Crop-loss band · South Carolina
Lexington County, South Carolina — crop-loss band
- 1.20Low end of the filed band
- 2.75Middle of the filed band
- 4.05High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (4.33)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Lexington 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 1.20 at the low end to 4.05 at the high end, with 2.75 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2020, at 4.33. 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 | $71,852 | $256,476 | $489,137 | 23 | 23 | 3.57 |
| 2016 | $78,842 | $217,178 | $315,745 | 23 | 23 | 2.75 |
| 2017 | $35,328 | $76,697 | $210,669 | 6 | 6 | 2.17 |
| 2018 | $121,044 | $367,756 | $972,624 | 23 | 23 | 3.04 |
| 2019 | $142,320 | $301,007 | $849,714 | 28 | 28 | 2.12 |
| 2020 | $62,262 | $269,541 | $462,680 | 5 | 5 | 4.33 |
| 2021 | $62,321 | $74,647 | $323,099 | 4 | 4 | 1.20 |
| 2022 | $146,467 | $593,597 | $994,960 | 40 | 40 | 4.05 |
| 2023 | $52,034 | $81,723 | $268,381 | 11 | 11 | 1.57 |
| 2024 | $141,272 | $479,834 | $1,015,210 | 47 | 47 | 3.40 |
Commodities insured in Lexington 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.
Cotton 10 years filed
- 0.65Low end of the filed band
- 3.03Middle of the filed band
- 4.07High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (5.39)
- 10Years filed
- $478,980Premium filed
- $1,380,171Indemnity paid
- $3,192,704Liability insured
- 7,647Quantity planted
- 9,599Quantity lost
- 83Policies
- 83Policies with a loss
- 2.88Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Lexington County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $568,780 indemnity · 7 years
- Drought $283,752 indemnity · 6 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $169,855 indemnity · 5 years
- Heat $161,367 indemnity · 5 years
- Hurricane/Tropical Depression $160,383 indemnity · 5 years
- Wildlife $13,412 indemnity · 2 years
Corn 10 years filed
- 0.58Low end of the filed band
- 2.16Middle of the filed band
- 4.02High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (4.31)
- 10Years filed
- $434,762Premium filed
- $1,338,285Indemnity paid
- $2,709,515Liability insured
- 7,769Quantity planted
- 7,769Quantity lost
- 127Policies
- 127Policies with a loss
- 3.08Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Lexington County
- Heat $472,653 indemnity · 8 years
- Drought $455,460 indemnity · 7 years
- Tropical Storm $274,340 indemnity · 2 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $122,819 indemnity · 5 years
- Tropical Depression $4,096 indemnity · 1 years
- Wildlife $2,812 indemnity · 2 years
Every county-crop the agency files in South Carolina → Buy the Lexington 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.