Crop-loss band · Texas
Nueces County, Texas — crop-loss band
- 1.03Low end of the filed band
- 1.57Middle of the filed band
- 2.62High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (3.10)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Nueces 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 1.03 at the low end to 2.62 at the high end, with 1.57 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2024, at 3.10. 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 | $6,448,422 | $9,376,027 | $18,061,352 | 768 | 768 | 1.45 |
| 2016 | $874,134 | $901,807 | $3,991,281 | 259 | 258 | 1.03 |
| 2017 | $814,157 | $1,242,812 | $3,295,706 | 215 | 215 | 1.53 |
| 2018 | $5,248,199 | $5,606,638 | $23,983,616 | 821 | 818 | 1.07 |
| 2019 | $139,534 | $240,884 | $582,095 | 123 | 123 | 1.73 |
| 2020 | $2,360,742 | $4,828,765 | $11,141,441 | 384 | 384 | 2.05 |
| 2021 | $1,397,503 | $3,661,243 | $5,508,029 | 261 | 261 | 2.62 |
| 2022 | $22,794,541 | $48,939,574 | $95,158,812 | 1,119 | 1,119 | 2.15 |
| 2023 | $17,731,907 | $27,885,810 | $69,397,465 | 912 | 912 | 1.57 |
| 2024 | $9,179,978 | $28,482,620 | $48,716,057 | 832 | 832 | 3.10 |
Commodities insured in Nueces 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
- 0.65Low end of the filed band
- 1.94Middle of the filed band
- 3.08High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (3.12)
- 10Years filed
- $49,777,171Premium filed
- $101,070,591Indemnity paid
- $192,578,528Liability insured
- 322,979Quantity planted
- 323,004Quantity lost
- 2,131Policies
- 2,128Policies with a loss
- 2.03Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Nueces County
- Drought $68,008,295 indemnity · 8 years
- Hurricane $18,016,308 indemnity · 1 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $10,185,187 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $1,920,709 indemnity · 2 years
- Hurricane/Tropical Depression $1,353,336 indemnity · 2 years
- XX $599,519 indemnity · 2 years
Grain Sorghum 10 years filed
- 0.87Low end of the filed band
- 1.24Middle of the filed band
- 1.76High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (3.53)
- 10Years filed
- $12,227,654Premium filed
- $20,079,725Indemnity paid
- $65,203,667Liability insured
- 280,228Quantity planted
- 281,054Quantity lost
- 1,788Policies
- 1,788Policies with a loss
- 1.64Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Nueces County
- Drought $9,953,570 indemnity · 9 years
- Hurricane $5,912,761 indemnity · 1 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $2,186,195 indemnity · 7 years
- Decline in Price $1,325,771 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $488,831 indemnity · 5 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $159,686 indemnity · 4 years
Corn 9 years filed
- 0.50Low end of the filed band
- 1.01Middle of the filed band
- 2.45High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (2.45)
- 9Years filed
- $4,069,765Premium filed
- $8,486,698Indemnity paid
- $18,350,256Liability insured
- 72,850Quantity planted
- 72,035Quantity lost
- 491Policies
- 490Policies with a loss
- 2.09Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Nueces County
- Drought $5,793,424 indemnity · 7 years
- Hurricane $1,192,929 indemnity · 1 years
- Mycotoxin $752,547 indemnity · 1 years
- Decline in Price $411,185 indemnity · 6 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $215,179 indemnity · 7 years
- Hurricane/Tropical Depression $48,172 indemnity · 1 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 10 years filed
- 1.00Low end of the filed band
- 1.57Middle of the filed band
- 2.14High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (2.33)
- 10Years filed
- $914,527Premium filed
- $1,529,166Indemnity paid
- $3,703,403Liability insured
- 119,184Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 1,284Policies
- 1,284Policies with a loss
- 1.67Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Nueces County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $1,529,166 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.