diff --git a/internal/provider/burn_alert_resource.go b/internal/provider/burn_alert_resource.go
index 9f7a7ab4..665df9c8 100644
--- a/internal/provider/burn_alert_resource.go
+++ b/internal/provider/burn_alert_resource.go
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ func (r *burnAlertResource) Read(ctx context.Context, req resource.ReadRequest,
 	state.ID = types.StringValue(burnAlert.ID)
 	state.AlertType = types.StringValue(string(burnAlert.AlertType))
 	state.SLOID = types.StringValue(burnAlert.SLO.ID)
-	state.Recipients = reconcileNotificationRecipientState(burnAlert.Recipients, state.Recipients)
+	state.Recipients = reconcileReadNotificationRecipientState(burnAlert.Recipients, state.Recipients)
 
 	// Process any attributes that could be nil and add them to the state values
 	if burnAlert.ExhaustionMinutes != nil {
diff --git a/internal/provider/notification_recipients.go b/internal/provider/notification_recipients.go
index 2e45d850..e07597ed 100644
--- a/internal/provider/notification_recipients.go
+++ b/internal/provider/notification_recipients.go
@@ -85,14 +85,15 @@ func notificationRecipientSchema(allowedTypes []client.RecipientType) schema.Set
 	}
 }
 
-func reconcileNotificationRecipientState(remote []client.NotificationRecipient, state []models.NotificationRecipientModel) []models.NotificationRecipientModel {
+func reconcileReadNotificationRecipientState(remote []client.NotificationRecipient, state []models.NotificationRecipientModel) []models.NotificationRecipientModel {
 	if state == nil {
 		// if we don't have any state, we can't reconcile anything so just return the remote recipients
 		return flattenNotificationRecipients(remote)
 	}
 
