Crop Insurance
South Dakota
Indemnities by County in South Dakota
| Indemnities | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| County | Indemnities 1995-2018 | Policies | |
| Brown County, South Dakota | $565,586,671 | 96,295 | |
| Spink County, South Dakota | $329,808,972 | 92,249 | |
| Hutchinson County, South Dakota | $312,692,292 | 82,601 | |
| Beadle County, South Dakota | $284,070,595 | 75,932 | |
| Edmunds County, South Dakota | $239,501,852 | 52,676 | |
| Sully County, South Dakota | $227,037,394 | 48,337 | |
| Charles Mix County, South Dakota | $214,118,382 | 87,102 | |
| Hand County, South Dakota | $206,149,482 | 57,158 | |
| Faulk County, South Dakota | $182,765,482 | 43,270 | |
| Marshall County, South Dakota | $182,751,290 | 42,907 | |
| Turner County, South Dakota | $175,557,216 | 60,186 | |
| Clay County, South Dakota | $175,246,966 | 42,334 | |
| McCook County, South Dakota | $154,368,500 | 50,865 | |
| Kingsbury County, South Dakota | $149,112,521 | 75,882 | |
| Bon Homme County, South Dakota | $148,326,565 | 50,113 | |
| Lincoln County, South Dakota | $147,774,479 | 54,373 | |
| Yankton County, South Dakota | $142,552,624 | 46,395 | |
| Potter County, South Dakota | $141,953,188 | 43,220 | |
| Day County, South Dakota | $138,874,552 | 62,038 | |
| Aurora County, South Dakota | $138,508,837 | 53,078 | |
| Clark County, South Dakota | $135,715,494 | 69,942 | |
| Lyman County, South Dakota | $133,783,428 | 48,262 | |
| Brule County, South Dakota | $130,101,779 | 57,941 | |
| Hughes County, South Dakota | $129,258,868 | 38,967 | |
| Hanson County, South Dakota | $127,250,570 | 40,073 | |
| Douglas County, South Dakota | $125,402,133 | 54,481 | |
| Davison County, South Dakota | $123,536,407 | 41,742 | |
| Union County, South Dakota | $120,109,819 | 36,380 | |
| Roberts County, South Dakota | $118,565,231 | 61,699 | |
| McPherson County, South Dakota | $118,321,892 | 46,276 | |
| Minnehaha County, South Dakota | $106,978,004 | 54,853 | |
| Sanborn County, South Dakota | $105,927,833 | 34,691 | |
| Hyde County, South Dakota | $100,536,768 | 31,913 | |
| Stanley County, South Dakota | $98,446,234 | 19,247 | |
| Haakon County, South Dakota | $90,462,644 | 23,284 | |
| Tripp County, South Dakota | $89,713,802 | 75,832 | |
| Miner County, South Dakota | $85,138,708 | 39,374 | |
| Codington County, South Dakota | $81,742,205 | 55,421 | |
| Perkins County, South Dakota | $75,770,920 | 44,354 | |
| Brookings County, South Dakota | $75,598,766 | 63,512 | |
| Lake County, South Dakota | $75,417,106 | 56,347 | |
| Corson County, South Dakota | $71,309,259 | 34,389 | |
| Grant County, South Dakota | $71,081,993 | 44,086 | |
| Hamlin County, South Dakota | $68,306,691 | 43,796 | |
| Walworth County, South Dakota | $67,942,215 | 35,533 | |
| Jerauld County, South Dakota | $64,320,288 | 32,417 | |
| Meade County, South Dakota | $63,029,364 | 23,795 | |
| Campbell County, South Dakota | $61,774,224 | 39,403 | |
| Gregory County, South Dakota | $59,581,615 | 44,746 | |
| Pennington County, South Dakota | $57,548,524 | 17,453 | |
| Deuel County, South Dakota | $56,519,279 | 47,623 | |
| Moody County, South Dakota | $51,702,743 | 38,247 | |
| Ziebach County, South Dakota | $48,583,481 | 17,656 | |
| Jones County, South Dakota | $46,603,269 | 15,731 | |
| Dewey County, South Dakota | $45,405,148 | 21,472 | |
| Buffalo County, South Dakota | $43,877,410 | 16,406 | |
| Jackson County, South Dakota | $42,319,308 | 15,444 | |
| Bennett County, South Dakota | $40,912,635 | 18,636 | |
| Harding County, South Dakota | $31,117,487 | 14,985 | |
| Mellette County, South Dakota | $22,599,682 | 16,405 | |
| Todd County, South Dakota | $20,873,970 | 11,620 | |
| Fall River County, South Dakota | $18,035,999 | 6,519 | |
| Shannon County, South Dakota | $17,905,087 | 6,953 | |
| Butte County, South Dakota | $15,713,781 | 11,819 | |
| Custer County, South Dakota | $7,373,599 | 3,350 | |
| $2,652,182 | 1,232 | ||
| Lawrence County, South Dakota | $800,453 | 1,265 | |
| Unknown county in South Dakota | $33,002 | 26 | |
| 1995-2018 | $7,602,459,159 | 2,792,609 | |
METHODOLOGY: EWG obtained county level crop insurance information from USDA Risk Management Agency which shows premium subsidies, indemnities and farmer premiums at the county/crop level by crop year. Administrative and Operating Expense Reimbursements to crop insurance companies (A+O), Other program fund costs, Other administrative and operating fund costs expenses, and Government earned interest were allocated to the crop/county level by using the national expenditures/revenue of the Crop Insurance program (available here for 2008-2017 and from RMA previous to 2008) in each category and attributing them the crop/county level by total premiums. EWG was unable to attribute underwriting gains to the county/crop level. Underwriting gains (or losses) are paid to insurance companies when the insurance companies collect more in total subsidies than are paid out in indemnities. Since underwriting gains are paid by company on the basis of all of their policies, EWG was unable to allocate underwriting gains by crop or by region. The total underwriting gains for 1995-2018 is $14.6 billion.
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