Crop-loss band · Pennsylvania
Bucks County, Pennsylvania — crop-loss band
- 2.07Low end of the filed band
- 2.63Middle of the filed band
- 3.50High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (3.60)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Bucks 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 2.07 at the low end to 3.50 at the high end, with 2.63 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2016, at 3.60. 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 | $13,034 | $45,595 | $111,634 | 25 | 25 | 3.50 |
| 2016 | $57,241 | $206,341 | $643,850 | 41 | 41 | 3.60 |
| 2017 | $36,586 | $104,985 | $341,459 | 20 | 20 | 2.87 |
| 2018 | $100,490 | $268,481 | $1,098,908 | 86 | 86 | 2.67 |
| 2019 | $95,129 | $250,101 | $1,272,666 | 61 | 61 | 2.63 |
| 2020 | $21,796 | $49,284 | $206,465 | 14 | 14 | 2.26 |
| 2021 | $33,601 | $80,391 | $283,543 | 24 | 24 | 2.39 |
| 2022 | $538,158 | $1,383,514 | $5,241,144 | 108 | 108 | 2.57 |
| 2023 | $42,887 | $88,864 | $459,801 | 18 | 18 | 2.07 |
| 2024 | $206,360 | $638,738 | $2,484,442 | 90 | 90 | 3.10 |
Commodities insured in Bucks 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.
Corn 10 years filed
- 2.06Low end of the filed band
- 2.70Middle of the filed band
- 3.38High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (3.94)
- 10Years filed
- $567,484Premium filed
- $1,591,223Indemnity paid
- $6,333,061Liability insured
- 14,721Quantity planted
- 13,415Quantity lost
- 279Policies
- 279Policies with a loss
- 2.80Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Bucks County
- Drought $945,144 indemnity · 7 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $383,860 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $127,149 indemnity · 4 years
- Wildlife $65,132 indemnity · 10 years
- Decline in Price $33,604 indemnity · 5 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $20,908 indemnity · 2 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.65Low end of the filed band
- 2.51Middle of the filed band
- 4.49High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (4.85)
- 10Years filed
- $577,798Premium filed
- $1,525,071Indemnity paid
- $5,810,851Liability insured
- 16,670Quantity planted
- 16,835Quantity lost
- 208Policies
- 208Policies with a loss
- 2.64Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Bucks County
- Drought $987,468 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $282,077 indemnity · 8 years
- Heat $121,506 indemnity · 4 years
- Wildlife $61,211 indemnity · 9 years
- Decline in Price $60,316 indemnity · 3 years
- Cold Wet Weather $9,168 indemnity · 2 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.