Crop-loss band · Virginia
Sussex County, Virginia — crop-loss band
- 0.55Low end of the filed band
- 1.53Middle of the filed band
- 2.71High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (3.12)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Sussex 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 0.55 at the low end to 2.71 at the high end, with 1.53 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 3.12. 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 | $661,921 | $1,250,360 | $4,055,643 | 168 | 168 | 1.89 |
| 2016 | $466,827 | $933,342 | $3,171,929 | 112 | 111 | 2.00 |
| 2017 | $187,087 | $202,193 | $1,152,237 | 35 | 35 | 1.08 |
| 2018 | $290,223 | $554,480 | $2,328,360 | 72 | 72 | 1.91 |
| 2019 | $309,905 | $967,005 | $2,267,947 | 98 | 98 | 3.12 |
| 2020 | $451,350 | $1,224,488 | $3,718,388 | 114 | 114 | 2.71 |
| 2021 | $61,234 | $33,582 | $403,238 | 24 | 24 | 0.55 |
| 2022 | $941,786 | $1,105,409 | $4,688,136 | 70 | 70 | 1.17 |
| 2023 | $425,888 | $627,273 | $2,911,922 | 37 | 37 | 1.47 |
| 2024 | $945,296 | $1,443,280 | $5,823,012 | 164 | 164 | 1.53 |
Commodities insured in Sussex 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.
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.43Low end of the filed band
- 1.38Middle of the filed band
- 1.84High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (2.90)
- 10Years filed
- $2,472,927Premium filed
- $3,923,550Indemnity paid
- $15,457,298Liability insured
- 57,358Quantity planted
- 51,392Quantity lost
- 518Policies
- 517Policies with a loss
- 1.59Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Sussex County
- Drought $2,485,596 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,051,540 indemnity · 10 years
- Decline in Price $135,053 indemnity · 4 years
- Heat $99,560 indemnity · 4 years
- XX $78,813 indemnity · 6 years
- Wildlife $48,856 indemnity · 6 years
Corn 9 years filed
- 0.71Low end of the filed band
- 2.53Middle of the filed band
- 5.30High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (5.30)
- 9Years filed
- $900,095Premium filed
- $2,228,784Indemnity paid
- $6,692,614Liability insured
- 13,999Quantity planted
- 13,821Quantity lost
- 160Policies
- 160Policies with a loss
- 2.48Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Sussex County
- Drought $1,549,615 indemnity · 7 years
- Heat $248,724 indemnity · 3 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $207,151 indemnity · 8 years
- All Other Causes $68,896 indemnity · 1 years
- Decline in Price $58,488 indemnity · 5 years
- Hurricane/Tropical Depression $49,040 indemnity · 2 years
Cotton 10 years filed
- 0.62Low end of the filed band
- 2.97Middle of the filed band
- 4.88High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (5.70)
- 10Years filed
- $1,368,495Premium filed
- $2,189,078Indemnity paid
- $8,370,900Liability insured
- 12,006Quantity planted
- 26,138Quantity lost
- 216Policies
- 216Policies with a loss
- 1.60Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Sussex County
- Drought $1,120,307 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $458,449 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $442,085 indemnity · 4 years
- Decline in Price $79,596 indemnity · 5 years
- Cold Wet Weather $34,087 indemnity · 1 years
- XX $28,082 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.