Crop-loss band · Ohio
Brown County, Ohio — crop-loss band
- 0.80Low end of the filed band
- 1.12Middle of the filed band
- 2.58High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (2.82)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Brown County is in the series below, from 2015 to 2023. Read across those years the county’s annual loss ratio — indemnity divided by premium — runs from 0.80 at the low end to 2.58 at the high end, with 1.12 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 2.82. 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 | $405,928 | $1,046,619 | $3,015,026 | 189 | 185 | 2.58 |
| 2016 | $777,977 | $766,713 | $5,681,930 | 190 | 190 | 0.99 |
| 2017 | $1,052,421 | $1,028,287 | $8,918,566 | 251 | 251 | 0.98 |
| 2018 | $942,063 | $1,709,105 | $9,246,703 | 302 | 302 | 1.81 |
| 2019 | $1,461,071 | $4,124,253 | $12,748,354 | 449 | 449 | 2.82 |
| 2020 | $601,695 | $813,842 | $5,696,852 | 181 | 181 | 1.35 |
| 2021 | $954,942 | $1,068,439 | $8,555,505 | 229 | 229 | 1.12 |
| 2022 | $1,850,393 | $1,920,621 | $16,014,617 | 310 | 310 | 1.04 |
| 2023 | $652,499 | $524,549 | $6,401,879 | 114 | 114 | 0.80 |
| 2024 | $1,902,897 | $3,429,424 | $20,566,245 | 446 | 446 | 1.80 |
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.
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.77Low end of the filed band
- 0.97Middle of the filed band
- 1.87High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (2.71)
- 10Years filed
- $7,777,708Premium filed
- $11,319,374Indemnity paid
- $76,055,198Liability insured
- 186,558Quantity planted
- 148,607Quantity lost
- 1,885Policies
- 1,881Policies with a loss
- 1.46Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Brown County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $7,250,614 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $2,880,485 indemnity · 9 years
- Decline in Price $671,392 indemnity · 8 years
- Cold Wet Weather $167,281 indemnity · 5 years
- Wildlife $165,252 indemnity · 10 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $87,081 indemnity · 2 years
Corn 10 years filed
- 0.66Low end of the filed band
- 1.20Middle of the filed band
- 2.26High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (3.13)
- 10Years filed
- $2,488,782Premium filed
- $3,863,602Indemnity paid
- $18,715,829Liability insured
- 35,398Quantity planted
- 29,572Quantity lost
- 592Policies
- 592Policies with a loss
- 1.55Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Brown County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,090,006 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $424,703 indemnity · 9 years
- Cold Wet Weather $161,638 indemnity · 4 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/PACE Crops Only $101,693 indemnity · 1 years
- Decline in Price $54,410 indemnity · 5 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $15,941 indemnity · 1 years
Burley Tobacco 9 years filed
- 1.62Low end of the filed band
- 3.16Middle of the filed band
- 5.24High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (5.24)
- 9Years filed
- $335,396Premium filed
- $1,248,876Indemnity paid
- $2,074,650Liability insured
- 870Quantity planted
- 883Quantity lost
- 184Policies
- 184Policies with a loss
- 3.72Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Brown County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,120,510 indemnity · 8 years
- Drought $44,391 indemnity · 5 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $18,660 indemnity · 1 years
- Plant Disease $15,269 indemnity · 1 years
- All Other Causes $14,006 indemnity · 1 years
- Hail $10,002 indemnity · 1 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.