Crop-loss band · Kansas
Woodson County, Kansas — crop-loss band
- 0.71Low end of the filed band
- 1.12Middle of the filed band
- 2.81High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (2.98)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Woodson 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 0.71 at the low end to 2.81 at the high end, with 1.12 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2023, at 2.98. 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 | $399,626 | $445,935 | $1,982,456 | 136 | 134 | 1.12 |
| 2016 | $73,677 | $59,465 | $386,002 | 29 | 29 | 0.81 |
| 2017 | $788,591 | $792,261 | $4,716,987 | 129 | 129 | 1.00 |
| 2018 | $438,850 | $309,968 | $3,363,409 | 98 | 98 | 0.71 |
| 2019 | $1,110,427 | $1,578,175 | $7,264,678 | 268 | 266 | 1.42 |
| 2020 | $765,456 | $820,281 | $5,069,380 | 237 | 237 | 1.07 |
| 2021 | $1,017,618 | $1,183,304 | $6,803,935 | 220 | 218 | 1.16 |
| 2022 | $3,765,826 | $10,597,095 | $26,164,738 | 522 | 522 | 2.81 |
| 2023 | $2,986,001 | $8,889,026 | $21,369,483 | 456 | 456 | 2.98 |
| 2024 | $2,252,192 | $4,414,484 | $15,050,422 | 377 | 377 | 1.96 |
Commodities insured in Woodson 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.
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.28Low end of the filed band
- 0.97Middle of the filed band
- 3.38High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (4.30)
- 10Years filed
- $7,138,803Premium filed
- $18,222,338Indemnity paid
- $52,146,128Liability insured
- 160,184Quantity planted
- 144,996Quantity lost
- 1,143Policies
- 1,143Policies with a loss
- 2.55Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Woodson County
- Drought $13,332,013 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $2,712,487 indemnity · 6 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,249,434 indemnity · 10 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $387,618 indemnity · 3 years
- Decline in Price $229,593 indemnity · 6 years
- Hail $142,710 indemnity · 8 years
Corn 10 years filed
- 0.42Low end of the filed band
- 0.99Middle of the filed band
- 1.98High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (2.09)
- 10Years filed
- $4,606,815Premium filed
- $7,538,959Indemnity paid
- $29,936,288Liability insured
- 67,462Quantity planted
- 65,693Quantity lost
- 666Policies
- 663Policies with a loss
- 1.64Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Woodson County
- Drought $4,896,952 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,257,579 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $852,290 indemnity · 6 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $241,914 indemnity · 2 years
- Decline in Price $177,043 indemnity · 6 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $75,513 indemnity · 1 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 7 years filed
- 1.08Low end of the filed band
- 1.61Middle of the filed band
- 1.94High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (1.94)
- 7Years filed
- $1,159,621Premium filed
- $1,790,706Indemnity paid
- $6,541,882Liability insured
- 71,493Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 447Policies
- 447Policies with a loss
- 1.54Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Woodson County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $1,790,706 indemnity · 7 years
Wheat 10 years filed
- 1.24Low end of the filed band
- 2.12Middle of the filed band
- 2.87High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (4.26)
- 10Years filed
- $693,025Premium filed
- $1,537,991Indemnity paid
- $3,547,192Liability insured
- 20,522Quantity planted
- 20,585Quantity lost
- 216Policies
- 213Policies with a loss
- 2.22Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Woodson County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,306,103 indemnity · 10 years
- Cold Wet Weather $89,796 indemnity · 4 years
- Decline in Price $64,216 indemnity · 5 years
- Drought $59,164 indemnity · 8 years
- Flood $12,799 indemnity · 3 years
- Mycotoxin $2,481 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.