-64%
Citizens, Florida's insurer of last resort, shed two thirds of its policies in twelve months.
779,552 → 278,246 policies. Exposure $295B → $79.6B.
Surplus lines market data API
State regulators and stamping offices publish this market's numbers every month, buried in PDFs. QueryLines parses them into an API you can query for cents. No contracts, pay per query.
-64%
Citizens, Florida's insurer of last resort, shed two thirds of its policies in twelve months.
779,552 → 278,246 policies. Exposure $295B → $79.6B.
23.1×
That's how much New York's surplus lines market grew in 27 years, filed every one of them.
$443.8M in 1998. $10.26B in 2025.
72.5%
Ten counties carry three quarters of Florida's surplus lines premium, and they're the ten FEMA rates highest for hazard.
$12.49B of premium in the top 10 highest-risk counties.
36.9%
More than a third of Florida's book sat inside Hurricane Helene's declared counties.
$6.36B across 47 Florida counties, of 242 declared in four states.
Every number above is a free query. Click one to run it.
$ curl -s "https://api.querylines.com/v1/premium/sample?state=NY"
Try it
This fires a real request from your browser to
api.querylines.com. It opens on a free endpoint, so press
Run and you get data back. Switch to a paid one and you'll see the
payment challenge an agent settles against.
What it answers
Real answers from the live data, with the source behind each one. Take any of them further in the demo, from your terminal, or by asking an assistant.
How did Hurricane Idalia change Florida's surplus lines market?
Premium in the 49 counties Idalia had federally declared rose 46.9% from 2022 to 2025. In the 18 counties the storm missed, it rose 39.9%. The gap is the storm. The rest is the market. Without that control group, every post-storm number is just the hard market wearing a hurricane costume.
FEMA disaster declarations and county-level E&S premium, 2022 to 2025.
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Do admitted-market rate increases show up in E&S premium later?
In Texas property, admitted carriers filed an average rate change of +5.7% across 448 filings in 2022. The next year, E&S property premium grew +39.2%. Line the two series up, shift one by a year, and judge the lead for yourself. These are two aligned data families, not a prediction, and the endpoint says so.
SLTX premium and Texas Department of Insurance rate filings, aligned on state, line, and year.
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Where does one carrier actually write, state by state?
State Farm's group book: $109.0B written across 49 states, ranked first in 37 of them, with a 10.3% national share. One call returns the rank, premium, share, and year-over-year change in every one of those states.
NAIC market share reports for property/casualty groups and companies, 2024 data.
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Is this carrier actually profitable?
Kinsale ran a combined ratio of 78 in 2025, keeping 22 cents of underwriting profit on every premium dollar, and has held it near 79 for five straight years while its policyholder surplus tripled to $1.9B. Premium tells you how much a carrier writes. This tells you whether the writing makes money.
Surplus lines insurers' NAIC annual-statement financials, FY2021 to FY2025.
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Is this carrier in trouble?
American Capital Assurance Corp went into liquidation on 14 April 2021 under Florida case 2021 CA 0641, and its claims fell to the guaranty associations of six states. Receiverships and regulator enforcement actions come back as one dossier per carrier, rather than as five states' worth of separate websites.
State receivership registries and regulator enforcement orders, Florida, Texas, New York, California, Washington.
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Is this carrier eligible to write surplus lines, and since when?
Convex Insurance UK Limited is eligible, unrestricted, and on the list at least as far back as January 2025. The answer distinguishes "added on this date" from "listed by this date", because the underlying list only records the second one for older entries.
NAIC Quarterly Listing of Alien Insurers, edition 252, July 2026.
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Who writes the most surplus lines premium in Florida?
Lloyd's, and it isn't close: $364.8M in June 2026, nearly five times the next carrier on the list. Rankings come back by month or by year, so you can watch positions move rather than read one frozen table.
Florida stamping-office monthly premium report, June 2026.
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Also in here: how big the Texas market is this year, how fast California is growing, Florida against Texas side by side, whether Citizens is still shedding policies, and which counties carry a state's risk. See the whole picture.
Ask an assistant
Connect it to QueryLines and it will go and get them instead. These figures live in state reports, not in any model's training data, so a chatbot hands you a confident number with no source. Connected, it answers from the real data and shows you which report each figure came from.
