Tools | U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Tools are available to help you manage your climate-related risks and opportunities, and to help guide you in building resilience to extreme events. Browse the list below, or filter by topic and/or tool functionality in the boxes above. To expand your results, click the Clear Filters link.

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Aquatic Connectivity Assessment and Prioritization Tool

Users in the North Atlantic—from Maine to West Virginia—can access this database and these tools to help identify bridges and culverts that impede aquatic connectivity.

Cal-Adapt

California residents and city and county planners can identify potential climate change risks in specific areas throughout the state and access easy-to-understand resources for local planning efforts.

Coastal Resilience Decision Support System

Coastal residents and planners use this suite of GIS-based tools to visualize flood risks from sea level rise and storm surge and identify areas and populations at risk.

Digital Shoreline Analysis System

Given two or more historical positions of a shoreline or other feature on a map, this ArcGIS extension will compute rates of change.

Gulf TREE (Tools for Resilience Exploration Engine)

This site walks Gulf Coast users through a decision-support tree framework to match them with relevant climate resilience tools.

Intensity Duration Frequency Curves for New York State: Future Projections for a Changing Climate

Engineers in New York State can use this website to determine future changes in rainfall recurrence intervals.

National Risk Index (NRI)

This online mapping tool provides an at-a-glance overview of multiple risk factors related to natural hazards. The comprehensive view can assist communities as they set priorities for their resilience efforts.

Neighborhoods at Risk

View local maps of socioeconomic and climate data to identify communities that may be vulnerable to extreme weather and climate change, now and in the future. Obtain authoritative reports and data to make informed decisions when prioritizing capital improvements, informing land use and policy decisions, and updating Hazard Mitigation Plans.

Our Coast, Our Future

Coastal resource managers and planners in the San Francisco Bay region can use locally relevant, online maps and tools to explore, visualize, and anticipate vulnerabilities related to sea level rise and storms.

Precip.net: Extreme Precipitation in New York and New England

Researchers can use this resource to assess extreme rainfall return frequency for New York and New England, using an alternate methodology to that used in NOAA Atlas 14.

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Precipitation Frequency Data Server (PFDS)

Access precipitation frequency estimates for precipitation depth or intensity as tables, graphs, or GIS layers for any location in the contiguous United States.

Surging Seas—Sea Level Rise Analysis by Climate Central

View threats from sea level rise and storm surge for any coastal town or city in the contiguous United States. The site's Risk Finder interface offers additional analyses for selected states.

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Sustainable Jersey

This website provides an example of an established program that empowers communities to build a better world for future generations with the tools, training and financial incentives necessary to pursue critical sustainability initiatives at the state-wide level.

USFS Climate Gallery - Effects of Climate Change on Infrastructure and Recreation in California StoryMap

This StoryMap allows land managers to view maps showing a variety of climate vulnerabilities overlaid on key Forest Service recreation and infrastructure resources in California.

Vulnerability Assessment Scoring Tool (VAST)

This Microsoft Excel®-based spreadsheet file guides transportation personnel in conducting a quantitative, indicator-based vulnerability screen of their transportation assets.