Crop-loss band · Nebraska
Valley County, Nebraska — crop-loss band
- 1.75Low end of the filed band
- 2.59Middle of the filed band
- 3.54High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (4.19)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Valley 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 1.75 at the low end to 3.54 at the high end, with 2.59 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 4.19. 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 | $651,459 | $1,613,349 | $4,838,790 | 231 | 229 | 2.48 |
| 2016 | $531,397 | $1,340,006 | $5,995,607 | 118 | 117 | 2.52 |
| 2017 | $298,627 | $875,792 | $2,771,177 | 84 | 84 | 2.93 |
| 2018 | $231,677 | $819,767 | $3,134,093 | 71 | 71 | 3.54 |
| 2019 | $777,413 | $3,259,557 | $7,775,882 | 189 | 189 | 4.19 |
| 2020 | $351,092 | $1,141,074 | $3,255,625 | 128 | 128 | 3.25 |
| 2021 | $366,495 | $713,614 | $2,181,181 | 106 | 106 | 1.95 |
| 2022 | $2,759,437 | $7,443,667 | $16,625,617 | 508 | 508 | 2.70 |
| 2023 | $2,848,762 | $7,368,964 | $19,960,883 | 485 | 485 | 2.59 |
| 2024 | $892,907 | $1,561,801 | $7,741,238 | 229 | 229 | 1.75 |
Commodities insured in Valley 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
- 1.03Low end of the filed band
- 2.78Middle of the filed band
- 4.07High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (4.07)
- 10Years filed
- $6,147,171Premium filed
- $16,811,327Indemnity paid
- $48,371,736Liability insured
- 71,504Quantity planted
- 74,286Quantity lost
- 934Policies
- 931Policies with a loss
- 2.73Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Valley County
- Drought $6,611,725 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $2,765,318 indemnity · 8 years
- Hail $2,234,007 indemnity · 8 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $2,036,117 indemnity · 9 years
- Heat $1,813,689 indemnity · 6 years
- Decline in Price $457,242 indemnity · 8 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.12Low end of the filed band
- 2.39Middle of the filed band
- 3.98High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (4.96)
- 10Years filed
- $2,567,512Premium filed
- $6,842,359Indemnity paid
- $19,791,645Liability insured
- 41,046Quantity planted
- 42,103Quantity lost
- 622Policies
- 622Policies with a loss
- 2.67Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Valley County
- Drought $2,730,660 indemnity · 8 years
- Hail $1,174,534 indemnity · 10 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,115,951 indemnity · 9 years
- Heat $861,199 indemnity · 8 years
- Hot Wind $204,035 indemnity · 5 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $161,637 indemnity · 4 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 10 years filed
- 0.84Low end of the filed band
- 1.97Middle of the filed band
- 3.05High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (3.33)
- 10Years filed
- $994,583Premium filed
- $2,483,905Indemnity paid
- $6,116,712Liability insured
- 126,427Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 593Policies
- 593Policies with a loss
- 2.50Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Valley County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $2,483,905 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.