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Product Management Bulletin-PM-24-067 Hurricane Insurance Protection - Wind Index (HIP-WI) Payment Indicator and Trigger Event Date for Helene 2024

Date
To
All Approved Insurance Providers
All Risk Management Agency Field Offices
All Other Interested Parties
From
Richard H. Flournoy, Deputy Administrator /s/ Richard Flournoy
Subject
Hurricane Insurance Protection - Wind Index (HIP-WI) Payment Indicator and Trigger Event Date for Helene 2024

In accordance with Section 8 of the HIP-WI Endorsement and the Hurricane Data Provisions, approved counties will have an updated payment flag and triggering event date available by close of business today in the following formats:

  • Actuarial Information Browser (AIB) online reporting application:

https://aibpf-rma.fpac.usda.gov/apps/ActuarialInformationBrowser/CropCriteria.aspx

  • Actuarial Data Master (ADM) bulk data file download:

https://pubfs-rma.fpac.usda.gov/pub/References/actuarial_data_master/

The following counties were triggered for Reinsurance Year 2024 on September 26, 2024, to September 27, 2024, for payment under the HIP-WI Endorsement.

CycloneStateCounty
Helene, 2024Florida

Alachua*

Baker*

Calhoun*

Citrus*

Columbia*

Dixie

Franklin

Gadsden

Gilchrist*

Gulf*

Hamilton

Jackson*

Jefferson

Lafayette

Leon

Levy

Liberty

Madison

Marion*

Suwannee

Taylor

Wakulla

 

 

Georgia

Appling*

Atkinson

Bacon*

Baker*

Baldwin

Ben Hill

Berrien

Bibb

Bleckley

Brooks

Clinch

Coffee

Colquitt

Cook

Crawford*

Crisp

Decatur*

Dodge

Dooly

Dougherty*

Echols

Emanuel*

Glascock*

Grady

Hancock*

Houston

Irwin

Jasper*

Jeff Davis

Jefferson*

Johnson

Jones

Lanier

Laurens

Lee*

Lowndes

Macon*

Mitchell

Monroe*

Montgomery*

Peach*

Pulaski

Putnam*

Seminole*

Sumter*

Telfair

Thomas

Tift

Toombs*

Treutlen*

Turner

Twiggs

Ware*

Washington

Wheeler

Wilcox

Wilkinson

Worth

 

 

*Adjacent County

The following counties were triggered for Reinsurance Year 2024 on September 26, 2024, to September 27, 2024, for payment under the Tropical Storm Option.

CycloneStateCounty
Helene, 2024Alabama

Barbour*

Chambers*

Cherokee*

Cleburne*

Dale*

DeKalb*

Geneva*

Henry

Houston*

Lee*

Randolph*

 

Florida

Bay

Holmes*

Walton*

Washington*

 

 

Georgia

Banks

Barrow

Bartow

Bulloch*

Burke*

Butts

Calhoun

Candler*

Carroll*

Catoosa*

Chattahoochee*

Chattooga*

Cherokee

Clarke*

Clay

Clayton

Cobb

Columbia

Coweta

Dade*

Dawson

DeKalb

Douglas

Early*

Elbert

Fannin

Fayette

Floyd*

Forsyth

Franklin*

Fulton

Gilmer

Gordon

Greene

Gwinnett

Habersham

Hall

Haralson*

Harris

Hart

Heard*

Henry

Jackson

Jenkins*

Lamar

Lincoln

Lumpkin

Madison*

Marion*

McDuffie

Meriwether

Miller*

Morgan

Murray

Muscogee*

Newton

Oconee*

Oglethorpe*

Paulding

Pickens

Pike

Polk

Quitman

Rabun

Randolph

Richmond

Rockdale

Schley*

Spalding

Stephens

Stewart*

Talbot

Taliaferro

Tattnall*

Taylor

Terrell*

Towns

Troup

Union

Upson

Walker

Walton

Warren

Webster*

White

Whitfield

Wilkes

North Carolina

Alexander

Alleghany

Ashe

Avery

Buncombe

Burke

Caldwell

Catawba

Cherokee

Clay

Cleveland*

Graham

Haywood

Henderson

Iredell*

Jackson

Lincoln*

Macon

Madison

McDowell

Mitchell

Polk

Rutherford

Surry*

Swain

Transylvania

Watauga

Wilkes

Yadkin*

Yancey

South Carolina

Abbeville

Aiken*

Anderson

Cherokee*

Edgefield

Fairfield*

Greenville

Greenwood

Laurens

Lexington*

McCormick

Newberry

Oconee

Pickens

Richland*

Saluda

Spartanburg*

Union*

Virginia

Patrick*

Floyd*

 

*Adjacent County

The Reinsurance Year 2025 HIP-WI Tropical Storm Option uses a threshold of 5.9 inches to determine the county triggers. The following additional counties were triggered for Reinsurance Year 2025 on September 26, 2024, to September 27, 2024, for payment under the Tropical Storm Option.

CycloneStateCounty
Helene, 2024

Alabama

Russell*

Georgia

Burke

Screven*

Stewart

North Carolina

Cleveland

Gaston*

 

South Carolina

Allendale*

Barnwell*

York*

*Adjacent County

Attachment A provides a map of the Reinsurance Year 2024 county triggers. Attachment B (Text) provides a map of the four-day rainfall totals by county. Additional information on the policy, including frequently asked questions, videos, and a fact sheet, is available at https://rma.usda.gov/Topics/Hurricane-Insurance-Protection-Wind-Index.

DISPOSAL DATE 
12/31/2025