Crop-loss band · Pennsylvania
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania — crop-loss band
- 1.31Low end of the filed band
- 2.94Middle of the filed band
- 4.07High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (4.26)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Dauphin 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 1.31 at the low end to 4.07 at the high end, with 2.94 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2020, at 4.26. 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 | $62,808 | $94,025 | $544,502 | 29 | 29 | 1.50 |
| 2016 | $277,001 | $824,085 | $2,679,243 | 112 | 110 | 2.98 |
| 2017 | $9,211 | $14,817 | $87,276 | 10 | 10 | 1.61 |
| 2018 | $84,820 | $135,516 | $1,018,515 | 42 | 42 | 1.60 |
| 2019 | $25,192 | $81,423 | $277,204 | 36 | 36 | 3.23 |
| 2020 | $289,279 | $1,231,528 | $4,285,935 | 130 | 130 | 4.26 |
| 2021 | $9,938 | $12,989 | $158,898 | 7 | 7 | 1.31 |
| 2022 | $576,999 | $2,264,237 | $7,484,241 | 188 | 188 | 3.92 |
| 2023 | $19,097 | $77,774 | $291,018 | 17 | 17 | 4.07 |
| 2024 | $255,237 | $750,175 | $3,381,861 | 110 | 110 | 2.94 |
Commodities insured in Dauphin 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
- 0.62Low end of the filed band
- 3.04Middle of the filed band
- 4.52High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (4.99)
- 10Years filed
- $1,014,505Premium filed
- $3,261,854Indemnity paid
- $11,523,496Liability insured
- 25,019Quantity planted
- 24,788Quantity lost
- 397Policies
- 395Policies with a loss
- 3.22Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Dauphin County
- Drought $2,752,239 indemnity · 8 years
- Heat $210,655 indemnity · 5 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $159,225 indemnity · 5 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $84,717 indemnity · 4 years
- Wildlife $20,345 indemnity · 7 years
- Decline in Price $14,025 indemnity · 5 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.35Low end of the filed band
- 2.83Middle of the filed band
- 4.39High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (4.63)
- 10Years filed
- $595,077Premium filed
- $2,224,715Indemnity paid
- $8,685,197Liability insured
- 20,981Quantity planted
- 19,919Quantity lost
- 284Policies
- 284Policies with a loss
- 3.74Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Dauphin County
- Drought $1,770,882 indemnity · 7 years
- Heat $225,091 indemnity · 4 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $79,744 indemnity · 5 years
- All Other Causes $49,938 indemnity · 2 years
- Wildlife $42,819 indemnity · 6 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $21,373 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.