Crop-loss band · South Carolina
Kershaw County, South Carolina — crop-loss band
- 1.84Low end of the filed band
- 2.93Middle of the filed band
- 3.65High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (3.85)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Kershaw 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 1.84 at the low end to 3.65 at the high end, with 2.93 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2020, at 3.85. 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 | $93,020 | $339,096 | $483,502 | 43 | 43 | 3.65 |
| 2016 | $158,222 | $542,608 | $1,034,147 | 41 | 41 | 3.43 |
| 2017 | $33,731 | $76,625 | $101,052 | 5 | 5 | 2.27 |
| 2018 | $78,890 | $231,421 | $319,172 | 30 | 30 | 2.93 |
| 2019 | $58,231 | $114,267 | $305,250 | 41 | 41 | 1.96 |
| 2020 | $62,432 | $240,442 | $422,346 | 25 | 25 | 3.85 |
| 2021 | $17,922 | $53,545 | $66,462 | 16 | 16 | 2.99 |
| 2022 | $109,923 | $247,011 | $760,559 | 36 | 36 | 2.25 |
| 2023 | $166,276 | $305,861 | $849,990 | 24 | 24 | 1.84 |
| 2024 | $229,770 | $756,240 | $1,411,298 | 45 | 45 | 3.29 |
Commodities insured in Kershaw 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.
All Other Crops 10 years filed
- 0.55Low end of the filed band
- 1.98Middle of the filed band
- 3.43High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (3.65)
- 10Years filed
- $373,849Premium filed
- $1,179,254Indemnity paid
- $2,101,318Liability insured
- 11,360Quantity planted
- 11,150Quantity lost
- 161Policies
- 161Policies with a loss
- 3.15Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Kershaw County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $432,166 indemnity · 4 years
- Drought $251,262 indemnity · 4 years
- Hurricane/Tropical Depression $210,489 indemnity · 3 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $121,722 indemnity · 8 years
- Heat $74,446 indemnity · 2 years
- Wildlife $38,093 indemnity · 3 years
Corn 6 years filed
- 1.82Low end of the filed band
- 3.14Middle of the filed band
- 4.23High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (4.23)
- 6Years filed
- $329,585Premium filed
- $1,035,380Indemnity paid
- $2,471,764Liability insured
- 5,425Quantity planted
- 5,425Quantity lost
- 74Policies
- 74Policies with a loss
- 3.14Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Kershaw County
- Drought $352,325 indemnity · 5 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $232,593 indemnity · 4 years
- Heat $150,196 indemnity · 4 years
- Flood $111,384 indemnity · 1 years
- Hurricane/Tropical Depression $71,765 indemnity · 5 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $59,424 indemnity · 2 years
Soybeans 7 years filed
- 1.84Low end of the filed band
- 2.15Middle of the filed band
- 2.68High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (2.68)
- 7Years filed
- $304,983Premium filed
- $692,482Indemnity paid
- $1,180,696Liability insured
- 6,211Quantity planted
- 6,256Quantity lost
- 71Policies
- 71Policies with a loss
- 2.27Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Kershaw County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $299,905 indemnity · 6 years
- Drought $259,714 indemnity · 5 years
- Wildlife $54,147 indemnity · 6 years
- Heat $49,608 indemnity · 3 years
- Hurricane/Tropical Depression $22,951 indemnity · 3 years
- All Other Causes $2,745 indemnity · 1 years
Every county-crop the agency files in South Carolina → Buy the Kershaw County dossier →
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.