Crop-loss band · Texas
Childress County, Texas — crop-loss band
- 1.25Low end of the filed band
- 2.21Middle of the filed band
- 2.61High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (2.90)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Childress 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 1.25 at the low end to 2.61 at the high end, with 2.21 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2022, at 2.90. 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 | $1,793,731 | $2,733,896 | $6,183,522 | 402 | 401 | 1.52 |
| 2016 | $559,426 | $1,234,620 | $1,965,784 | 149 | 146 | 2.21 |
| 2017 | $2,300,400 | $5,696,708 | $8,185,134 | 336 | 335 | 2.48 |
| 2018 | $4,376,033 | $9,837,129 | $15,042,139 | 563 | 563 | 2.25 |
| 2019 | $2,229,949 | $2,787,464 | $7,515,262 | 341 | 341 | 1.25 |
| 2020 | $3,489,411 | $7,340,169 | $12,861,028 | 466 | 466 | 2.10 |
| 2021 | $3,937,181 | $6,234,104 | $12,620,093 | 386 | 386 | 1.58 |
| 2022 | $12,532,706 | $36,362,280 | $40,249,702 | 835 | 835 | 2.90 |
| 2023 | $8,510,845 | $19,987,799 | $26,808,519 | 761 | 760 | 2.35 |
| 2024 | $6,292,410 | $16,404,785 | $20,415,409 | 595 | 595 | 2.61 |
Commodities insured in Childress County
4 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
- 1.29Low end of the filed band
- 2.22Middle of the filed band
- 2.70High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (2.91)
- 10Years filed
- $39,029,398Premium filed
- $95,598,899Indemnity paid
- $127,780,459Liability insured
- 314,940Quantity planted
- 494,069Quantity lost
- 3,242Policies
- 3,238Policies with a loss
- 2.45Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Childress County
- Drought $40,814,651 indemnity · 10 years
- Hot Wind $17,574,506 indemnity · 10 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $17,374,933 indemnity · 10 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $6,771,603 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $3,986,532 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,580,043 indemnity · 8 years
Wheat 10 years filed
- 0.58Low end of the filed band
- 1.53Middle of the filed band
- 2.65High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (4.21)
- 10Years filed
- $2,978,091Premium filed
- $6,862,563Indemnity paid
- $8,724,658Liability insured
- 104,966Quantity planted
- 105,019Quantity lost
- 674Policies
- 673Policies with a loss
- 2.30Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Childress County
- Drought $5,185,505 indemnity · 10 years
- Hail $632,085 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $439,084 indemnity · 5 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $200,935 indemnity · 7 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $153,499 indemnity · 5 years
- Freeze $107,057 indemnity · 3 years
Annual Forage 8 years filed
- 0.50Low end of the filed band
- 1.15Middle of the filed band
- 2.38High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (2.38)
- 8Years filed
- $2,764,433Premium filed
- $4,228,715Indemnity paid
- $10,290,129Liability insured
- 39,052Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 289Policies
- 289Policies with a loss
- 1.53Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Childress County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $4,228,715 indemnity · 8 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 10 years filed
- 0.26Low end of the filed band
- 1.26Middle of the filed band
- 2.41High end of the filed band
- 2017Worst year filed (3.06)
- 10Years filed
- $1,250,170Premium filed
- $1,928,777Indemnity paid
- $5,051,346Liability insured
- 210,825Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 629Policies
- 628Policies with a loss
- 1.54Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Childress County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $1,928,777 indemnity · 10 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.