Crop-loss band · Mississippi
Sharkey County, Mississippi — crop-loss band
- 1.07Low end of the filed band
- 2.82Middle of the filed band
- 4.02High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (5.12)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Sharkey 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 1.07 at the low end to 4.02 at the high end, with 2.82 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 5.12. 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 | $451,680 | $1,271,709 | $4,724,914 | 55 | 55 | 2.82 |
| 2016 | $713,488 | $2,020,601 | $11,850,010 | 114 | 114 | 2.83 |
| 2017 | $441,590 | $473,232 | $4,393,130 | 31 | 31 | 1.07 |
| 2018 | $498,177 | $1,407,035 | $6,301,105 | 63 | 63 | 2.82 |
| 2019 | $3,271,262 | $16,733,981 | $23,170,357 | 207 | 207 | 5.12 |
| 2020 | $1,852,337 | $7,450,331 | $14,335,148 | 139 | 139 | 4.02 |
| 2021 | $922,837 | $1,244,752 | $10,894,166 | 51 | 51 | 1.35 |
| 2022 | $953,238 | $1,683,832 | $10,572,355 | 42 | 42 | 1.77 |
| 2023 | $1,489,388 | $3,749,041 | $15,434,683 | 63 | 63 | 2.52 |
| 2024 | $1,549,090 | $5,855,248 | $19,970,984 | 123 | 123 | 3.78 |
Commodities insured in Sharkey County
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.
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.83Low end of the filed band
- 1.75Middle of the filed band
- 3.36High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (6.43)
- 10Years filed
- $5,635,512Premium filed
- $18,956,105Indemnity paid
- $62,315,306Liability insured
- 165,529Quantity planted
- 123,230Quantity lost
- 428Policies
- 428Policies with a loss
- 3.36Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Sharkey County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $6,938,895 indemnity · 10 years
- Flood $6,054,582 indemnity · 6 years
- Heat $3,192,389 indemnity · 5 years
- Drought $2,129,825 indemnity · 6 years
- Decline in Price $527,843 indemnity · 3 years
- Wildlife $58,649 indemnity · 8 years
Corn 10 years filed
- 0.46Low end of the filed band
- 3.05Middle of the filed band
- 4.62High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (6.53)
- 10Years filed
- $4,659,710Premium filed
- $18,424,356Indemnity paid
- $49,600,569Liability insured
- 124,344Quantity planted
- 106,079Quantity lost
- 367Policies
- 367Policies with a loss
- 3.95Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Sharkey County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $13,870,748 indemnity · 10 years
- Flood $3,918,677 indemnity · 5 years
- Heat $369,949 indemnity · 2 years
- Cold Wet Weather $128,887 indemnity · 3 years
- Decline in Price $62,335 indemnity · 2 years
- Drought $42,849 indemnity · 2 years
Cotton 10 years filed
- 1.39Low end of the filed band
- 2.40Middle of the filed band
- 4.04High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (21.50)
- 10Years filed
- $1,847,865Premium filed
- $4,509,301Indemnity paid
- $9,730,977Liability insured
- 22,103Quantity planted
- 24,001Quantity lost
- 93Policies
- 93Policies with a loss
- 2.44Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Sharkey County
- Flood $1,806,461 indemnity · 3 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,595,398 indemnity · 9 years
- Heat $454,593 indemnity · 3 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $330,947 indemnity · 2 years
- Frost $173,623 indemnity · 1 years
- Decline in Price $70,696 indemnity · 2 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.