Crop-loss band · South Dakota
Yankton County, South Dakota — crop-loss band
- 1.12Low end of the filed band
- 1.73Middle of the filed band
- 3.62High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (4.90)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Yankton 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 1.12 at the low end to 3.62 at the high end, with 1.73 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 4.90. 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 | $258,195 | $294,269 | $1,609,019 | 61 | 61 | 1.14 |
| 2016 | $2,276,836 | $3,895,369 | $13,549,579 | 442 | 438 | 1.71 |
| 2017 | $1,927,678 | $2,161,543 | $14,186,307 | 384 | 384 | 1.12 |
| 2018 | $1,617,299 | $4,104,309 | $14,135,631 | 410 | 410 | 2.54 |
| 2019 | $4,609,309 | $22,588,770 | $23,839,281 | 957 | 957 | 4.90 |
| 2020 | $2,185,568 | $5,473,414 | $19,247,184 | 627 | 626 | 2.50 |
| 2021 | $8,159,232 | $20,188,969 | $61,976,418 | 1,032 | 1,032 | 2.47 |
| 2022 | $17,174,416 | $62,226,411 | $125,561,093 | 1,762 | 1,761 | 3.62 |
| 2023 | $9,880,186 | $13,548,863 | $81,937,836 | 1,108 | 1,106 | 1.37 |
| 2024 | $7,068,705 | $12,193,451 | $53,971,398 | 1,126 | 1,125 | 1.73 |
Commodities insured in Yankton 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.
Corn 10 years filed
- 0.76Low end of the filed band
- 1.73Middle of the filed band
- 4.12High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (4.51)
- 10Years filed
- $37,317,403Premium filed
- $102,452,714Indemnity paid
- $256,892,665Liability insured
- 332,774Quantity planted
- 370,835Quantity lost
- 3,761Policies
- 3,757Policies with a loss
- 2.75Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Yankton County
- Drought $55,970,695 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $25,163,732 indemnity · 10 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP WI Crops Only $13,397,779 indemnity · 4 years
- Hail $2,672,891 indemnity · 7 years
- Flood $2,072,817 indemnity · 8 years
- Heat $2,034,505 indemnity · 8 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.44Low end of the filed band
- 2.09Middle of the filed band
- 2.99High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (6.59)
- 10Years filed
- $17,068,204Premium filed
- $42,379,626Indemnity paid
- $148,166,792Liability insured
- 269,009Quantity planted
- 291,415Quantity lost
- 3,294Policies
- 3,289Policies with a loss
- 2.48Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Yankton County
- Drought $19,029,271 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $10,239,292 indemnity · 9 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP WI Crops Only $8,299,874 indemnity · 4 years
- Flood $1,386,898 indemnity · 8 years
- Heat $1,269,256 indemnity · 6 years
- Hail $1,197,882 indemnity · 7 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 10 years filed
- 0.35Low end of the filed band
- 1.79Middle of the filed band
- 2.54High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (4.15)
- 10Years filed
- $771,817Premium filed
- $1,843,028Indemnity paid
- $4,954,288Liability insured
- 48,537Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 854Policies
- 854Policies with a loss
- 2.39Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Yankton County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $1,843,028 indemnity · 10 years
Every county-crop the agency files in South Dakota → Buy the Yankton 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.