 	recipients := make([]models.NotificationRecipientModel, len(remote))
-	// match the remote recipients to those in the state sorting out type+target vs ID
+	// match the remote recipients to those in the state
+	// in an effort to preserve the id vs type+target distinction
 	for i, r := range remote {
 		idx := slices.IndexFunc(state, func(s models.NotificationRecipientModel) bool {
 			if !s.ID.IsNull() {
diff --git a/internal/provider/notification_recipients_test.go b/internal/provider/notification_recipients_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a3e727c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/provider/notification_recipients_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+package provider
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-framework/types"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+
+	"github.com/honeycombio/terraform-provider-honeycombio/client"
+	"github.com/honeycombio/terraform-provider-honeycombio/internal/models"
+)
+
+func Test_reconcileReadNotificationRecipientState(t *testing.T) {
+	type args struct {
+		remote []client.NotificationRecipient
+		state  []models.NotificationRecipientModel
+	}
+	tests := []struct {
+		name string
+		args args
+		want []models.NotificationRecipientModel
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "both empty",
+			args: args{},
+			want: []models.NotificationRecipientModel{},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "empty state",
+			args: args{
+				remote: []client.NotificationRecipient{
+					{ID: "abcd12345", Type: client.RecipientTypeEmail, Target: "test@example.com"},
+				},
+				state: []models.NotificationRecipientModel{},
+			},
+			want: []models.NotificationRecipientModel{
+				{ID: types.StringValue("abcd12345"), Type: types.StringValue("email"), Target: types.StringValue("test@example.com")},
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "empty remote",
+			args: args{
+				remote: []client.NotificationRecipient{},
+				state: []models.NotificationRecipientModel{
+					{ID: types.StringValue("abcd12345"), Type: types.StringValue("email"), Target: types.StringValue("test@example.com")},
+				},
+			},
+			want: []models.NotificationRecipientModel{},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "remote and state reconciled",
+			args: args{
+				remote: []client.NotificationRecipient{
+					{ID: "abcd12345", Type: client.RecipientTypeEmail, Target: "test@example.com"},
+					{ID: "efgh67890", Type: client.RecipientTypeSlack, Target: "#test-channel"},
+				},
+				state: []models.NotificationRecipientModel{
+					{ID: types.StringValue("abcd12345")},                                           // defined by ID
+					{Type: types.StringValue("slack"), Target: types.StringValue("#test-channel")}, // defined by type+target
+				},
+			},
+			want: []models.NotificationRecipientModel{
+				{ID: types.StringValue("abcd12345")},
+				{Type: types.StringValue("slack"), Target: types.StringValue("#test-channel")},
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "remote has additional recipients",
+			args: args{
+				remote: []client.NotificationRecipient{
+					{ID: "abcd12345", Type: client.RecipientTypeEmail, Target: "test@example.com"},
+					{ID: "efgh67890", Type: client.RecipientTypeSlack, Target: "#test-channel"},
+					{ID: "qrsty3847", Type: client.RecipientTypeSlack, Target: "#test-alerts"},
+					{
+						ID:     "ijkl13579",
+						Type:   client.RecipientTypePagerDuty,
+						Target: "test-pagerduty",
+						Details: &client.NotificationRecipientDetails{
+							PDSeverity: client.PDSeverityWARNING,
+						}},
+				},
+				state: []models.NotificationRecipientModel{
+					{ID: types.StringValue("abcd12345")},                                           // defined by ID
+					{Type: types.StringValue("slack"), Target: types.StringValue("#test-channel")}, // defined by type+target
+				},
+			},
+			want: []models.NotificationRecipientModel{
+				{ID: types.StringValue("abcd12345")},
+				{Type: types.StringValue("slack"), Target: types.StringValue("#test-channel")},
+				{ID: types.StringValue("qrsty3847"), Type: types.StringValue("slack"), Target: types.StringValue("#test-alerts")},
+				{
+					ID:     types.StringValue("ijkl13579"),
+					Type:   types.StringValue("pagerduty"),
+					Target: types.StringValue("test-pagerduty"),
+					Details: []models.NotificationRecipientDetailsModel{
+						{PDSeverity: types.StringValue("warning")},
+					},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "state has additional recipients",
+			args: args{
+				remote: []client.NotificationRecipient{
+					{ID: "efgh67890", Type: client.RecipientTypeSlack, Target: "#test-foo"},
+				},
+				state: []models.NotificationRecipientModel{
+					{ID: types.StringValue("abcd12345")},
+					{Type: types.StringValue("slack"), Target: types.StringValue("#test-foo")},
+					{ID: types.StringValue("ijkl13579"), Details: []models.NotificationRecipientDetailsModel{{PDSeverity: types.StringValue("warning")}}},
+				},
+			},
+			want: []models.NotificationRecipientModel{
+				{Type: types.StringValue("slack"), Target: types.StringValue("#test-foo")},
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "state has totally unmatched recipients",
+			args: args{
+				remote: []client.NotificationRecipient{
+					{ID: "efgh67890", Type: client.RecipientTypeSlack, Target: "#test-foo"},
+				},
+				state: []models.NotificationRecipientModel{
+					{ID: types.StringValue("abcd12345")},
+					{Type: types.StringValue("slack"), Target: types.StringValue("#test-channel")},
+					{ID: types.StringValue("ijkl13579"), Details: []models.NotificationRecipientDetailsModel{{PDSeverity: types.StringValue("warning")}}},
+				},
+			},
+			want: []models.NotificationRecipientModel{
+				{ID: types.StringValue("efgh67890"), Type: types.StringValue("slack"), Target: types.StringValue("#test-foo")},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			assert.Equal(t, tt.want, reconcileReadNotificationRecipientState(tt.args.remote, tt.args.state))
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/provider/trigger_resource.go b/internal/provider/trigger_resource.go
index 06018c33..d729e5e9 100644
--- a/internal/provider/trigger_resource.go
+++ b/internal/provider/trigger_resource.go
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ func (r *triggerResource) Read(ctx context.Context, req resource.ReadRequest, re
 	state.Threshold = flattenTriggerThreshold(trigger.Threshold)
 	state.Frequency = types.Int64Value(int64(trigger.Frequency))
 	state.EvaluationSchedule = flattenTriggerEvaluationSchedule(trigger)
-	state.Recipients = reconcileNotificationRecipientState(trigger.Recipients, state.Recipients)
+	state.Recipients = reconcileReadNotificationRecipientState(trigger.Recipients, state.Recipients)
 
 	resp.Diagnostics.Append(resp.State.Set(ctx, state)...)
 }