Summary:

This work presents the analysis of appearing the natural disasters in opolskie province in years 2008-2010. Dates was received from protocols of losses from administrative districts and cities which rose as a result of disaster and/or adverse weather conditions. On the basis of this information analysis of the scale of this phenomenon have been done. With the use of the statistical test chi-square the comparing of the number of farms embraced with disaster, the size of losses in the zloty and the degree of damage in % and numbers of farms applying for credit in the period of three years. Data concerning the frequency of appearing the natural disasters and adverse atmospheric phenomena in individual local governments on the map of the Opole province was presented. Carried analyses and statistical comparisons are showing that this kind of phenomenon appearing more and more often and defines the areas which suffered particularly in years 2008-2010. Basic of the map it is possibility to isolate north and north west area of our region as the most exposed to losses with adverse atmospheric phenomena and/or natural disasters and the south part of the province where the scale of these phenomena is lesser.