Pew Trusts: How States Can Build Disaster-Ready Budgets

The article linked below, How States Can Build Disaster-Ready Budgets: Strategies for reducing fiscal risks in the face of rising costs, is based on a series of studies from The Pew Charitable Trusts from 2018 to 2022 that examined how states manage the fiscal impact of natural disasters. "This brief details Pew’s recommendations, including specific actionable steps that policymakers can take—regardless of their state’s particular financial situation or disaster risks—to work toward these three principles (measure the total impact, manage disaster funding, and mitigate further risks), and and build fiscal resilience to increasingly costly disasters."

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2025/05/how-states-can-build-disaster-ready-budgets