Crop-loss band · Wisconsin
Columbia County, Wisconsin — crop-loss band
- 1.58Low end of the filed band
- 2.05Middle of the filed band
- 3.02High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (4.66)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Columbia 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 1.58 at the low end to 3.02 at the high end, with 2.05 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 4.66. 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 | $586,584 | $1,235,097 | $4,336,790 | 246 | 244 | 2.11 |
| 2016 | $272,198 | $496,913 | $1,646,832 | 97 | 97 | 1.83 |
| 2017 | $552,492 | $1,669,246 | $4,228,392 | 283 | 283 | 3.02 |
| 2018 | $654,496 | $1,827,442 | $5,700,793 | 348 | 348 | 2.79 |
| 2019 | $831,969 | $3,880,980 | $7,087,295 | 482 | 482 | 4.66 |
| 2020 | $522,239 | $1,404,559 | $5,236,239 | 261 | 261 | 2.69 |
| 2021 | $599,822 | $949,328 | $5,402,666 | 164 | 164 | 1.58 |
| 2022 | $459,930 | $923,421 | $4,128,075 | 123 | 123 | 2.01 |
| 2023 | $2,781,825 | $5,694,671 | $26,589,607 | 408 | 408 | 2.05 |
| 2024 | $2,841,219 | $5,363,219 | $25,432,138 | 544 | 544 | 1.89 |
Commodities insured in Columbia 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.
Corn 10 years filed
- 1.74Low end of the filed band
- 2.04Middle of the filed band
- 3.40High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (5.03)
- 10Years filed
- $6,745,242Premium filed
- $16,195,676Indemnity paid
- $61,883,162Liability insured
- 98,674Quantity planted
- 93,292Quantity lost
- 1,571Policies
- 1,570Policies with a loss
- 2.40Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Columbia County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $8,003,839 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $4,664,341 indemnity · 9 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $1,790,233 indemnity · 3 years
- Decline in Price $567,984 indemnity · 8 years
- Cold Wet Weather $554,295 indemnity · 8 years
- Wildlife $188,211 indemnity · 10 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.15Low end of the filed band
- 2.03Middle of the filed band
- 2.62High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (3.80)
- 10Years filed
- $3,032,102Premium filed
- $6,317,882Indemnity paid
- $25,338,346Liability insured
- 59,047Quantity planted
- 55,136Quantity lost
- 1,087Policies
- 1,086Policies with a loss
- 2.08Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Columbia County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,400,390 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $1,593,047 indemnity · 8 years
- Cold Wet Weather $559,972 indemnity · 6 years
- Decline in Price $268,025 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/PACE Crops Only $175,104 indemnity · 1 years
- Wildlife $103,778 indemnity · 10 years
Wheat 10 years filed
- 1.51Low end of the filed band
- 2.40Middle of the filed band
- 4.09High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (4.48)
- 10Years filed
- $325,430Premium filed
- $931,318Indemnity paid
- $2,567,319Liability insured
- 8,400Quantity planted
- 8,403Quantity lost
- 298Policies
- 298Policies with a loss
- 2.86Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Columbia County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $287,151 indemnity · 8 years
- Drought $229,127 indemnity · 7 years
- Cold Wet Weather $198,525 indemnity · 10 years
- Cold Winter $112,131 indemnity · 8 years
- Mycotoxin $45,022 indemnity · 3 years
- Decline in Price $37,364 indemnity · 8 years
Every county-crop the agency files in Wisconsin → Buy the Columbia County dossier →
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.