# Crop insurance — California (2026) — USDA RMA Summary of Business — context brief

USDA RMA crop insurance for California (2026): 40,408 policies sold, $11,920,161,982 total liability, $809,919,513 total premium, $41,803,318 indemnities paid, loss ratio 5.2%. Top crop: Almonds. Atlas Commons aggregation over USDA RMA SoB. CC0.

Claims (warrant · source), each re-fetchable to verify:

- **California had 40,408 crop insurance policies sold in 2026 across 63 commodities** — RECORDED · USDA Risk Management Agency Summary of Business (https://www.rma.usda.gov/data/sob)
- **Crop insurance premium in California for 2026: $809,919,513 total, $495,124,371 subsidized** — DERIVED · USDA Risk Management Agency Summary of Business (Atlas Commons aggregation) (https://www.rma.usda.gov/data/sob)
- **Crop insurance indemnities paid in California for 2026: $41,803,318** — DERIVED · USDA Risk Management Agency Summary of Business (Atlas Commons aggregation) (https://www.rma.usda.gov/data/sob)
- **California crop insurance loss ratio for 2026: 5.2%** — DERIVED · USDA Risk Management Agency Summary of Business (Atlas Commons aggregation — indemnity / total_premium × 100) (https://www.rma.usda.gov/data/sob)
- **Almonds is the largest crop insurance commodity in California by liability (2026): $3,589,974,824** — DERIVED · USDA Risk Management Agency Summary of Business (Atlas Commons aggregation) (https://www.rma.usda.gov/data/sob)
- **What this crop insurance profile is — and is NOT — for California (2026)** — INTERPRETATION · Coverage Atlas framing (over the USDA RMA sources cited above) (https://coverage-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/coverage/crop/states/ca)

Do not take these on trust — re-fetch each named source. Full structured object: `https://coverage-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/coverage/crop/states/ca.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

**California — crop insurance summary (2026)** (9): Policies sold — 40,408 — AGGREGATED; Policies indemnified — 1,768 — AGGREGATED; Total liability covered — $11,920,161,982 — AGGREGATED…
**California — top 30 crops by liability (2026)** (30): Almonds (0028) — $3,589,974,824 — 7,414 — 0.1%; Grapes (0053) — $1,757,046,909 — 5,517 — 0.0%; Pistachios (0470) — $1,058,442,739 — 1,246 — 0.0%…