U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Southern Great Plains. The states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas regularly experience some of the most extreme weather on the planet. Climate change is expected to lead to hotter and drier conditions ...

Southwest Southwest . Climate change is threatening water resources, increasing challenges to food and fiber production, and compromising human health in the Southwest through ...

Northwest Northwest . Extreme heat, flooding, wildfires, and other climate hazards threaten human health, sense of place, ecosystems, infrastructure, and industries in the Nort ...

U. S. Caribbean. Hurricanes, increasingly powerful storms, and rising sea levels are already harming human health, ecosystems, water and food supplies, and critical infrastructure in the US Caribbean, ...

Northern Great Plains. The Northern Great Plains is experiencing unprecedented climate-driven extremes, including severe drought, floods, and wildfires. These changes threaten economic sectors such as ...

Southeast Southeast . The Southeast's growing population faces increasing threats from climate change, with impacts on human health, ecosystems, economies, infrastructure, and ...

Midwest Midwest . Increasing humidity and precipitation and rising extreme temperatures are having negative impacts across the Midwest. Integrating climate adaptation into plan ...

Great Lakes. Increases in extreme precipitation events, changes in growing seasons, and warming temperatures impact the people, ecosystems, and infrastructure of the Great Lakes region—and the lakes t ...

Hawai'i and Pacific Islands. Climate change—especially sea level rise, altered rainfall patterns, and rising ocean and air temperatures—impairs access to clean water and healthy food, undermines human ...

Alaska and the Arctic. Loss of sea ice, thawing permafrost, and other climate-driven changes in Alaska are transforming ecosystems, disrupting cultural practices, harming fisheries and other livelihoo ...