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.

Map of the contiguous USA indicating the distribution of properties at risk from flooding.

Risk Factor

Risk Factor quantifies a property’s comprehensive risk from environmental threats like flooding and wildfire. The tool also helps users understand how risks are shifting due to a changing environment.

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Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (Risk MAP) Program

This FEMA program helps communities identify, assess, communicate, and mitigate their flood risk through more precise flood mapping products, risk assessment tools, and support for planning and outreach.

RiverSMART—RiverWare Study Manager And Research Tool

This integrated set of tools and techniques enables researchers to facilitate large studies built upon the RiverWare modeling software.

RiverWare—A River and Reservoir Modeling Tool

This advanced water resource modeling tool gives licensed users a way to model any river basin. Users who would like to view the output of model runs can request a free RiverWare Viewer License.

Silver Jackets Program

This program brings together multiple state, federal, and sometimes tribal and local agencies to reduce the risk of—and enhance response and recovery from—flooding and other natural disasters in the United States.

Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL) Data Viewer

Resource managers and flood forecasters access SNOTEL (snow telemetry) data to monitor temperature, precipitation, and the amount of water stored as snowpack at remote mountain sites across the West.

Soak Up the Rain

This public outreach campaign and accompanying website offer individuals, municipalities, and organizations information on using green infrastructure to manage stormwater runoff and improve climate resilience.

Social Vulnerability Index

Decision makers can use this index—with an online mapping feature and downloadable data—to identify communities that may need support in preparing for hazards or recovering from disaster.

Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) Data Viewer

Monitor near real-time soil and weather conditions from a network of comprehensive automated weather stations. Data from the system can help determine optimal timing and amount of irrigation for crops and warn experts of impending drought.

Solar Roadmap™

Communities or organizations that want to increase the capacity of solar power in their region can use this comprehensive set of resources to learn about relevant policies and best practices for encouraging adoption of solar power.

States At Risk

Explore how each state is affected by extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and coastal and inland flooding.

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Storm Water Management Model

Urban planners and landscape designers use this downloadable program to simulate the quality and quantity of rainfall over urban and suburban areas.

Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Health Care Facilities Toolkit

This toolkit includes a best practices document, a framework describing affordable measures that can help make health care facilities more resilient, and resources for responding to challenges associated with climate change impacts.

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Tackling Barriers to Green Infrastructure: An Audit of Municipal Codes and Ordinances

This workbook helps communities review, revise, and prioritize local codes and ordinances to promote and advance green infrastructure implementation.

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Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX)

This program matches volunteer scientists with community leaders across the globe to advance local projects related to natural hazards, natural resources, and climate change.

Tree Species Risks

Use this website to access resources on forest vulnerability in the Northeast, Great Lakes, and Midwest.

Tribal Climate Change Guide

Tribal, First Nation, and Alaska Native communities—along with federal, academic, non-profit, and other partners—use this web-based clearinghouse to access a broad range of climate resources.

Tribal Resilience Action Database

This database presents a culturally sensitive, easily accessible, and useful database of climate adaptation strategies and community examples already published by Tribes across the nation.

U.S. Climate Extremes Index

Look for trends in how the incidence of various climate extremes (as defined by the Climate Extremes Index) has changed over time in the United States or one of its regions.

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U.S. Climate Outlooks

Access outlook maps showing experts' judgments of chances for above-, below-, or near-average temperature and precipitation for a range of future periods. Maps also show potential hazards and conditions related to drought.

U.S. Drought Portal

Access a range of information and services related to drought including early warnings, climate data, and decision support services.

United States Interagency Elevation Inventory

View a nationwide listing of known high-accuracy topographic and bathymetric data, with descriptive data and direct links or contact information to access each dataset.

USA National Phenology Network

Explore climate change and variability through phenology—seasonal changes in plants and animals from year to year. Use tools and access data collected by citizen scientists, government agencies, educators, and students of all ages.

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USFS Climate Gallery - Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments Across the Nation StoryMap

This StoryMap and the associated interactive dashboard illustrate where climate change vulnerability assessments have been completed across all US Forest Service regions.

VegScape—Vegetation Condition Explorer

Access daily, weekly, or bi-weekly maps of satellite imagery indicating the health of crops and natural vegetation.

Virtual Beach

This decision-support software package generates statistical models to predict levels of disease-causing pathogens at specific beach sites. Managers can use it to help guide decisions on beach closures for public health reasons.

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Visualizing Ecosystem Land Management Assessments (VELMA) Model

VELMA is a tool designed to model effective decisions for a wide array of environmental issues. It is a spatially explicit ecohydrological watershed model that planners can use to visualize the effects of their decisions.

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.

Vulnerability Self-Assessment Tool (VSAT)

Drinking water and wastewater utilities of all sizes can use this tool to determine their vulnerability to both man-made and natural hazards and evaluate potential improvements to enhance their security and resiliency.

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Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) System

This user-friendly, downloadable software tool takes an integrated approach to water resources planning, simulating both the natural and engineered components of water systems and allowing planners access to a more comprehensive view of managing water resources.

Water Resources Dashboard

Water resource managers and urban planners use this dashboard for convenient access to maps and data that help them monitor the potential for extreme precipitation and drought in their regions.

WaterWatch

Access maps, graphs, and tables describing real-time, recent, and past streamflow conditions for the United States, including Alaska, Hawai'i, and Puerto Rico.

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Weather-Ready Nation | Extreme Heat Social Media Toolkit

Share critical information about extreme heat on social media.

Web Soil Survey

Zoom in on a map of the United States and outline an area of interest to access a soil map and descriptions of soils for that location. Access additional information to determine the suitability of the soils for particular uses, or download data for further analysis in desktop tools.

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