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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Response Framework

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

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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.

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.

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Dibaginjigaadeg Anishinaabe Ezhitwaad: A Tribal Climate Adaptation Menu

This menu aligns with the Adaptation Workbook and other published adaptation menus, providing a framework to integrate indigenous and traditional knowledge, culture, language, and history into the climate adaptation planning process.

Environmental Resilience Institute Toolkit (ERIT)

This interactive resource helps decision makers create an integrated package of information about climate change tailored specifically to their community and their needs.

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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.

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G-WOW (Guiding for Tomorrow) Changing Climate, Changing Culture Initiative

Incorporating scientific research with place-based evidence, this unique approach increases awareness of climate change impacts around Lake Superior. Outreach tools include a web-based service learning curriculum and educator training.

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Great Lakes Coastal Resilience Planning Guide

This guidebook shows how Great Lakes counties and municipalities can use science-based information to address coastal hazards and incorporate concerns for climate change in local planning efforts.

Great Lakes Shoreviewer

Residents and businesses along Michigan's coastline can view aerial photographs and potential risk rankings for coastal property, buildings, roads, and infrastructure.

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Great Lakes Silviculture Library

Forest managers in the Great Lakes can use this library to exchange forest plans and learn about the outcomes of on-the-ground management activities.

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Heat Watch Campaigns

Over the past five years, the NOAA Office of Education, NOAA Climate Program Office, and the National Integrated Heat Health Information System have funded CAPA Heat Watch to support 40+ communities across the United States in mapping their urban heat islands.

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.

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Midwest Glacial Lakes Partnership Conservation Planner

Access data to inform communication, management, and research that benefits fish habitat and lake ecosystems in the Great Lakes, Midwest, and Northern Great Plains.

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National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy

Use this framework to take immediate, effective action toward building ecosystem resilience and maintaining ecosystem services in the face of climate challenges.

National Sea Grant Resilience Toolkit

Search for tools and resources developed by the Sea Grant Network to help coastal communities across the nation become more resilient.

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National Weather Service | National Seasonal Safety Campaign

Individuals, communities, and professionals can access seasonal resources to help them be prepared for extreme weather, water, and climate events.

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National Weather Service | Office of Services Publications

Visit this website to download publications, brochures, and booklets to help prepare for weather emergencies.

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.