Political trust has been studied at federal, state, and local levels, but rarely at all three levels simultaneously. This is often due to the difficulty in specifying political trust across so many functions of government. Disasters give us the opportunity to examine all three levels of government at once, because they call upon federal, state, and local officials to intervene with various duties and responsibilities. Using a unique survey of hurricane-threatened observers and survivors of the 2004-06 hurricane seasons, I find that trust in government depends on disaster experience, attention to media coverage surrounding the events, and which level of government is being trusted.