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.

AdaptMap Jamaica Bay

This online mapping tool for New York's Jamaica Bay allows users to compare and contrast historical, present day, and potential future landscapes against an array of sea level and storm tide scenarios.

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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.

AgBiz Logic

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

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.

Climate4Cities

This project by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln supported municipal climate adaptation in the Missouri River Basin. The project website hosts climate reports for 11 Midwestern cities and and an online data explorer for 10 states across middle America.

Creating Resilient Water Utilities

Drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater utility professionals can access the resources on this website to find tools, training, and technical assistance to help them increase resilience to extreme weather events.

Storm clouds loom along the coast of Atlantic City.

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.

FloodHelpNY

New York City homeowners can use this digital platform to learn about how they can protect their home and finances from flooding—which is expected to worsen with rising sea levels.

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Hudson River Flood Impact Decision Support System

This online mapping tool helps inform municipal planning decisions in New York's Hudson River Valley. Public officials, resource managers, and others can assess risk and identify areas suitable for flood mitigation efforts.

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Keeping Pace: A Short Guide to Navigating Sea-Level Rise Models

This site helps coastal decision makers select an appropriate sea level rise model for their situation. The brief guide describes various categories of sea level rise models and situations for which they are best applied.

Massachusetts Wildlife Climate Action Tool

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.

PINEMAP Decision Support System

Resource managers can use tools in this system to explore climate-based risks and opportunities for loblolly pine growth in planted forests in the southeastern U.S.

RVAgreen 2050 Climate Equity Index

Residents and planners in Richmond, Virginia, can use this tool to explore factors—including social equity—that could make their neighborhood more susceptible to impacts from climate change and other health and natural crises.

Screen capture from a graph generated by SNAP's Community Charts tool

Scenarios Network for Alaska + Arctic Planning (SNAP) Tools

Users in Alaska and Arctic regions near the northern polar extremes can access multiple tools that support climate science and data exploration, allowing for a local focus within the broader context of climate change.

Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Web Tools Comparison Matrix

Coastal management communities can use this chart to compare sea level rise and coastal flood tools available for their state. The matrix describes features of various tools to help planners decide which tool can meet their needs.

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.

mountainous landscape with a clear river running through the valley

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.

Climate Vulnerability Assessment in the Northern Rocky Mountains StoryMap Screenshot

USFS Climate Gallery - Climate Vulnerability Assessment in the Northern Rocky Mountains StoryMap

This StoryMap provides an understanding of the largest climate change adaptation effort on public lands to date, including participants from federal agencies and stakeholder organizations interested in a broad range of resource issues.