Q: Florida E&S premium, June 2026? A: "around $1.4 billion" // invented on the spot // no source, no report date // nothing to check it against // ask again, get a different number
$ curl -s "https://api.querylines.com/v1/premium?state=FL" { "period": "2026-06", "premium": 1877013891, "policy_count": 204624, "report_date": "2026-06-30", "source": "FSLSO FL Monthly Premium Report, June 2026" }
Connect it once
In Claude Code, one line. In a desktop assistant, add it as a custom connector with the same URL.
$ claude mcp add --transport http querylines https://api.querylines.com/mcp
Then ask in plain English
No account and no key. The free data answers straight away in any assistant that speaks MCP.
Using QueryLines, how much of Florida's surplus lines premium sits in the ten counties FEMA rates highest for hazard? Show me the sources.
Paid queries are a step further: your assistant has to settle the charge itself, which needs a wallet-capable client or a small proxy. How paid tools work in an assistant →
Live market data
All coverage lines, statewide, latest 13 months. This section is
rendered in your browser from
/v1/premium/sample,
a free endpoint: the same JSON an agent gets, no key, no payment.
Loading live data from api.querylines.com…
| Month | Premium | Policies |
|---|
What's in the data
Every fact row carries its source publication. Here's what's live today.
All 15 U.S. stamping states. FL·TX·CA monthly, rest annual
NAIC P&C, all states, by line
statutory results + reinsurer panel, nationwide
NAIC alien listing, all 50 states
FEMA declarations + NOAA HURDAT2
FEMA National Risk Index, 18 perils
State receivers + regulators
Florida share of national homeowners claims vs. lawsuits
CA · MS · TX · WA, admitted market
policies-in-force + takeouts
capacity + result forecast, joined to US eligibility
| Dataset | Source | History | Dimensions |
|---|---|---|---|
| E&S premium, FL | FL Monthly Premium Report + quarterly + annual reports | quarterly 2016 – 2022 (exact premium), monthly Jan 2024 – Jun 2026 (2024: policy counts only), plus annual county-level premium 2017 – 2023 and 2025 | coverage lines, top insurers, counties, new vs renewal |
| E&S premium, TX | TX stamping office monthly + annual reports | monthly Jan 2016 – Jun 2026, annual 2009 – 2025 | coverage lines (annual), top insurers |
| E&S premium, CA | CA stamping office monthly totals + annual reports | monthly Jan 2017 – Jun 2026, annual FY2018 – FY2023 (Dec–Nov fiscal years) | statewide monthly totals (transaction counts); top coverage lines and top carriers (annual) |
| E&S premium, IL | IL stamping office filing data | annual 2022 – 2025, plus half-year (H1) 2023 – 2025 | 88 coverage codes, top 50 insurers, documents-filed counts |
| E&S premium, WA | WA stamping office annual reports | annual 2023 – 2025 | statewide totals, top 5 classes |
| E&S premium, NY | NY + national (WSIA) stamping-office annual reports | annual 1998 – 2025 (continuous), coverage lines 2015 – 2019 and 2023 – 2025 | statewide totals (filed transactions), 14 coverage categories |
| Insurer eligibility, all 50 states | NAIC Quarterly Listing of Alien Insurers | quarterly editions, Jan 2025 – Jul 2026 | 192 listed alien insurers + Lloyd's syndicates, listed-since dates, restrictions, additions and removals |
| Citizens, FL residual market | Citizens Property Insurance Corp. policies-in-force + depopulation reports | monthly Jan 2019 – Jun 2026, takeouts 2007 – 2026 | product lines, wind vs ex-wind, counties, takeout companies |
| Carrier market share, all states | NAIC annual P&C market share reports | annual, data years 2020 – 2024 | 33 lines of business, top 10 writers per state + top 125 countrywide, share, loss ratios, YoY growth |
| Carrier financials, nationwide | Surplus lines insurers' NAIC annual-statement financial filings | five fiscal years per carrier, FY2021 – FY2025 | losses and loss ratio, combined ratio, policyholder surplus, IRIS solvency ratios, and a top-5 reinsurer panel with authorization status and overdue recoverables |
| Hurricane exposure, all states | FEMA disaster declarations + NOAA HURDAT2 storm tracks | 153 named U.S. hurricanes, 1954 – 2026 | declared counties per storm, NOAA landfall category and wind, FL county premium exposure and pre-vs-post impact |
| Natural-hazard risk, all states | FEMA National Risk Index (public domain) | 3,200+ U.S. counties, 18 perils, December 2025 edition | expected annual loss and risk score by county and peril (wildfire, coastal and inland flood, hurricane, earthquake, tornado and more), plus the FL surplus-lines premium riding on the highest-hazard counties |
| Carrier solvency & enforcement, multi-state | State receivers (FL DFS, California CLO, New York Liquidation Bureau) + regulators (FL OIR, Texas TDI, New York DFS, California CDI, Washington OIC) | 649 receivership estates (FL, CA, NY); enforcement fines and license actions across FL, TX, NY, CA, WA, 2020 – 2026 | receivership status, order/claims dates, guaranty associations; fines, consent orders, suspensions/revocations, matched by carrier |
