Crop-loss band · Minnesota
Washington County, Minnesota — crop-loss band
- 0.52Low end of the filed band
- 2.13Middle of the filed band
- 3.01High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (3.80)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Washington 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 0.52 at the low end to 3.01 at the high end, with 2.13 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 3.80. 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 | $26,955 | $14,075 | $223,573 | 8 | 8 | 0.52 |
| 2016 | $4,536 | $13,658 | $40,201 | 3 | 3 | 3.01 |
| 2017 | $119,860 | $265,314 | $987,816 | 30 | 30 | 2.21 |
| 2018 | $163,829 | $173,524 | $1,323,399 | 50 | 50 | 1.06 |
| 2019 | $90,607 | $344,160 | $544,745 | 34 | 34 | 3.80 |
| 2020 | $13,135 | $35,273 | $110,014 | 7 | 7 | 2.69 |
| 2021 | $542,854 | $1,206,184 | $5,033,050 | 95 | 95 | 2.22 |
| 2022 | $442,477 | $833,324 | $4,488,493 | 51 | 51 | 1.88 |
| 2023 | $629,965 | $1,339,160 | $6,440,136 | 176 | 176 | 2.13 |
| 2024 | $238,615 | $411,933 | $2,267,547 | 69 | 69 | 1.73 |
Commodities insured in Washington 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 9 years filed
- 0.69Low end of the filed band
- 2.20Middle of the filed band
- 5.21High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (5.21)
- 9Years filed
- $1,487,323Premium filed
- $3,353,298Indemnity paid
- $14,746,114Liability insured
- 20,586Quantity planted
- 20,480Quantity lost
- 297Policies
- 297Policies with a loss
- 2.25Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Washington County
- Drought $2,365,260 indemnity · 6 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $439,297 indemnity · 6 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP WI Crops Only $205,061 indemnity · 3 years
- Decline in Price $90,835 indemnity · 5 years
- Other (Snow, Lightning, Etc.) $74,488 indemnity · 1 years
- Cold Wet Weather $50,332 indemnity · 3 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.36Low end of the filed band
- 1.68Middle of the filed band
- 2.69High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (3.73)
- 10Years filed
- $785,510Premium filed
- $1,283,307Indemnity paid
- $6,712,860Liability insured
- 15,304Quantity planted
- 15,303Quantity lost
- 226Policies
- 226Policies with a loss
- 1.63Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Washington County
- Drought $720,520 indemnity · 6 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $256,859 indemnity · 6 years
- Plant Disease $82,881 indemnity · 1 years
- Decline in Price $77,003 indemnity · 6 years
- Hail $47,334 indemnity · 4 years
- Cold Wet Weather $36,205 indemnity · 3 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.