Crop-loss band · Texas
Archer County, Texas — crop-loss band
- 1.31Low end of the filed band
- 1.69Middle of the filed band
- 2.54High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (2.71)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Archer County is in the series below, from 2015 to 2023. Read across those years the county’s annual loss ratio — indemnity divided by premium — runs from 1.31 at the low end to 2.54 at the high end, with 1.69 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2022, at 2.71. 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 | $743,855 | $1,400,060 | $2,193,660 | 188 | 188 | 1.88 |
| 2016 | $842,533 | $1,211,443 | $2,270,864 | 108 | 106 | 1.44 |
| 2017 | $633,294 | $830,079 | $1,790,381 | 171 | 171 | 1.31 |
| 2018 | $1,131,764 | $2,375,348 | $3,447,650 | 200 | 200 | 2.10 |
| 2019 | $1,219,303 | $2,060,661 | $3,450,510 | 203 | 203 | 1.69 |
| 2020 | $527,468 | $789,185 | $1,693,493 | 116 | 116 | 1.50 |
| 2021 | $686,530 | $1,224,203 | $2,496,148 | 183 | 183 | 1.78 |
| 2022 | $4,757,318 | $12,895,571 | $18,094,969 | 540 | 540 | 2.71 |
| 2023 | $2,327,772 | $3,138,255 | $9,642,532 | 501 | 501 | 1.35 |
| 2024 | $915,702 | $2,323,122 | $3,153,451 | 189 | 189 | 2.54 |
Commodities insured in Archer County
5 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.
Wheat 10 years filed
- 1.09Low end of the filed band
- 1.79Middle of the filed band
- 2.41High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (4.34)
- 10Years filed
- $5,468,014Premium filed
- $12,808,210Indemnity paid
- $15,535,673Liability insured
- 162,058Quantity planted
- 161,911Quantity lost
- 607Policies
- 605Policies with a loss
- 2.34Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Archer County
- Drought $7,746,255 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $2,543,072 indemnity · 9 years
- Hail $1,630,834 indemnity · 7 years
- Freeze $236,100 indemnity · 3 years
- Hot Wind $230,179 indemnity · 4 years
- Heat $174,609 indemnity · 2 years
Annual Forage 9 years filed
- 0.71Low end of the filed band
- 1.75Middle of the filed band
- 2.27High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (2.27)
- 9Years filed
- $3,743,901Premium filed
- $6,311,451Indemnity paid
- $16,616,963Liability insured
- 60,548Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 372Policies
- 372Policies with a loss
- 1.69Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Archer County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $6,311,451 indemnity · 9 years
Cotton 9 years filed
- 1.26Low end of the filed band
- 2.64Middle of the filed band
- 2.87High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (2.87)
- 9Years filed
- $1,884,429Premium filed
- $5,116,328Indemnity paid
- $5,448,548Liability insured
- 19,786Quantity planted
- 32,858Quantity lost
- 59Policies
- 59Policies with a loss
- 2.72Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Archer County
- Drought $3,686,322 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $1,124,894 indemnity · 3 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $186,721 indemnity · 3 years
- Hail $50,673 indemnity · 1 years
- Heat $42,825 indemnity · 1 years
- Hot Wind $12,809 indemnity · 1 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 10 years filed
- 0.73Low end of the filed band
- 1.33Middle of the filed band
- 1.97High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (2.50)
- 10Years filed
- $2,184,979Premium filed
- $3,255,050Indemnity paid
- $9,802,050Liability insured
- 301,243Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 1,320Policies
- 1,320Policies with a loss
- 1.49Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Archer County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $3,255,050 indemnity · 10 years
Grain Sorghum 7 years filed
- 1.16Low end of the filed band
- 1.53Middle of the filed band
- 1.86High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (1.86)
- 7Years filed
- $504,216Premium filed
- $756,888Indemnity paid
- $830,424Liability insured
- 6,941Quantity planted
- 6,942Quantity lost
- 41Policies
- 41Policies with a loss
- 1.50Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Archer County
- Drought $631,276 indemnity · 7 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $62,055 indemnity · 3 years
- Wildlife $20,090 indemnity · 2 years
- Decline in Price $15,885 indemnity · 1 years
- Hail $14,038 indemnity · 1 years
- Heat $13,544 indemnity · 1 years
Every county-crop the agency files in Texas → Buy the Archer 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.