Rebuilding Today. Preparing for Tomorrow.
We are a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit in Hot Springs, North Carolina. We take care of every gift and put it to work finishing the flood recovery, preparing for the next emergency, and opening new opportunities for our town.
Your gift goes to work here.
RHSA runs on private donations, and every gift is tax-deductible. It pays for projects that move Hot Springs forward and help the town get ready for the next emergency.
What’s been happening
Featured News
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Read more: Two years on: what took rootWhen we think of Helene, we don’t think first of the destruction. We think of 11:00 a.m., when neighbors gathered at Sara Jo’s Station and left with a job to do. Two years later, here is what grew from that day.
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What Could Our Community Center Become? Four Designs, One Big Conversation
Read more: What Could Our Community Center Become? Four Designs, One Big ConversationFour volunteer designers. Four futures for the Andrews Ave Community Center and Old Jail. On May 21, neighbors saw them all: an open-air pavilion built from the old stone, a working hub with a greenhouse, a full historic restoration, and a raised civic campus with housing upstairs. Here’s what you told us.
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[FILLED]: General Contractors Needed — Hot Springs, NC
Read more: [FILLED]: General Contractors Needed — Hot Springs, NCFilled. RHSA was looking for licensed, insured general contractors to complete up to six residential repair and reconstruction projects in Hot Springs and Spring Creek, on homes Helene damaged.
Who are we?
Rebuild Hot Springs Area (RHSA) is a grassroots nonprofit run by the people who live here. Neighbors founded it in October 2024, after Hurricane Helene flooded the town, and volunteers still do all of the work. We started by repairing what the flood damaged. Now we look ahead: to the next emergency, and to what our town can become.
A book built by Hot Springs, for Hot Springs
Through Our Eyes began as an open call: share your photos and your stories. Hundreds of submissions came in, from first responders who went into the rising water and from neighbors who pulled each other to safety. Together they show how a mountain town, cut off from the world, kept itself going and started to rebuild.
Proceeds from this book support Rebuild Hot Springs Area’s ongoing recovery efforts.
- Nominated for the Weatherford Award
- More than 200 photographs
- Work from 48 people who lived through Helene