Crop-loss band · Pennsylvania
Butler County, Pennsylvania — crop-loss band
- 0.93Low end of the filed band
- 1.48Middle of the filed band
- 2.19High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (2.39)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Butler 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 0.93 at the low end to 2.19 at the high end, with 1.48 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2024, at 2.39. 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 | $763,348 | $1,104,410 | $4,793,517 | 155 | 153 | 1.45 |
| 2016 | $379,171 | $352,543 | $2,431,695 | 136 | 136 | 0.93 |
| 2017 | $516,171 | $762,679 | $3,592,166 | 103 | 103 | 1.48 |
| 2018 | $419,308 | $645,070 | $2,854,068 | 79 | 77 | 1.54 |
| 2019 | $651,264 | $995,465 | $4,040,348 | 129 | 129 | 1.53 |
| 2020 | $507,003 | $1,108,764 | $3,896,769 | 111 | 111 | 2.19 |
| 2021 | $311,167 | $315,136 | $2,322,251 | 77 | 77 | 1.01 |
| 2022 | $468,901 | $551,540 | $3,285,094 | 91 | 91 | 1.18 |
| 2023 | $194,243 | $399,561 | $1,628,041 | 92 | 92 | 2.06 |
| 2024 | $513,361 | $1,227,746 | $4,651,340 | 139 | 139 | 2.39 |
Commodities insured in Butler 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
- 0.81Low end of the filed band
- 1.90Middle of the filed band
- 2.46High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (2.59)
- 10Years filed
- $1,883,635Premium filed
- $3,485,626Indemnity paid
- $14,522,114Liability insured
- 40,719Quantity planted
- 36,904Quantity lost
- 344Policies
- 341Policies with a loss
- 1.85Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Butler County
- Drought $1,607,234 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,143,355 indemnity · 8 years
- Wildlife $463,242 indemnity · 9 years
- Decline in Price $120,917 indemnity · 7 years
- Insects $42,550 indemnity · 6 years
- Heat $39,090 indemnity · 1 years
Corn 10 years filed
- 0.16Low end of the filed band
- 1.05Middle of the filed band
- 2.27High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (2.48)
- 10Years filed
- $2,376,594Premium filed
- $2,929,646Indemnity paid
- $14,104,954Liability insured
- 33,491Quantity planted
- 32,208Quantity lost
- 405Policies
- 404Policies with a loss
- 1.23Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Butler County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,479,404 indemnity · 7 years
- Drought $1,117,072 indemnity · 8 years
- Decline in Price $180,505 indemnity · 7 years
- Wildlife $97,393 indemnity · 9 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $32,684 indemnity · 3 years
- Cold Winter $5,230 indemnity · 1 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 10 years filed
- 0.74Low end of the filed band
- 1.80Middle of the filed band
- 2.93High end of the filed band
- 2017Worst year filed (3.10)
- 10Years filed
- $463,708Premium filed
- $1,047,642Indemnity paid
- $4,868,221Liability insured
- 10,044Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 363Policies
- 363Policies with a loss
- 2.26Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Butler County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $1,047,642 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.