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.

Food Access Research Atlas

View maps and download data on food access indicators by census tract, including low-income designation, distance to nearest supermarket, vehicle availability, and group quarters.

Food Environment Atlas

Users can view maps—and download data—for a variety of food environment factors, including store/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community socioeconomic and demographic characteristics.

ForWarn Forest Change Assessment Viewer

Resource managers and forest landowners can monitor forest health using satellite images taken every eight days. Tools help them attribute abnormalities to insects, disease, wildfire, storms, human development, or unusual weather.

FuelCast

This fuel and rangeland production forecasting system provides actionable geospatial intelligence for rangeland managers, fire specialists, and producers.

Future San Francisco Bay Tidal Marshes

Explore how sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay area may impact coastal marshes and the important ecosystem services and habitat they provide.

GeoHEALTH Platform

This secure GIS-based interactive mapping application incorporates information from many sources into a single visual environment for enhanced situational awareness, assessment, and management of resources for planning and response to natural, man-made, or pandemic events.

Global Ecosystems Map Viewer

Access map data on ecosystems and landforms for the contiguous United States, South America, and Africa. Maps are available at scales appropriate for local to global research, management, or planning applications.

Great Lakes Climate and Demographic Atlas

This interactive site shows how the social and economic characteristics of the Great Lakes region are impacted by regionally specific changes in climate.

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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.

Great Lakes Water Level Dashboard

Businesses and residents in the Great Lakes region can use this dashboard to visualize dynamic water levels and seasonal and long-term forecasts.

Groundwater Watch

Water managers can use these webpages to obtain basic statistics about water-level data from around 850,000 wells in the United States.

Gulf TREE (Tools for Resilience Exploration Engine)

This site walks Gulf Coast users through a decision-support tree framework to match them with relevant climate resilience tools.

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Hawai'i and U.S. Pacific Islands Region Climate Impacts and Outlook

Quarterly reports document recent climate conditions across the Pacific. The reports also provide precipitation forecasts for the coming season.

Hawai'i Climate Adaptation Portal

This website offers information on climate science and adaptation in Hawai'i. Users can also monitor the work of the state's Interagency Climate Adaptation Committee.

Hawai'i Coastal Erosion Website

This website provides the public and government partners with shoreline change data—such as maps, photos, and plots—to assist in coastal zone decision making.

Hawai'i Flood Hazard Assessment Tool

View flood zones in the Hawaiian Islands by parcel or location.

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.

Hazards Mapper and HazPop Mobile App

This online mapping application—along with an accompanying mobile app—was designed for those needing a quick assessment of the potential dangers posed by a major hazardous event or developing emergency.

Hazus-MH

Planners and emergency managers use this downloadable software package to access FEMA models that estimate potential losses from earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes and evaluate costs and benefits of mitigation options.

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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.

Heat Safety Tips

Communities and individuals can visit this National Weather Service website to learn about the health dangers of heat, prepare for excessive heat events, and find out what to do during an excessive heat wave.

The OSHA Heat Illness webpage displayed on an iPhone

Heat Safety Tool

Outdoor workers and their managers can access vital heat-safety information whenever and wherever they need it—right on their mobile phones.

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Heat Stress Toolkit

Employers and workers can visit this website to find resources and educational materials relating to occupational heat stress.

Hoosier Resilience Index

Local communities in Indiana can use this tool to better understand their readiness and risks for environmental and climate change.

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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.

HURREVAC

Local emergency managers use this storm tracking and decision support tool to help them make prudent decisions regarding the timing and extent of evacuations.

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Indigenous Health Indicators Tool

Native communities can use this tool—which incorporates connections to ecosystem health and social/cultural beliefs—to better evaluate and manage public environmental health risks and impacts.

Integrated Rapid Visual Screening for Buildings

This downloadable software package from the Department of Homeland Security helps users compile a preliminary assessment of the relative risk and resilience of 15 types of buildings to 20 hazardous events, including natural hazards such as floods and wind.