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.

A Guide to Assessing Green Infrastructure Costs and Benefits for Flood Reduction

Communities can use this six-step process as a framework—and to spark discussion—when assessing the costs and benefits of green infrastructure projects.

A Rural Capacity Map

This tool helps to identify communities where investments in staffing and expertise are needed to support infrastructure and climate resilience projects.

ACIS Climate Maps

Quickly generate maps of temperature and precipitation variables over various periods for states or regions of the United States.

Adaptation Workbook

Land managers, natural resource professionals, and motivated landowners can use this structured process to consider the effects of climate change on forests, urban forests, and agricultural properties.

Giant storm waves splash above sea wall and the road is beginning to flood.

Adapting Stormwater Management for Coastal Floods

Communities can use this website to determine how the flooding of today and tomorrow can affect their stormwater systems.

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AdaptWest Climate Adaptation Planning Database

Planners can access data and detailed information for much of North America to compare conservation approaches and inform planning.

Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service

This comprehensive suite of graphical forecast products shows a range of information on current and projected river levels for almost 4,000 stations in the contiguous United States.

AirNow: Air Quality Index (AQI) Monitoring and Forecasts

Check current and projected air quality for locations across the United States and for parts of Canada and Mexico.

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Assessing Health Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Guide for Health Departments

Health departments can consult this document for guidance on conducting climate and health vulnerability assessments.

Aerial view of the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

Being Prepared for Climate Change: Checklists of Potential Climate Change Risks

This booklet contains a set of risk identification checklists to aid environmental professionals in identifying specific climate change vulnerabilities of their organization or place.

Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program—Community Edition (BenMAP-CE)

Estimate the health impacts and economic value of changes in air quality with this downloadable software. Training resources can help new users document the potential benefits of community efforts to improve air quality.

Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters

View maps and statistics on weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall costs reached or exceeded $1 billion.

Building Resilience

Visit this website from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to learn about building project and community resilience.

Carbon Storage in Forests

Examine estimates for total carbon storage in forests in the contiguous United States, and trends of how stored carbon changed from 1990 to 2013.

CarbonTracker

Access outputs, inputs, and/or code for this carbon dioxide measuring and modeling system that tracks sources and sinks around the globe.

Screenshot of current temperature conditions across the US

CDC Heat & Health Tracker

Extreme heat events have long threatened public health in the United States. The CDC Heat & Health Tracker provides local heat and health information so communities can better prepare for and respond to extreme heat events.

Climate Adaptation For DoD Natural Resource Managers

This guide and the accompanying documents and spreadsheets can help Department of Defense installation managers incorporate climate considerations into integrated natural resource management plans.

Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE)

Access adaptation case studies, virtual library resources, a directory of adaptation practitioners, and a database of relevant tools on this comprehensive website. Users can also participate in community forums or contribute resources.

Climate at a Glance

Generate graphs and maps of monthly temperature and precipitation values, ranks, and anomalies for the globe, contiguous U.S., states, climate divisions, and selected cities.

Climate at a Glance Application

Comprehensively explore the question “Climate variability or climate change?”

Climate Change Adaptation Tools for Transportation

Access Federal Highway Administration tools and publications for improving resilience to extreme weather events and future environmental conditions.

Climate Change Pressures in the 21st Century

This Story Map features three metrics that influence plant growth and survival and displays mapped projections of change throughout the century for the conterminous United States.

Climate Change Resource Center

Natural resource planners, land managers, and other decision makers can find usable science as well as approaches to adaptation and mitigation from the U.S. Forest Service to help them address climate change impacts.

air pollution bellowing out of tall industrial buildings.

Climate Effects on Health

Climate change, together with other natural and human-made health stressors, influences human health and disease in numerous ways.

Climate Explorer

Explore climate projections for any county in the United States. For the contiguous U.S., you can compare maps of past and projected conditions for coming decades or consult historical records to see when weather has veered outside of normal climate.

Climate Futures Toolbox

This open-source R package gives easy climate data access (MACA v2) to managers and climate impacts researchers in support of climate scenario planning.

Climate Mapper Tool

Explore interactive maps for the contiguous United States that display relevant past and projected future climate information to assist with decisions related to agriculture, drought, and fire conditions.

Climate Resilience Evaluation & Awareness Tool (CREAT)

Owners and operators of drinking water and wastewater utilities can use this web-based tool to assess potential climate change threats and evaluate adaption options at their sites.

Climate Toolbox

This collection of web tools designed for agriculture, drought, and fire management allows users to visualize past and projected climate and hydrology over the contiguous United States.

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Climate-Smart Conservation: Putting Adaptation Principles into Practice

Natural resource managers and conservation professionals can use this guide to help them incorporate climate considerations into their work.

COMET-Farm

Farmers and ranchers use this carbon accounting tool to estimate their operation’s greenhouse gas emissions and capacity for carbon sequestration, and to evaluate the impacts of alternative management strategies on their net emissions.

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Community-Based Water Resiliency (CBWR) Guide

Communities can use this downloadable guide to prepare for a water service interruption before an emergency occurs.

Creating Resilient Water Utilities

Drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater utility professionals can access the resources on this website to find tools, training, and technical assistance to help them increase resilience to extreme weather events.

DamWatch

Stakeholders of NCRS-assisted dams can receive real-time updates of rainfall, snowmelt, stream flow, and seismic events that could affect dam safety.

Drinking Water Mapping Application to Protect Source Waters (DWMAPS)

Community members can use this online mapping tool to find information about drinking water in their communities; professionals and planners can use the tool to update source water assessments and prioritize source water protection measures.

Drought Impacts Toolkit

Report and view wet, dry, and normal conditions and drought impacts.

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