| Insurance rate filings, CA + MS + TX + WA | California CDI approval lists, Mississippi MID bulletins, Texas TDI open data, Washington OIC annual reports | 54,000+ Texas filings 1998 – 2026; 33,000+ California filings 2019 – 2026; Mississippi 2024; Washington top-5 by year | rate change %, effective and closed dates, line of business, filing status; plus a cross-state rate-activity index that leads surplus-lines growth |
| Lloyd's of London syndicate results | Lloyd's Syndicate Forecasts + Market Directory | the active syndicate roster with capacity and estimated result forecasts for the syndicates in the latest release | capacity and worst/best result forecast by year of account, managing agent; joined by syndicate number to US surplus-lines eligibility |
Pricing
Market data in this industry usually means an annual licence and a procurement cycle before you see a single number. Here the discovery endpoints are free, the first paid query takes minutes, and there is no minimum and nothing to renew.
/v1/coverage: what data exists/v1/lines + /v1/carriers/lines: taxonomies/v1/cat/events: named-storm catalog/v1/*/sample: a free sample of every dataset/v1/premium: premium by month or quarter/v1/premium/summary: headline totals + YoY/v1/insurers: top E&S insurers, share + growth/v1/eligibility, /v1/citizens/*: eligibility, Citizens (FL)/v1/carriers, /v1/carriers/profile: market share, carrier profiles/v1/cat/counties: which counties a storm hit/v1/hazard: county hazard risk by peril (FEMA National Risk Index)/v1/solvency, /v1/enforcement: is a carrier in trouble? fines + receiverships/v1/syndicates: Lloyd's syndicate capacity + result forecast + US eligibility/v1/compare: compare markets side by side/v1/carriers/footprint: one carrier across every state/v1/cat/exposure: current book in a storm's path/v1/cat/impact: premium change after a storm/v1/hazard/premium: the E&S premium riding on county hazard riskPay per query with x402, settled in USDC on Base. USDC is a digital dollar: 1 USDC = $1, no trading, no price risk, and it settles inside the request instead of arriving as an invoice. Never set up a wallet? Fund one in five minutes → Questions: hello@querylines.com
Integrate
Free endpoints work in any client, zero setup. Paid ones settle over x402 in USDC on Base: no account, no gas from you. Pick a language below, or go deep in the docs.
$ curl -s "https://api.querylines.com/v1/premium/sample"
Paid endpoints (/v1/premium, /v1/compare, …) return an x402
payment challenge instead of data until it's settled.
Full walkthrough →
// pay-per-query, no account: settle the 402 and retry import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch"; import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client"; import { ExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client"; import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts"; const signer = privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY); const client = new x402Client(); client.register("eip155:*", new ExactEvmScheme(signer)); const fetchWithPayment = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client); const res = await fetchWithPayment( "https://api.querylines.com/v1/premium?state=FL" ); console.log(await res.json());
# pip install "x402[httpx,evm]" from eth_account import Account from x402 import x402Client from x402.http.clients import x402HttpxClient from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client client = x402Client() register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(PRIVATE_KEY))) async with x402HttpxClient(client) as http: # inside your async main() response = await http.get("https://api.querylines.com/v1/premium?state=FL") await response.aread() print(response.text)
$ claude mcp add --transport http querylines https://api.querylines.com/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"querylines": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.querylines.com/mcp" }
}
}
The free tools work in any MCP client with zero setup. Paid tools need an x402-capable client with a funded wallet, plain clients get a payment challenge. Full walkthrough →
Also in the docs: Go, C#, Rust, Ruby, a pay-anything proxy, and how to set up a wallet, even if you never have.
https://api.querylines.com/mcp · streamable HTTP · a typed tool for every query
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Every month we publish a market snapshot written from this same data: headline premium, filing counts, and the top coverage lines, for Florida, Texas, and California. Free to read, nothing to set up, and every page links to the queries behind it.
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