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 Rural Capacity Map

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

Adapting Stormwater Management for Coastal Floods

Community members can explore how past and future flooding can affect their stormwater systems and generate a report to inform planning efforts.

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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.

Advanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC)

ADCIRC is a system of computer programs for solving time dependent, free surface circulation and transport problems in two and three dimensions. These programs utilize the finite element method in space allowing the use of highly flexible, unstructured grids.

AgroClimate—Tools for Managing Climate Risk in Agriculture

Interactive tools and climate information provide support to improve crop management decisions and reduce production risks associated with climate variability, climate change, and extreme weather events in the southeastern United States.

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Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin Drought & Water Dashboard

Decision makers can access real-time information and interactive maps describing drought conditions across the ACF River Basin.

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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.

Carolinas Precipitation Patterns & Probabilities Atlas (c3p)

This digital atlas of hydroclimate extremes brings together information on precipitation patterns in the Carolinas over the past 120 years.

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Climate and Hazard Mitigation Planning (CHaMP) Tool

The CHaMP Tool was designed specifically to address the substantive and communications needs of individuals developing hazard mitigation plans as required by FEMA.

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 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 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 Inspector

Explore maps showing projected changes in temperature or precipitation for any location on the globe for four different emissions trajectories. View or download maps, trend data, or projected annual cycle data.

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.

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Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) Land Cover Atlas

Examine land cover classifications within coastal regions and how they changed from 1996 to 2010.

Coastal Inundation Dashboard

This dashboard brings water level data—including real-time, forecasts, storm surge, and historic flooding information—from over 200 coastal stations to your desktop.

Coastal Restoration Toolkit

This web-based toolkit offers a wealth of tools and resources to help coastal residents address flooding, coastal erosion, water quality, invasive species, and wildlife habitat restoration.

DamWatch

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

Eastern 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.

Energy Infrastructure with Flood Vulnerability

Examine map layers to assess which key energy infrastructure assets may be vulnerable to rising sea levels, storm surges, and flash flooding.

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Environmental Resilience Tools Wizard

This online tool was created to help state and local emergency managers, environmental or health agencies, and anyone who may not be familiar with EPA resources that help build community resilience to disasters.

Explore Climate Impacts

This interactive map—a companion to the Adaptation Workbook—lets you see how climate change may affect different regions and ecosystems in the U.S.

FEMA National Flood Insurance Program Community Rating System

This program helps communities reduce their flood risk and lower their flood insurance premium rates.

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.

Hazus-MH

Planners and emergency managers use this downloadable software package to access FEMA models that estimate potential losses from earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes and evaluate costs and benefits of mitigation options.

LASSO—Locating and Selecting Scenarios Online

GIS specialists who need climate projection data can locate, select, and download files of climate change projections that align with given research questions or objectives.

Midwest Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook

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

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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.

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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.