DISASTER CHARACTERISTICS OF FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE BY THE 19th TYPHOON (2019)

Abstract

 THE 19^th Typhoon (2019) caused a heavy rainfall in the northeastern part of the Japan, and caused a great damage to each place. Especially in Fukushima Prefecture, the largest level of damage with a occupancy ratio of about 24 to 49% of the whole country was concentrated. Among the damages, 32 dead and damages at 50 river bank breakages indicate issues to be corresponded with in basin management future disaster prevention against heavy rainfall.

 In this paper, we reported disasters characteristics in Fukushima prefecture, which suffered enormous damage based on the results of field surveys, and summarized the consideration of disaster damages. For the use of future disaster prevention in planning, we prepared archive information of the enormous damage situation by the description in this paper.