Crop-loss band · Texas
Travis County, Texas — crop-loss band
- 1.38Low end of the filed band
- 1.92Middle of the filed band
- 2.10High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (2.40)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Travis 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 1.38 at the low end to 2.10 at the high end, with 1.92 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2024, at 2.40. 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 | $536,089 | $1,111,059 | $3,004,627 | 152 | 152 | 2.07 |
| 2016 | $664,822 | $1,238,646 | $3,450,859 | 234 | 231 | 1.86 |
| 2017 | $272,800 | $572,398 | $1,498,931 | 140 | 139 | 2.10 |
| 2018 | $496,883 | $1,041,927 | $2,926,516 | 204 | 204 | 2.10 |
| 2019 | $220,476 | $423,016 | $1,054,858 | 132 | 132 | 1.92 |
| 2020 | $141,932 | $211,726 | $619,527 | 118 | 118 | 1.49 |
| 2021 | $177,496 | $341,407 | $915,287 | 119 | 119 | 1.92 |
| 2022 | $547,897 | $757,673 | $2,900,547 | 211 | 211 | 1.38 |
| 2023 | $219,999 | $436,692 | $1,104,581 | 184 | 184 | 1.99 |
| 2024 | $144,659 | $346,729 | $654,269 | 125 | 125 | 2.40 |
Commodities insured in Travis 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.
Corn 9 years filed
- 0.88Low end of the filed band
- 1.78Middle of the filed band
- 2.28High end of the filed band
- 2017Worst year filed (2.28)
- 9Years filed
- $1,719,592Premium filed
- $2,942,955Indemnity paid
- $9,234,753Liability insured
- 41,589Quantity planted
- 42,622Quantity lost
- 393Policies
- 393Policies with a loss
- 1.71Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Travis County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,500,992 indemnity · 7 years
- Drought $783,658 indemnity · 7 years
- Hail $307,442 indemnity · 2 years
- Mycotoxin $146,580 indemnity · 1 years
- Decline in Price $107,041 indemnity · 6 years
- Wildlife $33,145 indemnity · 6 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 10 years filed
- 1.13Low end of the filed band
- 1.87Middle of the filed band
- 2.19High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (2.42)
- 10Years filed
- $956,799Premium filed
- $1,809,033Indemnity paid
- $4,503,336Liability insured
- 76,446Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 822Policies
- 822Policies with a loss
- 1.89Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Travis County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $1,809,033 indemnity · 10 years
Cotton 10 years filed
- 1.33Low end of the filed band
- 2.04Middle of the filed band
- 3.05High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (3.28)
- 10Years filed
- $353,215Premium filed
- $912,580Indemnity paid
- $1,950,552Liability insured
- 6,474Quantity planted
- 7,722Quantity lost
- 183Policies
- 182Policies with a loss
- 2.58Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Travis County
- Drought $370,246 indemnity · 5 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $229,195 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $149,115 indemnity · 6 years
- Hail $143,564 indemnity · 1 years
- Heat $14,161 indemnity · 1 years
- Decline in Price $5,807 indemnity · 2 years
Grain Sorghum 10 years filed
- 0.81Low end of the filed band
- 1.83Middle of the filed band
- 3.83High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (4.06)
- 10Years filed
- $393,447Premium filed
- $816,705Indemnity paid
- $2,441,361Liability insured
- 13,577Quantity planted
- 13,720Quantity lost
- 221Policies
- 218Policies with a loss
- 2.08Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Travis County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $555,656 indemnity · 5 years
- Drought $107,477 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP WI Crops Only $54,625 indemnity · 2 years
- Heat $38,815 indemnity · 1 years
- Decline in Price $31,095 indemnity · 5 years
- Hail $30,093 indemnity · 2 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.