Majority of recovery funding has focused on infrastructure and natural resources, failing to address significant housing and economic needs

Hurricane Helene recovery funding by category in North Carolina, from state and federal sources combined as of August 2026

The GROW NC Quarterly Relief and Recovery reports use more categories than the OSBM Helene Revised Damage and Relief Estimate. For ease of comparison with the OSBM damage categories, health care and human services have been combined into a single category "Health & Human Services", and infrastructure and natural resources have been combined into a single category "Infrastructure & Nat Resources". Because the OSBM damage estimate does not treat preparedness and mitigation or local capacity for recovery as separate categories, the specific funding items that the Quarterly Relief and Recovery report includes in these categories have been recategorized into other categories, such as "Housing" or "Infrastructure", depending on what the funding is used for; where no category in the OSBM damage report provides an appropriate fit, the specific items were recategorized as "Other".
Chart: NC Budget & Tax CenterSource: GROW NC FY2026 Q4 Quarterly Relief and Recovery Report, supplemented with all spending including in the state budget.Get the data