Crop-loss band · Pennsylvania
Blair County, Pennsylvania — crop-loss band
- 0.67Low end of the filed band
- 2.29Middle of the filed band
- 2.86High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (3.61)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Blair 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 0.67 at the low end to 2.86 at the high end, with 2.29 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2015, at 3.61. 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 | $153,634 | $554,087 | $991,253 | 19 | 19 | 3.61 |
| 2016 | $1,190,920 | $3,162,181 | $6,868,510 | 132 | 128 | 2.66 |
| 2017 | $193,214 | $529,977 | $1,231,741 | 28 | 28 | 2.74 |
| 2018 | $182,032 | $331,555 | $1,387,662 | 55 | 55 | 1.82 |
| 2019 | $85,919 | $204,725 | $573,370 | 23 | 23 | 2.38 |
| 2020 | $930,902 | $2,660,731 | $7,471,357 | 139 | 137 | 2.86 |
| 2021 | $144,321 | $96,454 | $1,006,259 | 17 | 17 | 0.67 |
| 2022 | $89,371 | $104,288 | $541,005 | 13 | 13 | 1.17 |
| 2023 | $186,050 | $426,021 | $798,911 | 9 | 9 | 2.29 |
| 2024 | $662,796 | $1,312,733 | $4,215,785 | 102 | 102 | 1.98 |
Commodities insured in Blair 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
- 0.23Low end of the filed band
- 1.11Middle of the filed band
- 2.54High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (2.65)
- 10Years filed
- $3,010,111Premium filed
- $6,405,924Indemnity paid
- $19,856,768Liability insured
- 45,672Quantity planted
- 43,669Quantity lost
- 387Policies
- 381Policies with a loss
- 2.13Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Blair County
- Drought $5,447,095 indemnity · 7 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $430,520 indemnity · 9 years
- Decline in Price $192,343 indemnity · 5 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP/HIP WI Crops Only $165,353 indemnity · 2 years
- Heat $97,183 indemnity · 4 years
- XX $37,924 indemnity · 5 years
All Other Crops 9 years filed
- 1.41Low end of the filed band
- 3.37Middle of the filed band
- 6.04High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (6.04)
- 9Years filed
- $540,782Premium filed
- $2,183,850Indemnity paid
- $2,360,195Liability insured
- 588Quantity planted
- 588Quantity lost
- 34Policies
- 34Policies with a loss
- 4.04Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Blair County
- Hail $980,687 indemnity · 4 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $435,330 indemnity · 4 years
- Excess Sun $326,124 indemnity · 1 years
- Freeze $266,656 indemnity · 2 years
- Flood $80,204 indemnity · 1 years
- Drought $60,578 indemnity · 6 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.20Low end of the filed band
- 3.31Middle of the filed band
- 4.01High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (4.15)
- 10Years filed
- $268,266Premium filed
- $792,978Indemnity paid
- $2,868,890Liability insured
- 7,544Quantity planted
- 7,211Quantity lost
- 116Policies
- 116Policies with a loss
- 2.96Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Blair County
- Drought $444,879 indemnity · 5 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $229,285 indemnity · 6 years
- Wildlife $23,140 indemnity · 3 years
- All Other Causes $21,849 indemnity · 1 years
- Decline in Price $20,106 indemnity · 3 years
- Heat $16,353 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.