**Disclosure of Open Data** All data needed to reproduce the results for Experiment 1a, 1b, and 2 reported in the working paper, “Financial Resources and Decisions to Avoid Information about Environmental Perils,” appear here. See Experiment 1a and 1b folder for the data, codebooks, and SPSS syntax for both experiments. See Experiment 2 folder for the data file, codebook, and SPSS syntax used in Experiment 2. **Abstract** Environmental perils such as extreme weather events, contaminated water, and poor air quality pose threats that require preparation, and preparation requires being informed about the threat. Ironically, people may opt to remain uninformed—to avoid information about environmental perils—if they lack resources to respond or believe the information will require them to take unwanted action. In three experiments (N = 845), we examined how available resources and required response to an environmental peril affect perceptions of burden of taking action, and how perceiving burden, in turn, affects avoidance of information about an environmental peril. Experiments 1a and 1b revealed that lower perceived likelihood of taking action and low income predicted a greater tendency to avoid hurricane risk information among people living in a hurricane-prone state. Experiment 2 examined receptivity to information about home radon levels and manipulated the burden required to make home repairs (200 vs. 2,000 U.S. dollars). Having low income and learning that home repairs were costly lead to perceptions of greater burden of taking action. Greater perceived burden lead to a lower likelihood to take action and to greater information avoidance.