Crop-loss band · Kentucky
Butler County, Kentucky — crop-loss band
- 0.69Low end of the filed band
- 2.05Middle of the filed band
- 2.20High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (3.08)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Butler 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 0.69 at the low end to 2.20 at the high end, with 2.05 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2016, at 3.08. 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 | $416,362 | $848,851 | $4,382,746 | 62 | 62 | 2.04 |
| 2016 | $545,561 | $1,682,245 | $5,729,038 | 95 | 95 | 3.08 |
| 2017 | $256,723 | $531,582 | $2,280,361 | 51 | 49 | 2.07 |
| 2018 | $217,558 | $311,060 | $2,440,037 | 49 | 49 | 1.43 |
| 2019 | $383,984 | $844,851 | $4,496,045 | 99 | 99 | 2.20 |
| 2020 | $297,070 | $630,075 | $3,177,659 | 62 | 62 | 2.12 |
| 2021 | $799,468 | $555,456 | $8,066,312 | 93 | 93 | 0.69 |
| 2022 | $391,993 | $802,216 | $3,906,575 | 56 | 56 | 2.05 |
| 2023 | $668,006 | $665,096 | $8,023,979 | 81 | 81 | 1.00 |
| 2024 | $1,280,067 | $2,703,027 | $14,471,662 | 197 | 197 | 2.11 |
Commodities insured in Butler 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.
Corn 10 years filed
- 0.35Low end of the filed band
- 1.93Middle of the filed band
- 3.47High end of the filed band
- 2017Worst year filed (3.63)
- 10Years filed
- $2,656,796Premium filed
- $4,951,524Indemnity paid
- $25,229,430Liability insured
- 42,629Quantity planted
- 33,755Quantity lost
- 313Policies
- 313Policies with a loss
- 1.86Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Butler County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,790,198 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $412,324 indemnity · 3 years
- Decline in Price $264,605 indemnity · 5 years
- Cold Wet Weather $180,140 indemnity · 2 years
- Flood $136,245 indemnity · 4 years
- Heat $118,722 indemnity · 3 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.06Low end of the filed band
- 1.63Middle of the filed band
- 2.36High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (2.65)
- 10Years filed
- $2,599,996Premium filed
- $4,622,935Indemnity paid
- $31,744,984Liability insured
- 75,080Quantity planted
- 59,627Quantity lost
- 532Policies
- 530Policies with a loss
- 1.78Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Butler County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $2,795,707 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $1,240,565 indemnity · 6 years
- Decline in Price $160,999 indemnity · 4 years
- Flood $143,884 indemnity · 7 years
- Wildlife $115,603 indemnity · 7 years
- Freeze $66,131 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.