Crop-loss band · Nebraska
Brown County, Nebraska — crop-loss band
- 1.66Low end of the filed band
- 2.04Middle of the filed band
- 3.79High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (3.86)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Brown 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 1.66 at the low end to 3.79 at the high end, with 2.04 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 3.86. 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 | $103,508 | $171,459 | $1,091,451 | 26 | 26 | 1.66 |
| 2016 | $156,444 | $319,523 | $893,769 | 34 | 34 | 2.04 |
| 2017 | $335,412 | $656,589 | $2,775,422 | 80 | 80 | 1.96 |
| 2018 | $87,868 | $174,939 | $941,781 | 24 | 24 | 1.99 |
| 2019 | $577,576 | $2,231,868 | $6,028,544 | 93 | 93 | 3.86 |
| 2020 | $371,355 | $1,408,884 | $2,763,809 | 120 | 120 | 3.79 |
| 2021 | $259,507 | $573,878 | $1,656,470 | 83 | 83 | 2.21 |
| 2022 | $916,468 | $2,568,638 | $8,160,096 | 271 | 271 | 2.80 |
| 2023 | $1,193,252 | $2,988,799 | $9,589,104 | 210 | 210 | 2.50 |
| 2024 | $1,691,783 | $2,983,299 | $10,111,643 | 332 | 332 | 1.76 |
Commodities insured in Brown 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.
Corn 10 years filed
- 0.64Low end of the filed band
- 2.05Middle of the filed band
- 4.07High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (6.83)
- 10Years filed
- $2,397,783Premium filed
- $6,616,848Indemnity paid
- $22,964,839Liability insured
- 32,738Quantity planted
- 32,480Quantity lost
- 300Policies
- 300Policies with a loss
- 2.76Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Brown County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $2,520,915 indemnity · 7 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $760,094 indemnity · 5 years
- Hail $721,148 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $702,328 indemnity · 5 years
- Cold Wet Weather $423,920 indemnity · 4 years
- Decline in Price $395,396 indemnity · 7 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 9 years filed
- 1.40Low end of the filed band
- 2.01Middle of the filed band
- 2.73High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (2.73)
- 9Years filed
- $2,707,535Premium filed
- $5,713,994Indemnity paid
- $13,591,590Liability insured
- 394,849Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 804Policies
- 804Policies with a loss
- 2.11Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Brown County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $5,713,994 indemnity · 9 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.34Low end of the filed band
- 3.10Middle of the filed band
- 4.70High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (4.96)
- 10Years filed
- $587,855Premium filed
- $1,747,034Indemnity paid
- $7,455,660Liability insured
- 14,749Quantity planted
- 14,023Quantity lost
- 169Policies
- 169Policies with a loss
- 2.97Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Brown County
- Heat $606,633 indemnity · 4 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $434,740 indemnity · 6 years
- Hail $333,091 indemnity · 8 years
- Cold Wet Weather $98,543 indemnity · 4 years
- Decline in Price $82,664 indemnity · 6 years
- Drought $70,109 indemnity · 4 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.