Crop-loss band · Louisiana
Bossier Parish, Louisiana — crop-loss band
- 1.28Low end of the filed band
- 2.43Middle of the filed band
- 3.46High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (5.61)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Bossier Parish 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 1.28 at the low end to 3.46 at the high end, with 2.43 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2018, at 5.61. 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 | $523,496 | $1,361,417 | $1,983,259 | 57 | 57 | 2.60 |
| 2016 | $393,017 | $504,419 | $2,010,130 | 43 | 43 | 1.28 |
| 2017 | $121,489 | $206,656 | $811,266 | 15 | 15 | 1.70 |
| 2018 | $446,897 | $2,505,451 | $2,951,907 | 41 | 41 | 5.61 |
| 2019 | $277,350 | $623,806 | $1,194,281 | 31 | 31 | 2.25 |
| 2020 | $368,054 | $893,150 | $1,672,791 | 38 | 38 | 2.43 |
| 2021 | $403,936 | $702,904 | $1,478,237 | 22 | 22 | 1.74 |
| 2022 | $348,047 | $1,189,550 | $2,215,495 | 29 | 29 | 3.42 |
| 2023 | $478,967 | $1,656,084 | $2,648,924 | 51 | 51 | 3.46 |
| 2024 | $435,687 | $1,325,061 | $1,752,345 | 31 | 31 | 3.04 |
Commodities insured in Bossier Parish
3 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.
All Other Crops 10 years filed
- 1.28Low end of the filed band
- 2.60Middle of the filed band
- 3.33High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (5.61)
- 10Years filed
- $1,932,250Premium filed
- $5,689,757Indemnity paid
- $9,925,075Liability insured
- 43,877Quantity planted
- 41,134Quantity lost
- 207Policies
- 207Policies with a loss
- 2.94Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Bossier Parish
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,286,928 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $1,174,480 indemnity · 3 years
- Heat $395,076 indemnity · 4 years
- Flood $297,133 indemnity · 2 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $261,165 indemnity · 7 years
- Mycotoxin $188,866 indemnity · 3 years
Soybeans 5 years filed
- 1.61Low end of the filed band
- 3.03Middle of the filed band
- 3.18High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (3.18)
- 5Years filed
- $1,540,334Premium filed
- $4,064,768Indemnity paid
- $6,410,717Liability insured
- 26,108Quantity planted
- 30,446Quantity lost
- 113Policies
- 113Policies with a loss
- 2.64Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Bossier Parish
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $2,231,700 indemnity · 5 years
- Drought $1,595,277 indemnity · 5 years
- Heat $237,791 indemnity · 4 years
Corn 5 years filed
- 1.74Low end of the filed band
- 2.49Middle of the filed band
- 5.94High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (5.94)
- 5Years filed
- $324,356Premium filed
- $1,213,973Indemnity paid
- $2,382,843Liability insured
- 6,220Quantity planted
- 6,669Quantity lost
- 38Policies
- 38Policies with a loss
- 3.74Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Bossier Parish
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $747,732 indemnity · 5 years
- Drought $155,896 indemnity · 1 years
- Heat $124,855 indemnity · 1 years
- Mycotoxin $69,813 indemnity · 3 years
- Freeze $33,276 indemnity · 1 years
- Hail $33,018 indemnity · 1 years
Every county-crop the agency files in Louisiana → Buy the Bossier Parish 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.