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.

Managing Drought Risk on the Ranch

This planning guide for Great Plains ranchers provides information on how to manage drought.

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Midwest Glacial Lakes Partnership Conservation Planner

Access data to inform communication, management, and research that benefits fish habitat and lake ecosystems in the Great Lakes, Midwest, and Northern Great Plains.

Missouri River Basin Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook

Each issue of this two-page report describes weather and climate highlights from the previous quarter, and indicates the most likely temperature and precipitation conditions for the upcoming quarter.

NASA Disasters Mapping Portal

Find news, maps, and apps on recent Earth science disasters including information on response, recovery, and early warning systems.

National Climate Change Viewer

Display maps, climographs, and histograms of projected change in temperature and precipitation from models in the CMIP5 experiment. Focus on any state, county, or hydrologic unit in the contiguous United States.

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National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy

Use this framework to take immediate, effective action toward building ecosystem resilience and maintaining ecosystem services in the face of climate challenges.

National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS)

This online portal provides information and resources to help communities understand—and prepare for—the health impacts of extreme heat.

National Snow Analyses

Access real-time maps showing snow analyses across the contiguous United States.

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National Stormwater Calculator—Climate Assessment Tool

This desktop application provides estimates for the amount of rainwater and frequency of runoff anywhere in the United States. Its primary use is to inform site developers on how well they can meet a desired stormwater retention target with and without the use of green infrastructure.

National Water Information System: Mapper

This online, map-based tool provides access to water-related data for over 1.5 million sites in the United States. The data can be viewed in a web browser or downloaded in several different formats.

National Water Model

Emergency managers, reservoir operators, and other decision makers can consult the supercomputer-powered National Water Model for detailed forecasts of soil moisture, surface runoff, snow water equivalent, and other parameters.

Thin layer of dredged sediment being spread to raise the target elevation for vegetation in this marsh

Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Highway Resilience: An Implementation Guide

This Implementation Guide is designed to help transportation practitioners understand how and where nature-based and hybrid solutions can be used to improve the resilience of coastal roads and bridges.

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.

NEWA—Network for Environment and Weather Applications

Growers in the Northeast can use this website to help make planting, pest management, and a range of other weather- and climate-based agricultural decisions.

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NOAA Climate Change Web Portal—Land and Rivers

Display or download climate projection output for from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) that informed the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.

NOAA's Weather and Climate Toolkit

Download or launch this tool to help you sift through and visualize gigabytes of weather and climate data.

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North Central Climate Collaborative Webinar Series

Access an archive of webinars related to climate and water pertinent to the north central United States.

Northwest Climate Data Resources

This compilation of user-contributed data resources can help natural and cultural resource managers research and plan responses to the challenges of climate change in the Pacific Northwest.

OpenClimateGIS Software

With this downloadable software package, users gain ready access to climate model datasets in commonly used, modern geospatial formats used by GIS software, browser-based mapping tools, and virtual globes.

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Pasture, Rangeland, Forage Support Tool

Farmers, ranchers, and their crop insurance agents evaluate insurance programs to select appropriate coverage for managing risks.

Planning Framework for a Climate-Resilient Economy

Municipal officials interested in improving the resilience of their economy can use this flexible tool to get a "big picture" assessment of their climate vulnerabilities or to dive deeper and map out specific economic impacts or threats and business opportunities.

A large branch of a tree burns during a wildfire

Planning Framework for Protecting Commercial Building Occupants from Smoke During Wildfire Events

This planning framework provides recommended heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and building measures to minimize occupant exposures and health impacts from smoke during wildfire and prescribed burn events.

POWER Project Services Platform

NASA's Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project offers user communities data for solar and wind powered renewable energy systems, estimated building energy efficiency, and agroclimatology for crop models.

Quick Drought Response Index (QuickDRI)

Designed to detect rapid-onset, “flash drought” events, which can have devastating economic impacts on the agricultural sector and can quickly change conditions during a drought.

R Statistical Analysis Software

R is an open-source language and environment for a variety of statistical and graphical analysis techniques.

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Ready Campaign

Find information on how you and your family can best prepare to deal with a natural disaster or weather-related emergency. The site includes information for building an emergency supply kit and making a family emergency plan.

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Ready Campaign | Extreme Heat Safety Social Media Toolkit

Heat safety messages and graphics for use in social media outreach campaigns.

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Ready Campaign | Military Family Preparedness

Military personnel and their families can access information to help them be prepared for all types of emergencies. Specific Ready programs are available for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard.

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Recognizing, Preventing, and Treating Heat-Related Illness

This online training course helps coaches, school nurses, students, and parents understand heat-related illness in student athletes.

Regional Adaptation Collaborative Toolkit

Groups interested in forming local or regional adaptation networks can build on this framework. Developed in California, the framework can be used elsewhere to help groups learn of successful strategies and adapt them for their own use.

Residential Energy Demand Temperature Index

Access and interact with data on population-weighted heating and cooling degree days in the United States since 1895.

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Resilience Assessment Resources and Projects

Natural resource managers can access a downloadable workbook and a database of ongoing projects to assess resilience in social-ecological systems.

Resilient Agriculture: Weather Ready Farms eFieldbook

This "eFieldbook" provides a complete set of resources, tools, and information to help users understand and develop "Resilient Agriculture: Weather Ready Farms" programs.

RETScreen

This feasibility and energy performance analysis tool can help decision makers assess the potential for incorporating renewable energy.

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.

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