The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of local government capacity on disaster resilience, focusing on heavy rains during natural disasters. It is intended to categorize local government capabilities into economic, physical, and human components, and to clarify which local government capabilities reduce the disaster resilience cost index caused by heavy rain. To this end, we constructed panel data for 10 years, from 2009 to 2018, for 17 metropolitan local governments, and conducted panel regression analysis using the STATA statistical program. According to the analysis, the higher the ratio of urban parks and river area, the smaller the resilience cost index, and the greater the disaster resilience. Meanwhile, we found that economic capacity and human capacity did not significantly affect disaster resilience.

[Key Words] Disaster Resilience, Resilience Cost Index, Disaster Management, Local Government Capacity, Panel Regression Analysis