Crop-loss band · Wisconsin
Buffalo County, Wisconsin — crop-loss band
- 1.34Low end of the filed band
- 1.97Middle of the filed band
- 3.04High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (3.72)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Buffalo 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 1.34 at the low end to 3.04 at the high end, with 1.97 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 3.72. 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 | $276,807 | $370,744 | $3,088,243 | 91 | 91 | 1.34 |
| 2016 | $96,930 | $156,514 | $1,167,355 | 32 | 32 | 1.61 |
| 2017 | $552,178 | $1,087,082 | $5,867,549 | 160 | 160 | 1.97 |
| 2018 | $693,719 | $1,366,239 | $8,198,665 | 168 | 168 | 1.97 |
| 2019 | $450,624 | $1,674,459 | $4,722,166 | 177 | 177 | 3.72 |
| 2020 | $211,327 | $629,634 | $2,364,021 | 66 | 66 | 2.98 |
| 2021 | $119,443 | $316,287 | $1,038,983 | 23 | 23 | 2.65 |
| 2022 | $209,132 | $634,709 | $2,007,285 | 49 | 49 | 3.04 |
| 2023 | $931,451 | $2,296,871 | $8,997,130 | 154 | 154 | 2.47 |
| 2024 | $957,705 | $1,527,036 | $8,489,296 | 161 | 161 | 1.59 |
Commodities insured in Buffalo County
2 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 10 years filed
- 1.35Low end of the filed band
- 2.36Middle of the filed band
- 3.89High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (4.93)
- 10Years filed
- $3,054,451Premium filed
- $7,422,580Indemnity paid
- $31,369,028Liability insured
- 52,826Quantity planted
- 52,036Quantity lost
- 676Policies
- 676Policies with a loss
- 2.43Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Buffalo County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $2,660,619 indemnity · 8 years
- Drought $2,123,362 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX Crops Only $677,446 indemnity · 3 years
- Cold Wet Weather $568,540 indemnity · 8 years
- Decline in Price $511,458 indemnity · 8 years
- Hail $374,661 indemnity · 5 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.28Low end of the filed band
- 1.99Middle of the filed band
- 3.65High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (6.80)
- 10Years filed
- $1,444,865Premium filed
- $2,636,995Indemnity paid
- $14,571,665Liability insured
- 35,932Quantity planted
- 36,024Quantity lost
- 405Policies
- 405Policies with a loss
- 1.83Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Buffalo County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,091,194 indemnity · 9 years
- Drought $739,309 indemnity · 7 years
- Cold Wet Weather $287,334 indemnity · 5 years
- Decline in Price $273,025 indemnity · 6 years
- Hail $113,460 indemnity · 3 years
- Heat $38,370 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.