U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

This online resource presents legal and policy tools, best and emerging practices, and case studies to support peer learning and decision making around managed retreat and climate adaptation.

Users in Massachusetts can access this tool to better understand the vulnerability of fish, wildlife, and natural resources to climate change, learn how to implement adaptation actions on the ground, and explore climate data and projections.

This professional software package helps engineers better predict the power of wind-waves, providing key input to breakwater design, wave agitation, and dynamic ship mooring modeling by establishing wave conditions adjacent to ports and terminals.

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

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.

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.

Municipal officials, educators, and citizens can use this site to quickly connect to information about how to reduce the risk of damage from coastal hazards and get involved with coastal adaptation projects in New Hampshire.

View detailed maps and photos of New Jersey communities as they look today, and compare them to visualizations showing one to six feet of sea level rise. This tool provides information for people who need to make individual or community decisions about local flooding hazards.

Regional conservation managers in the Northeast United States can view, retrieve, and perform analyses on spatial information as they consider how to meet specific conservation goals.

The mission of NERACOOS is to produce, integrate, and communicate high-quality information that helps ensure safety, economic, and environmental resilience and sustainable use of the coastal ocean.

Draw a custom area anywhere in U.S. waters or pick from a predefined list of locations to get instant custom reports that include descriptive infographics and supporting data for offshore planning, permitting, environmental review, and public relations.

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.

Researchers can use this resource to assess extreme rainfall return frequency for New York and New England, using an alternate methodology to that used in NOAA Atlas 14.

This project from The Nature Conservancy maps resilient lands and significant climate corridors across Eastern North America.

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.

Assess past and current climate conditions using an array of interactive products.

Zoom in or enter an address to view local maps of Delaware’s shoreline; adjust a slider to see areas likely to be inundated by various sea level rise scenarios.