Crop-loss band · Texas
Upton County, Texas — crop-loss band
- 1.26Low end of the filed band
- 1.61Middle of the filed band
- 2.21High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (2.35)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Upton 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 1.26 at the low end to 2.21 at the high end, with 1.61 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2021, at 2.35. 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 | $240,795 | $304,027 | $834,905 | 22 | 22 | 1.26 |
| 2016 | $550,230 | $853,898 | $1,567,797 | 48 | 48 | 1.55 |
| 2017 | $862,321 | $1,384,780 | $2,140,187 | 53 | 53 | 1.61 |
| 2018 | $2,176,971 | $4,821,646 | $5,499,716 | 113 | 113 | 2.21 |
| 2019 | $1,246,078 | $1,819,811 | $3,457,811 | 62 | 62 | 1.46 |
| 2020 | $1,442,312 | $3,058,225 | $3,616,936 | 94 | 94 | 2.12 |
| 2021 | $651,743 | $1,533,406 | $2,024,114 | 66 | 66 | 2.35 |
| 2022 | $3,616,793 | $7,572,080 | $8,234,653 | 154 | 154 | 2.09 |
| 2023 | $2,888,820 | $5,305,944 | $7,059,733 | 173 | 173 | 1.84 |
| 2024 | $2,836,393 | $4,482,434 | $6,912,664 | 173 | 173 | 1.58 |
Commodities insured in Upton 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
- 0.10Low end of the filed band
- 1.71Middle of the filed band
- 2.21High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (2.52)
- 10Years filed
- $11,382,611Premium filed
- $21,046,439Indemnity paid
- $24,429,678Liability insured
- 99,991Quantity planted
- 139,394Quantity lost
- 419Policies
- 419Policies with a loss
- 1.85Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Upton County
- Drought $15,455,415 indemnity · 10 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $2,142,664 indemnity · 6 years
- Hot Wind $1,715,505 indemnity · 6 years
- Heat $1,008,452 indemnity · 7 years
- Freeze $208,782 indemnity · 1 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $169,627 indemnity · 3 years
Pasture,Rangeland,Forage 10 years filed
- 1.14Low end of the filed band
- 2.01Middle of the filed band
- 2.55High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (2.62)
- 10Years filed
- $3,629,510Premium filed
- $7,027,173Indemnity paid
- $13,648,120Liability insured
- 849,516Quantity planted
- 0Quantity lost
- 452Policies
- 452Policies with a loss
- 1.94Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Upton County
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $7,027,173 indemnity · 10 years
Wheat 10 years filed
- 0.33Low end of the filed band
- 1.81Middle of the filed band
- 3.10High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (3.13)
- 10Years filed
- $1,500,335Premium filed
- $3,062,639Indemnity paid
- $3,270,718Liability insured
- 34,584Quantity planted
- 34,586Quantity lost
- 87Policies
- 87Policies with a loss
- 2.04Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Upton County
- Drought $2,685,793 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $235,266 indemnity · 2 years
- Hail $53,744 indemnity · 2 years
- Hot Wind $52,333 indemnity · 2 years
- Wildlife $21,736 indemnity · 3 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $13,768 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.