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Flood risk assessment of Barak river valley
Figure 14. The number of villages with flood exposure, vulnerability, and risk
Figure 15. Field photos of the Barak Valley flood. Image taken by the authors.
times in Barak Valley districts. The data were sourced flood. In total, 12,809 hectares of agricultural land
from the Assam Flood Memorandum 2015 – 2023. The were inundated, resulting in 56 human fatalities, over
2022 destructive Assam flood caused great damage 100,000 damaged homes, and additional losses. This
in the study area, where 1741 villages and almost 2 was followed by the 2018 flood, which impacted 667
million people were affected by the 2022 Barak River villages, inundated 8,118.62 hectares of agricultural
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