Crop-loss band · Texas
Dallas County, Texas — crop-loss band
- 1.73Low end of the filed band
- 2.49Middle of the filed band
- 4.49High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (4.70)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Dallas 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 1.73 at the low end to 4.49 at the high end, with 2.49 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2018, at 4.70. 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 | $151,744 | $486,544 | $718,598 | 25 | 25 | 3.21 |
| 2016 | $421,825 | $727,781 | $2,007,074 | 36 | 36 | 1.73 |
| 2017 | $18,390 | $39,993 | $58,314 | 5 | 5 | 2.17 |
| 2018 | $161,375 | $758,441 | $1,405,396 | 14 | 14 | 4.70 |
| 2019 | $301,061 | $748,264 | $1,535,057 | 32 | 32 | 2.49 |
| 2020 | $55,404 | $110,513 | $120,719 | 5 | 5 | 1.99 |
| 2021 | $241,173 | $1,083,424 | $1,359,515 | 20 | 20 | 4.49 |
| 2022 | $503,460 | $1,792,887 | $2,529,264 | 13 | 13 | 3.56 |
| 2023 | $244,518 | $547,935 | $818,351 | 10 | 10 | 2.24 |
| 2024 | $563,803 | $1,811,602 | $1,941,253 | 27 | 27 | 3.21 |
Commodities insured in Dallas 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.
Cotton 7 years filed
- 1.36Low end of the filed band
- 5.08Middle of the filed band
- 8.79High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (8.79)
- 7Years filed
- $834,299Premium filed
- $4,111,792Indemnity paid
- $5,063,033Liability insured
- 14,164Quantity planted
- 17,174Quantity lost
- 33Policies
- 33Policies with a loss
- 4.93Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Dallas County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $2,627,892 indemnity · 6 years
- Drought $767,879 indemnity · 3 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP WI Crops Only $398,805 indemnity · 2 years
- Flood $317,216 indemnity · 1 years
Corn 9 years filed
- 1.12Low end of the filed band
- 1.97Middle of the filed band
- 3.28High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (3.28)
- 9Years filed
- $982,463Premium filed
- $2,119,655Indemnity paid
- $3,960,821Liability insured
- 15,879Quantity planted
- 15,640Quantity lost
- 55Policies
- 55Policies with a loss
- 2.16Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Dallas County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,330,974 indemnity · 7 years
- Drought $702,843 indemnity · 4 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/PACE Crops Only $49,671 indemnity · 1 years
- Wildlife $33,644 indemnity · 1 years
- Decline in Price $2,523 indemnity · 3 years
Wheat 10 years filed
- 0.73Low end of the filed band
- 2.17Middle of the filed band
- 3.18High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (3.65)
- 10Years filed
- $845,991Premium filed
- $1,875,937Indemnity paid
- $3,469,687Liability insured
- 23,237Quantity planted
- 23,245Quantity lost
- 99Policies
- 99Policies with a loss
- 2.22Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Dallas County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,701,211 indemnity · 8 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $62,529 indemnity · 2 years
- Drought $62,028 indemnity · 3 years
- Decline in Price $21,295 indemnity · 2 years
- Hail $14,712 indemnity · 1 years
- Freeze $13,881 indemnity · 1 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.