Crop-loss band · Texas
Dickens County, Texas — crop-loss band
- 1.13Low end of the filed band
- 2.26Middle of the filed band
- 3.26High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (3.68)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Dickens 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 1.13 at the low end to 3.26 at the high end, with 2.26 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2020, at 3.68. 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 | $550,212 | $667,490 | $1,692,512 | 139 | 139 | 1.21 |
| 2016 | $102,651 | $172,842 | $442,670 | 39 | 39 | 1.68 |
| 2017 | $292,320 | $683,517 | $1,332,133 | 98 | 98 | 2.34 |
| 2018 | $1,442,662 | $2,895,828 | $6,961,592 | 294 | 294 | 2.01 |
| 2019 | $1,471,678 | $3,414,395 | $8,132,692 | 268 | 268 | 2.32 |
| 2020 | $1,620,019 | $5,957,399 | $8,467,533 | 344 | 344 | 3.68 |
| 2021 | $1,050,590 | $1,190,383 | $4,105,436 | 238 | 238 | 1.13 |
| 2022 | $4,462,725 | $14,543,959 | $17,494,742 | 520 | 520 | 3.26 |
| 2023 | $5,149,200 | $11,643,516 | $18,420,316 | 782 | 782 | 2.26 |
| 2024 | $3,143,025 | $8,568,997 | $11,456,317 | 472 | 472 | 2.73 |
Commodities insured in Dickens 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 10 years filed
- 0.98Low end of the filed band
- 2.38Middle of the filed band
- 3.51High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (4.09)
- 10Years filed
- $14,599,393Premium filed
- $42,543,168Indemnity paid
- $60,674,803Liability insured
- 198,700Quantity planted
- 231,548Quantity lost
- 1,861Policies
- 1,861Policies with a loss
- 2.91Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Dickens County
- Drought $26,917,849 indemnity · 10 years
- Hot Wind $6,493,536 indemnity · 10 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $2,934,570 indemnity · 6 years
- Heat $2,139,121 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,000,686 indemnity · 6 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $993,243 indemnity · 6 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 10 years filed
- 0.87Low end of the filed band
- 1.47Middle of the filed band
- 2.28High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (2.40)
- 10Years filed
- $2,378,618Premium filed
- $4,025,432Indemnity paid
- $9,916,930Liability insured
- 630,742Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 987Policies
- 987Policies with a loss
- 1.69Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Dickens County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $4,025,432 indemnity · 10 years
Annual Forage 9 years filed
- 0.24Low end of the filed band
- 1.50Middle of the filed band
- 3.39High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (3.39)
- 9Years filed
- $2,307,071Premium filed
- $3,169,726Indemnity paid
- $7,914,210Liability insured
- 29,087Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 346Policies
- 346Policies with a loss
- 1.37Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Dickens County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $3,169,726 indemnity · 9 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.