Natural disasters that led to the registration of emergency or state of public calamity affected 5,199 Brazilian municipalities, corresponding to 93% of the total.
The survey was carried out by the National Confederation of Municipalities (CNM), which analyzed storms, floods, floods or overflows in the last ten years.
Between 2013 and 2022, more than 2.2 million homes were damaged and 107,413 were destroyed across the country as a result of these events. With that, more than 4.2 million people had to leave their homes in 2,640 municipalities in the country.
Data by Regions
The municipalities in the South Region have the highest percentage of affected houses (46.79%), with 1 million damaged and 54,559 destroyed, with a financial loss of around R$ 4 billion (15.22% of the total).
Those in the Northeast accumulate the greatest financial loss, of almost R$ 16 billion (61.05%). The Region had 14.88% of homes damaged and destroyed in the analyzed period.
The Southeast had 20.98% of the total number of houses damaged and destroyed and R$ 4.3 billion in damage (16.57%).
In the North Region, the survey points to 16.33% of housing units affected, with a financial impact of R$ 1.7 billion (6.7%).
And the Midwest is the least affected, with 1% of homes affected and R$ 122,300 in damages (0.47%).
According to the CNM, several reasons impact the quantification of economic losses, for example, costs related to reconstruction, land and property prices.
In the years analyzed by the CNM, 2022 represents the worst scenario, when 371,172 homes were damaged or destroyed. Before that, the year with the most registrations had been 2015, adding up to 325,445.
The records of financial losses are more concentrated in the period from 2020 to 2022. Together, they represent more than 70% of the total for the last ten years.
In the assessment of the Confederation, the losses and social and economic impacts could have been smaller if there had been integrated policies for urban management, housing and disaster risk prevention.
“The loss in the whole country of housing damage, in this period of 10 years, exceeds R$ 26 billion. And the Municipalities are practically alone, at the end, to help the population. There is no support for prevention or investments”, ponders the president of CNM, Paulo Ziulkoski.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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