Crop-loss band · Kansas
Ottawa County, Kansas — crop-loss band
- 1.42Low end of the filed band
- 1.86Middle of the filed band
- 2.88High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (2.95)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Ottawa 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 1.42 at the low end to 2.88 at the high end, with 1.86 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2023, at 2.95. 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 | $1,319,430 | $3,028,649 | $11,753,618 | 763 | 759 | 2.30 |
| 2016 | $410,070 | $639,532 | $2,899,731 | 229 | 229 | 1.56 |
| 2017 | $1,170,647 | $1,661,549 | $7,564,364 | 460 | 460 | 1.42 |
| 2018 | $607,151 | $1,460,630 | $4,637,736 | 331 | 331 | 2.41 |
| 2019 | $815,630 | $2,345,549 | $6,191,896 | 510 | 509 | 2.88 |
| 2020 | $338,996 | $575,927 | $2,832,012 | 259 | 258 | 1.70 |
| 2021 | $764,861 | $1,357,044 | $5,597,481 | 375 | 375 | 1.77 |
| 2022 | $5,047,705 | $14,089,716 | $36,915,814 | 1,187 | 1,186 | 2.79 |
| 2023 | $7,636,841 | $22,528,729 | $52,184,894 | 1,717 | 1,717 | 2.95 |
| 2024 | $3,376,525 | $6,289,985 | $20,600,463 | 950 | 950 | 1.86 |
Commodities insured in Ottawa County
5 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
- 1.27Low end of the filed band
- 1.75Middle of the filed band
- 3.47High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (3.77)
- 10Years filed
- $9,507,993Premium filed
- $26,554,256Indemnity paid
- $69,680,863Liability insured
- 203,533Quantity planted
- 198,564Quantity lost
- 2,268Policies
- 2,266Policies with a loss
- 2.79Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Ottawa County
- Drought $18,612,271 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $5,529,031 indemnity · 9 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP WI Crops Only $886,043 indemnity · 4 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $795,443 indemnity · 10 years
- Hail $378,980 indemnity · 7 years
- Decline in Price $209,428 indemnity · 7 years
Wheat 10 years filed
- 2.04Low end of the filed band
- 2.47Middle of the filed band
- 3.39High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (3.88)
- 10Years filed
- $4,699,519Premium filed
- $13,145,199Indemnity paid
- $42,239,734Liability insured
- 193,057Quantity planted
- 193,352Quantity lost
- 2,129Policies
- 2,126Policies with a loss
- 2.80Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Ottawa County
- Drought $8,509,339 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,756,072 indemnity · 9 years
- Cold Winter $832,183 indemnity · 6 years
- Decline in Price $559,537 indemnity · 6 years
- Hail $382,965 indemnity · 8 years
- Freeze $334,764 indemnity · 8 years
Grain Sorghum 10 years filed
- 1.02Low end of the filed band
- 1.85Middle of the filed band
- 2.70High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (3.02)
- 10Years filed
- $3,049,148Premium filed
- $7,450,517Indemnity paid
- $19,315,484Liability insured
- 63,285Quantity planted
- 62,767Quantity lost
- 1,049Policies
- 1,047Policies with a loss
- 2.44Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Ottawa County
- Drought $5,160,098 indemnity · 9 years
- Heat $1,081,140 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $573,346 indemnity · 9 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $178,736 indemnity · 3 years
- Hail $115,272 indemnity · 5 years
- Cold Wet Weather $94,261 indemnity · 1 years
Corn 10 years filed
- 0.39Low end of the filed band
- 1.22Middle of the filed band
- 1.81High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (1.86)
- 10Years filed
- $3,200,518Premium filed
- $4,934,152Indemnity paid
- $13,879,540Liability insured
- 36,462Quantity planted
- 35,789Quantity lost
- 531Policies
- 531Policies with a loss
- 1.54Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Ottawa County
- Drought $3,049,451 indemnity · 8 years
- Heat $988,324 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $596,327 indemnity · 2 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $216,997 indemnity · 5 years
- Hot Wind $46,570 indemnity · 3 years
- Decline in Price $38,849 indemnity · 5 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 10 years filed
- 0.67Low end of the filed band
- 1.78Middle of the filed band
- 2.29High end of the filed band
- 2017Worst year filed (3.17)
- 10Years filed
- $1,030,678Premium filed
- $1,893,186Indemnity paid
- $6,062,388Liability insured
- 96,297Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 804Policies
- 804Policies with a loss
- 1.84Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Ottawa County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $1,893,186 indemnity · 10 years
Every county-crop the agency files in Kansas → Buy the Ottawa 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.