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.

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.

Underwater Photo of Kelp - Camille Pagniello, CA Sea Grant

Climate Adaptation Toolkit for Marine and Coastal Protected Areas

Marine Protected Area managers can use this collection of tools to evaluate the vulnerability of their sites to climate change, identify appropriate adaptation strategies, and learn about those strategies through case studies, reports, and other resources.

Climate Service Providers Database | NOAA Western Region

This "match-making app for the climate world" connects users of climate information with the wide array of information and services available in NOAA's Western Region.

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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 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 Rating System Explorer

This app that helps planners identify areas that are eligible for Open Space Preservation (OSP) credits in FEMA’s Community Rating System (CRS).

Community-Based Climate Adaptation Toolkit

Marine managers can find resources to engage communities in their efforts to manage, protect, and restore coral reefs and reef fisheries around the world.

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Emergency Assessment of Post-Fire Debris-Flow Hazards

Access assessments for post-fire debris-flow hazards related to select fires in the western United States.

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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.

St. Croix Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives

Tribes, agencies, and organizations can use this guide as a framework to increase understanding of issues relating to access and protection of traditional knowledges in climate initiatives.

Managed Retreat 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.

Thin layer of dredged sediment being spread to raise the target elevation for vegetation in this marsh

Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Highway Resilience: An Implementation Guide

This Implementation Guide is designed to help transportation practitioners understand how and where nature-based and hybrid solutions can be used to improve the resilience of coastal roads and bridges.

Northwest Climate Data Resources

This compilation of user-contributed data resources can help natural and cultural resource managers research and plan responses to the challenges of climate change in the Pacific Northwest.

Rapid Vulnerability & Adaptation Tool for Climate-Informed Community Planning

This worksheet helps communities compile readily available climate data and local knowledge to assess their climate vulnerability and collaboratively develop adaptation strategies.

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USFS Climate Gallery - Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation in the Intermountain Region StoryMap

This StoryMap provides a summary of the organizations and participants that worked with the Intermountain Adaptation Partnership (IAP) for over 2 years to identify climate change issues relevant to resource management on Forest Service and National Park Service lands in the IAP region.

West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments

These assessments provide a consistent, baseline assessment of climate change impacts to water supply and demand across the West, and complement the Basin Studies and Landscape Conservation Cooperatives within the WaterSMART Initiative.

Fire risk map showing higher risk in the urban-wildland interface

Wildfire Risk to Communities

Land use planners, fire managers, and elected officials can all use this site to understand, explore, and reduce wildfire risk in their communities.