Crop-loss band · Kansas
Republic County, Kansas — crop-loss band
- 1.42Low end of the filed band
- 1.99Middle of the filed band
- 3.26High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (4.75)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Republic 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 3.26 at the high end, with 1.99 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2023, at 4.75. 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 | $1,302,183 | $3,973,894 | $11,778,534 | 789 | 789 | 3.05 |
| 2016 | $333,596 | $473,775 | $3,396,827 | 204 | 198 | 1.42 |
| 2017 | $704,721 | $1,087,572 | $6,735,566 | 354 | 354 | 1.54 |
| 2018 | $1,575,053 | $3,987,959 | $15,591,511 | 650 | 650 | 2.53 |
| 2019 | $754,470 | $2,154,899 | $9,065,904 | 461 | 460 | 2.86 |
| 2020 | $126,440 | $412,513 | $1,287,578 | 145 | 143 | 3.26 |
| 2021 | $442,131 | $879,451 | $3,999,796 | 200 | 200 | 1.99 |
| 2022 | $1,341,598 | $2,514,534 | $13,481,030 | 428 | 428 | 1.87 |
| 2023 | $10,566,178 | $50,156,953 | $114,131,953 | 2,125 | 2,122 | 4.75 |
| 2024 | $2,847,115 | $5,503,666 | $28,723,490 | 792 | 792 | 1.93 |
Commodities insured in Republic County
4 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
- 1.28Low end of the filed band
- 1.82Middle of the filed band
- 3.36High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (4.89)
- 10Years filed
- $9,378,094Premium filed
- $35,766,375Indemnity paid
- $98,434,386Liability insured
- 172,395Quantity planted
- 171,182Quantity lost
- 2,001Policies
- 1,999Policies with a loss
- 3.81Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Republic County
- Drought $26,229,695 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $4,312,780 indemnity · 7 years
- Hail $2,335,835 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $935,853 indemnity · 8 years
- Decline in Price $756,010 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $317,311 indemnity · 3 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.40Low end of the filed band
- 1.76Middle of the filed band
- 2.29High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (5.18)
- 10Years filed
- $7,506,660Premium filed
- $25,990,490Indemnity paid
- $84,427,095Liability insured
- 187,965Quantity planted
- 180,421Quantity lost
- 2,318Policies
- 2,313Policies with a loss
- 3.46Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Republic County
- Drought $18,060,767 indemnity · 9 years
- Heat $4,103,471 indemnity · 8 years
- Hail $2,245,881 indemnity · 10 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $633,184 indemnity · 10 years
- Decline in Price $422,970 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $188,426 indemnity · 3 years
Wheat 10 years filed
- 1.02Low end of the filed band
- 2.60Middle of the filed band
- 3.56High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (4.54)
- 10Years filed
- $2,479,092Premium filed
- $7,211,562Indemnity paid
- $20,020,457Liability insured
- 89,237Quantity planted
- 89,325Quantity lost
- 1,433Policies
- 1,431Policies with a loss
- 2.91Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Republic County
- Drought $3,159,140 indemnity · 9 years
- Cold Winter $1,489,017 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,193,437 indemnity · 7 years
- Freeze $500,709 indemnity · 7 years
- Hail $331,977 indemnity · 6 years
- Decline in Price $271,903 indemnity · 7 years
Grain Sorghum 10 years filed
- 1.40Low end of the filed band
- 2.79Middle of the filed band
- 4.78High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (6.10)
- 10Years filed
- $629,639Premium filed
- $2,176,789Indemnity paid
- $5,310,250Liability insured
- 16,899Quantity planted
- 17,043Quantity lost
- 396Policies
- 393Policies with a loss
- 3.46Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Republic County
- Drought $1,376,967 indemnity · 9 years
- Heat $301,504 indemnity · 3 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $217,788 indemnity · 6 years
- Freeze $117,636 indemnity · 5 years
- Hail $75,392 indemnity · 5 years
- Decline in Price $30,997 indemnity · 6 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.