Some financial instruments, such as loan commitments, credit lines, letters of credit, and overdraft protection are issued to meet customer financing needs. These are agreements to provide credit or to support the credit of others, as long as conditions established in the contract are met, and usually have expiration dates. Commitments may expire without being used. Off-balance-sheet risk to credit loss exists up to the face amount of these instruments, although material losses are not anticipated. The same credit policies are used to make such commitments as are used for loans, including obtaining collateral at exercise of the commitment.

The contractual amount of financial instruments with off-balance-sheet risk was as follows at year-end.

	2018				2017
	Fixed Rate		Variable Rate		Fixed Rate		Variable Rate
Commitments to extend credit:
Lines of credit and construction loans	$	14,984	$	359,220	$	4,982	$	286,925
Overdraft protection		3		37,201		7		33,353
Letters of credit		624		850		624		2,637
	$	15,611	$	397,271	$	5,613	$	322,915

Commitments to make loans are generally made for a period of one year or less. Fixed-rate loan commitments included above had interest rates ranging from 2.88% to 8.50% at December 31, 2018 and 2.88% to 10.25% at December 31, 2017. Maturities extend up to 30 years.

Civista is required to maintain certain reserve balances on hand in accordance with the Federal Reserve Board requirements. The average reserve balance maintained in accordance with such requirements was $8,891 on December 31, 2018 and $4,112 on December 31, 2017.