05/09/2024 – 16:55
A partial survey by the National Confederation of Municipalities (CNM) reveals that the storms recorded since April 29 in Rio Grande do Sul generated at least R$7.5 billion in financial losses. The numbers account for losses from municipalities that sent the data to the National Secretariat for Civil Protection and Defense of the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development.
The confederation clarifies that the losses are reported by the municipalities themselves. This is partial data, reported as damage is tallied.
The CNM estimates that 1.7 million people were affected, with 518 still missing and 107 deaths reported.
The confederation estimates that 428 municipalities were affected, 397 of which had state and federal recognition of the state of public calamity. Of these, 211 registered the decrees in the federal government’s Integrated Disaster Information System, with the majority reporting the amounts of damage and losses.
According to the CNM, of the reported financial losses, R$4.4 billion refer to the housing sector, with 85.3 thousand homes damaged or destroyed, R$2 billion were reported in the public sector and R$1.1 billion in the private.
Agriculture is the private economic sector with the most losses, totaling R$874 million.
Of the municipalities that suffered losses, R$811 million were related to agriculture and R$63 million to livestock farming. The industry reported R$151.7 million in losses. Another R$108.1 million was reported by local businesses.
In the public sector, the survey found losses of R$1.4 billion in infrastructure works (bridges, roads, urban drainage) and R$395.8 million in public facilities, such as schools, hospitals, city halls.
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