 0.61 at the low end to 3.66 at the high end, with 1.93 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2018, at 6.00. 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 | $35,300 | $21,391 | $221,016 | 14 | 14 | 0.61 |
| 2016 | $20,457 | $20,262 | $143,947 | 16 | 16 | 0.99 |
| 2017 | $51,392 | $99,580 | $319,258 | 32 | 32 | 1.94 |
| 2018 | $436,289 | $2,618,512 | $3,734,744 | 198 | 196 | 6.00 |
| 2019 | $106,512 | $230,101 | $871,066 | 53 | 53 | 2.16 |
| 2020 | $11,138 | $15,432 | $84,932 | 9 | 9 | 1.39 |
| 2021 | $48,545 | $29,734 | $425,321 | 18 | 18 | 0.61 |
| 2022 | $301,287 | $651,702 | $3,135,069 | 85 | 85 | 2.16 |
| 2023 | $930,849 | $3,410,614 | $9,402,664 | 293 | 293 | 3.66 |
| 2024 | $203,879 | $394,312 | $2,150,751 | 90 | 90 | 1.93 |
Commodities insured in Geary 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.
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.61Low end of the filed band
- 1.26Middle of the filed band
- 3.66High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (5.13)
- 10Years filed
- $1,200,213Premium filed
- $4,184,388Indemnity paid
- $13,210,837Liability insured
- 34,277Quantity planted
- 34,008Quantity lost
- 500Policies
- 498Policies with a loss
- 3.49Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Geary County
- Drought $2,768,901 indemnity · 9 years
- Heat $981,565 indemnity · 4 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $132,242 indemnity · 9 years
- Other (Snow, Lightning, Etc.) $111,072 indemnity · 3 years
- Decline in Price $63,071 indemnity · 7 years
- Hot Wind $59,527 indemnity · 3 years
Corn 9 years filed
- 0.38Low end of the filed band
- 1.48Middle of the filed band
- 6.54High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (6.54)
- 9Years filed
- $945,435Premium filed
- $3,307,252Indemnity paid
- $7,277,931Liability insured
- 17,155Quantity planted
- 16,792Quantity lost
- 308Policies
- 308Policies with a loss
- 3.50Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Geary County
- Drought $2,387,144 indemnity · 9 years
- Hot Wind $318,423 indemnity · 2 years
- Heat $270,931 indemnity · 5 years
- Decline in Price $111,379 indemnity · 5 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $104,891 indemnity · 7 years
- Flood $45,915 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.