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.

ACIS Climate Maps

Quickly generate maps of temperature and precipitation variables over various periods for states or regions of the United States.

Giant storm waves splash above sea wall and the road is beginning to flood.

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.

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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, and generate reports about flooding impacts to support planning efforts.

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AdaptWest Climate Adaptation Planning Database

Planners can access data and detailed information for much of North America to compare conservation approaches and inform planning.

Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service

This comprehensive suite of graphical forecast products shows a range of information on current and projected river levels for almost 4,000 stations in the contiguous United States.

AgBiz Logic

Farmers, ranchers, and land managers can use this suite of digital tools to aid in economic, financial, and environmental decision making.

Annual Greenhouse Gas Index

Compare the total warming effect of heat-trapping gases in Earth's atmosphere to their level in 1990.

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.

Bioenergy Knowledge Discovery Framework

Access datasets, publications, and models that support development of a bioenergy industry for the United States from this comprehensive resource. Use the site's map interface to visualize, analyze, download, and/or export geospatial data.

Biofuels Atlas

Compare and analyze biomass feedstocks, biofuels infrastructure, and biofuels use in the United States on this interactive map. Users can zoom to a region or state and conduct a range of simple analyses with selected data.

Biopower Atlas

Compare and analyze biomass feedstocks, biopower infrastructure, and environmental impacts in the United States on this interactive map. Zoom to a region or state and conduct a range of simple analyses with selected data.

Carbon Storage in Forests

Examine estimates for total carbon storage in forests in the contiguous United States, and trends of how stored carbon changed from 1990 to 2013.

CarbonScapes

A national look at carbon landscapes and a central location for the USDA carbon inventory, modeling, and mapping of terrestrial biosphere carbon.

CarbonTracker

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

map of the areas surrounding Asheville, NC with census tracts of certain areas greyed out.

Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool

This interactive map shows information about the climate, environmental, health, and socioeconomic burdens that communities are facing throughout the nation.

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 at a Glance Application

Comprehensively explore the question “Climate variability or climate change?”

Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal

Explore questions related to climate change impacts on human health through this online database of global scientific literature on the topic.

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 Futures Toolbox

This open-source R package gives easy climate data access (MACA v2) to managers and climate impacts researchers in support of climate scenario planning.

Climate Mapper Tool

Explore interactive maps for the contiguous United States that display relevant past and projected future climate information to assist with decisions related to agriculture, drought, and fire conditions.

Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation

Check local exposure to climate-related hazards, now and in the future.

Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT) Climate Scenarios Projection Map

Water utilities can use this map to understand how climate change may affect their ability to maintain and deliver adequate, reliable, and sustainable water supplies and clean water services.

Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT) Streamflow Projections Map

Explore historical streamflow and projections for low, average, and high flows based on potential precipitation patterns.

Climate Toolbox

This collection of web tools designed for agriculture, drought, and fire management allows users to visualize past and projected climate and hydrology over the contiguous United States.

CMIP Climate Data Processing Tool

Transportation planners can use this Microsoft Excel®-based spreadsheet file to process raw climate model outputs into relevant statistics, such as changes in the frequency of very hot days and extreme precipitation events.

Coastal Resilience Decision Support System

Coastal residents and planners use this suite of GIS-based tools to visualize flood risks from sea level rise and storm surge and identify areas and populations at risk.

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 Risk Screening Tool

Explore coastal flood risk and sea level rise projections for nearly any coastal location in the world. Users can adjust variables such as decadal year, water level, pollution scenario, sea level rise model, and elevation data. También disponible en Español.