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.

Adaptation Resources for Agriculture - Responding to Climate Variability and Change in the Midwest and Northeast

This technical bulletin contains information and resources designed to help agricultural producers, service providers, and educators in the Midwest and Northeast regions of the United States integrate climate change considerations and action-oriented decisions into existing farm and conservation plans.

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.

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.

AdaptMap Jamaica Bay

This online mapping tool for New York's Jamaica Bay allows users to compare and contrast historical, present day, and potential future landscapes against an array of sea level and storm tide scenarios.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Being Prepared for Climate Change: A Workbook for Developing Risk-Based Adaptation Plans

Organizations that manage environmental resources can use this guide to prepare a broad, risk-based adaptation plan.

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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.

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 Against Climate Effects (BRACE) Framework

Communities can use this five-step process from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prepare for the health effects of climate change.

CarbonTracker

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

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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 Resource Hub for Fishing Communities

This resource hub combines community-specific information on climate-driven shifts of marine species with potential adaptation options.

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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 Change Adaptation Resource Center (ARC-X)

Create an integrated package of climate change adaptation information tailored specifically to your geographic location and/or area of interest.

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Climate Change Atlas for Tree and Bird Species

Find information about species of trees and birds in the eastern United States, including maps that show projections of where suitable (and unsuitable) habitat for these species will be in the future.

Climate Change Preparedness and Resiliency Checklist

The City of Boston requires new construction and redevelopment projects to consider present and future climate conditions. This checklist helps decision makers consider the range of issues building and their inhabitants may face.

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.

Climate Change Response Framework

This collaborative, cross-boundary approach among scientists, managers, and landowners incorporates climate change considerations into natural resource management.

Climate Change: Ecosystem Considerations

This website is a resource for fishing industry stakeholders, researchers, and the interested public, providing an introduction to climate change science, a summary of pertinent research, and climate change impacts on the fishing industry.

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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 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 Smart Farming Tools

This suite of tools—which includes a growing degree day calculator, a water deficit calculator, a winter cover crop scheduler, a drought atlas, and grape/apple freeze risk tools—helps with decision making on irrigation, crop scheduling, and more.

Climigration

Resources on this site encourage people to have conversations about managed retreat as one option for dealing with rising sea levels.

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Coastal and Waterfront SmartGrowth

Sustainable coastal development information, tools, and case studies for planners, local government officials, developers, residents, and other stakeholders.

Coastal Change Hazards Portal

This interactive map offers access to coastal change science and data on extreme storms, shoreline change, and sea level rise.

Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper

Explore local maps to stimulate discussions about the people, places, and natural resources exposed to coastal flooding. Create a collection of maps showing risk from various hazards.

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Coastal Flood Impacts for the City of Boston

Visualize flood impacts while planning and preparing for—and responding to—current and future coastal storms in Boston, Massachusetts.

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 Resilience Evaluation and Siting Tool (CREST)

Planners and natural resource managers can use this web tool to make informed decisions about the siting of restoration and resilience projects.

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.

Community Resource Guide for Planning Living Shorelines Projects

This guidebook provides community leaders, citizens, and contractors with guidance on key elements that should be considered when embarking on living shoreline projects.

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