Crop-loss band · Montana
Powder River County, Montana — crop-loss band
- 0.83Low end of the filed band
- 2.11Middle of the filed band
- 2.93High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (3.48)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Powder River 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 0.83 at the low end to 2.93 at the high end, with 2.11 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 3.48. 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 | $524,765 | $689,571 | $1,717,809 | 127 | 124 | 1.31 |
| 2016 | $651,713 | $1,574,714 | $2,828,128 | 278 | 260 | 2.42 |
| 2017 | $427,878 | $805,374 | $1,942,849 | 123 | 116 | 1.88 |
| 2018 | $14,836 | $12,290 | $59,763 | 10 | 8 | 0.83 |
| 2019 | $7,486 | $26,038 | $53,096 | 7 | 7 | 3.48 |
| 2020 | $572,984 | $1,449,058 | $2,513,180 | 170 | 168 | 2.53 |
| 2021 | $626,210 | $1,836,953 | $2,848,796 | 203 | 189 | 2.93 |
| 2022 | $312,293 | $695,148 | $1,593,694 | 48 | 48 | 2.23 |
| 2023 | $925,203 | $1,764,915 | $3,730,438 | 129 | 129 | 1.91 |
| 2024 | $1,152,485 | $2,436,773 | $5,175,929 | 242 | 242 | 2.11 |
Commodities insured in Powder River 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.
Forage Production 10 years filed
- 0.88Low end of the filed band
- 1.99Middle of the filed band
- 3.67High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (4.05)
- 10Years filed
- $3,530,544Premium filed
- $7,442,886Indemnity paid
- $13,828,278Liability insured
- 196,492Quantity planted
- 196,481Quantity lost
- 1,014Policies
- 968Policies with a loss
- 2.11Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Powder River County
- Drought $5,847,807 indemnity · 8 years
- Freeze $928,311 indemnity · 4 years
- Heat $250,455 indemnity · 6 years
- Hail $138,600 indemnity · 5 years
- Frost $121,507 indemnity · 4 years
- Hot Wind $44,350 indemnity · 2 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 10 years filed
- 0.04Low end of the filed band
- 2.21Middle of the filed band
- 2.69High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (3.39)
- 10Years filed
- $1,685,309Premium filed
- $3,847,948Indemnity paid
- $8,635,404Liability insured
- 820,402Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 323Policies
- 323Policies with a loss
- 2.28Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Powder River County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $3,847,948 indemnity · 10 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.