diff --git a/configs/dataset/xview2.yaml b/configs/dataset/xview2.yaml
index 4fd027c..cac06a8 100644
--- a/configs/dataset/xview2.yaml
+++ b/configs/dataset/xview2.yaml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ auto_download: False
 img_size: 1024
 multi_temporal: False
 multi_modal: False
+oversample_building_damage: True
 
 # classes
 ignore_index: -1
diff --git a/pangaea/datasets/xview2.py b/pangaea/datasets/xview2.py
index 2b415c7..820da6e 100644
--- a/pangaea/datasets/xview2.py
+++ b/pangaea/datasets/xview2.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ def __init__(
         data_max: dict[str, list[str]],
         download_url: str,
         auto_download: bool,
+        oversample_building_damage: bool
     ):
         """Initialize the xView2 dataset.
         Link: https://xview2.org/dataset
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ def __init__(
             e.g. {"s2": [b1_max, ..., bn_max], "s1": [b1_max, ..., bn_max]}
             download_url (str): url to download the dataset.
             auto_download (bool): whether to download the dataset automatically.
+            oversample_building_damage (bool): whether to oversample images with building damage
         """
         super(xView2, self).__init__(
             split=split,
@@ -105,6 +107,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.ignore_index = ignore_index
         self.download_url = download_url
         self.auto_download = auto_download
+        self.oversample_building_damage = oversample_building_damage
 
         self.all_files = self.get_all_files()
 
@@ -124,7 +127,7 @@ def get_all_files(self) -> Sequence[str]:
         if self.split != "test":
             train_val_idcs = self.get_stratified_train_val_split(all_files)
             
-            if self.split == "train":
+            if self.split == "train" and self.oversample_building_damage:
                 train_val_idcs[self.split] = self.oversample_building_files(all_files, train_val_idcs[self.split])