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.

Advanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC)

ADCIRC is a system of computer programs for solving time dependent, free surface circulation and transport problems in two and three dimensions. These programs utilize the finite element method in space allowing the use of highly flexible, unstructured grids.

AgBiz Logic

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

Climate Change Adaptation Tools for Transportation

Access Federal Highway Administration tools and publications for improving resilience to extreme weather events and future environmental conditions.

Climate Change: Ecosystem Considerations

This website is a resource for fishing industry stakeholders, researchers, and the interested public, providing an introduction to climate change science, a summary of pertinent research, and climate change impacts on the fishing industry.

Climate Explorer

Explore climate projections for any county in the contiguous United States or borough in Alaska. Compare maps of past and projected conditions for coming decades. Consult historical records to see when weather has veered outside of normal climate.

Climate Smart Farming Tools

This suite of tools—which includes a growing degree day calculator, a water deficit calculator, a winter cover crop scheduler, a drought atlas, and grape/apple freeze risk tools—helps with decision making on irrigation, crop scheduling, and more.

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.

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.

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.

Data Basin

Diverse collaborative groups can use this mapping and analysis platform to support environmental stewardship projects. The platform enables citizens, students and educators, natural resource practitioners, and scientists to visualize, draw, comment, and discuss aspects of their project.

Department of Defense Regional Sea Level (DRSL) Database

Engineering firms can use this database to integrate future sea level change information for DoD facilities at coastal locations.

Hawaiʻi Sea Level Rise Viewer

This mapping tool gives users a way assess hazards and economic vulnerabilities associated with exposure to rising sea levels in Hawai'i.

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Heat and Social Inequity in the United States

This series of maps examines one of the most significant public health risks posed by climate change: heat vulnerability.

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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.

Local Sea Level Rise Two-Pager Template

Extension and outreach professionals can use this set of files to generate a two-page print document to communicate projected changes in local sea level and high-tide flooding.

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.

National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network

Explore health, exposure, and hazard information and data from a variety of national, state, and city sources through maps, tables, and charts.

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.