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.

Sea Level Rise Viewer

Explore how the shoreline is likely to change with increasing amounts of sea level rise. This tool from NOAA's Office of Coastal Management lets you visualize the potential impacts of coastal flooding so you can prioritize actions for different scenarios.

Sea Level Trends

View regional trends showing the direction and magnitude of sea level change at 240 sites around the world. Click any site for a detailed time-series graph and the long-term linear trend.

Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) Model

This computerized numerical model estimates storm surge heights and is used by the National Hurricane Center to forecast storm surge and model storm surge vulnerability.

Soak Up the Rain

This public outreach campaign and accompanying website offer individuals, municipalities, and organizations information on using green infrastructure to manage stormwater runoff and improve climate resilience.

Social Vulnerability Index

Decision makers can use this index—with an online mapping feature and downloadable data—to identify communities that may need support in preparing for hazards or recovering from disaster.

Storm Surge Inundation and Hurricane Strike Frequency Map

Check the vulnerability of your neighborhood to flooding from storm surge. The map illustrates current worst-case coastal storm surge or inundation scenarios as well as hurricane strike frequency.

Screen capture of the Climate Adjustment Tool in the SWMM

Storm Water Management Model

Urban planners and landscape designers use this downloadable program to simulate the quality and quantity of rainfall over urban and suburban areas.

SURGEDAT

Visit the world's storm surge data center, providing information on over 700 global tropical surge events and more than 8,000 high water marks from surges along the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coasts.

Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Health Care Facilities Toolkit

This toolkit includes a best practices document, a framework describing affordable measures that can help make health care facilities more resilient, and resources for responding to challenges associated with climate change impacts.

Sustainable Facilities Tool

Access guidance and tools that can simplify the challenge of "greening" our buildings and reducing operating costs. Get answers to questions about efficiency, indoor quality, and conservation.

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Sustainable Jersey

This website provides an example of an established program that empowers communities to build a better world for future generations with the tools, training and financial incentives necessary to pursue critical sustainability initiatives at the state-wide level.

The Nature Conservancy's Conservation Gateway: Northeast Resilience Analysis and Datasets

This project identified places that will be more resilient to climate change and serve as natural strongholds for diversity into the future.

Tick Bite Data Tracker

Visualizations display national data on emergency department visits for tick bites by region, week/month, and age/sex.

Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast Viewer

This experimental product shows model-predicted water water levels along the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next 6 days.

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Tourism Resilience Index

This self-assessment tool helps business owners or managers predict if individual tourism businesses—or even a regional tourism industry—are prepared to maintain operations during and after disasters.

Tree Species Risks

Use this website to access resources on forest vulnerability in the Northeast, Great Lakes, and Midwest.

Treepedia

Scientists and city dwellers can use this interactive website to evaluate and compare urban tree coverage in cities across the globe.

Tribal Resilience Action Database

This database presents a culturally sensitive, easily accessible, and useful database of climate adaptation strategies and community examples already published by Tribes across the nation.

USA National Phenology Network

Explore climate change and variability through phenology—seasonal changes in plants and animals from year to year. Use tools and access data collected by citizen scientists, government agencies, educators, and students of all ages.

Climate Change and Adaptation: Mid-Atlantic Forests StoryMap Screenshot

USFS Climate Gallery - Climate Change and Adaptation: Mid-Atlantic Forests StoryMap

This StoryMap summarizes the best available information related to climate change about Mid-Atlantic forests from published research and local knowledge.

New England and Northern New York Forests StoryMap Screenshot

USFS Climate Gallery - Climate Change and Adaptation: New England and Northern New York Forests StoryMap

This StoryMap summarizes the best available knowledge related to climate change about the New England and Northern New York forests from published research and local knowledge.

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments StoryMap Screenshot

USFS Climate Gallery - Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments Across the Nation StoryMap

This StoryMap and the associated interactive dashboard illustrate where climate change vulnerability assessments have been completed across all US Forest Service regions.

Vermont Tick Tracker

This easy-to-use, map-based tool allows users to report tick bites, identify the tick species, and view where other tick bites have occurred.

Vermont Transportation Resilience Planning Tool (TRPT)

The Vermont Transportation Resilience Planning Tool (TRPT) is a web-based application that identifies bridges, culverts, and road embankments that are vulnerable to damage from floods.

White rocks line the bank of a stream in Washing County, USA.

Visualizing Ecosystem Land Management Assessments (VELMA) Model

VELMA is a tool designed to model effective decisions for a wide array of environmental issues. It is a spatially explicit ecohydrological watershed model that planners can use to visualize the effects of their decisions.

Water Resources Dashboard

Water resource managers and urban planners use this dashboard for convenient access to maps and data that help them monitor the potential for extreme precipitation and drought in their regions.

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