Watch our three-minute video to learn about the purpose and components of the Climate Resilience Toolkit, or scroll down to explore features of the site.
Meet the Challenges of a Changing Climate
Learn about potential climate hazards so you can protect vulnerable assets.
Steps To Resilience
These steps help you document climate hazards that could harm the things you care about, decide which situations you most want to avoid, and come up with workable solutions to reduce your climate-related risks. Preparing a city to withstand weather and climate-related hazards can be addressed by applying these steps to regular updates of municipal plans. Watch the overview video or click any step to learn more.
Tools
Looking for climate data? Need to compile a Climate Vulnerability Assessment or Adaptation Plan? Our catalog of more than 200 digital tools can help you take steps to build resilience, from engaging a community to developing a climate action plan. Here's one example of the tools in our catalog:
City managers, policymakers, and advocates can use this step-by-step tool to build thriving urban forest programs.
Expertise
Find Experts
Locate climate science and service centers that can help you build resilience
Reports
Access climate-relevant reports issued by government agencies and scientific organizations
Training Courses
Learn about new tools or build your knowledge and skills to manage climate-related risks and opportunities
State Climate Summaries
Find state-level climate information from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information
Climate Explorer
Explore interactive graphs and compare time-series maps showing climate projections and observations for any county in the contiguous United States. You can also explore historical temperature and precipitation observations at hundreds of climate stations, and view observed and projected days of high-tide flooding at more than 90 coastal tide-gauge stations.
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Landing panel: The rusty-patched bumble bee was once an excellent pollinator of wildflowers, cranberries, and other important crops, including plum, apple, alfalfa, and onion seed. The species occupied grasslands and tallgrass prairies of the upper Midwest and Northeast, but as most grasslands and prairies have been lost, degraded, or fragmented by conversion to other uses, it is now endangered throughout its range. Learn more about how a changing climate can amplify the effects from land use change on our Midwest | Biodiversity and Ecosystems page. Photo credit: USFWS, public domain, via Flickr.