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.

Hawai'i Flood Hazard Assessment Tool

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

Historical Hurricane Tracks

Explore locations and severity of tropical cyclones recorded around the world since 1842.

Intensity Duration Frequency Curves for New York State: Future Projections for a Changing Climate

Engineers in New York State can use this website to determine future changes in rainfall recurrence intervals.

Inundation Analysis Tool

Coastal managers can query observations of select tidal gauges to find out how often and for how long local tides reached a specified elevation throughout their history.

IPCC AR6 Sea Level Projection Tool

Visualize and download the sea level projection data from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).

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.

NASA Earth Observations for Electric Utility Applications StoryMap

People who work with electric utilities can find data sources for key variables, parameters, and environmental issues in this web app. The main focus is on easy-to-access and easy-to-use datasets, products, and visualization tools

National Marine Ecosystem Status (NaMES)

This website provides data on major marine ecosystem indicators, capturing the status and trends of seven U.S. ecosystem regions, as well as an overall national status. It also directs users to more detailed sources of NOAA data and information.

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.

NOAA Tides & Currents

Individuals and businesses in coastal communities can find current and historical data, analyses, and publications on tides, currents, water levels, and other relevant topics to help them assess their local risks.

OceanReports

Draw a custom area anywhere in U.S. waters or pick from a predefined list of locations to get instant custom reports that include descriptive infographics and supporting data for offshore planning, permitting, environmental review, and public relations.

Oregon Coastal Atlas

This website offers a collection of digital tools and background information to inform decision making for the Oregon Coastal Zone.

Our Coast, Our Future

Coastal resource managers and planners in the San Francisco Bay region can use locally relevant, online maps and tools to explore, visualize, and anticipate vulnerabilities related to sea level rise and storms.

Pacific Island Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)

Local government agencies, residents, and visitors can find real-time coastal and ocean observations as well as wave and water-level forecasts for many islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Pacific Island Sea Level Forecasts

This experimental product provides an outlook of monthly sea level anomalies for the next one to two seasons. We combine sea level forecasts with astronomical tide predictions to provide more accurate predictions of coastal water level compared to tide predictions alone.

Precip.net: Extreme Precipitation in New York and New England

Researchers can use this resource to assess extreme rainfall return frequency for New York and New England, using an alternate methodology to that used in NOAA Atlas 14.

Precipitation and Applications Viewer

View and download global precipitation data and flood and landslide nowcasts.

Photomosaic of an area of the Puerto Rican coastline circa 1930

Puerto Rico 1930 Georeferenced: A Coastal Mosaic

Download georeferenced aerial photographs from 1930 for the coastal areas of Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico Climate Change Council Website

Individuals, businesses, and municipalities working on climate adaptation in Puerto Rico can find information about climate change and local adaptation projects, as well as contact information for people working on climate change issues in Puerto Rico.

Map of the contiguous USA indicating the distribution of properties at risk from flooding.

Risk Factor

Risk Factor quantifies a property’s comprehensive risk from environmental threats like flooding and wildfire. The tool also helps users understand how risks are shifting due to a changing environment.

Screen capture from the Sea Level Rise Tool for Sandy Recovery

Sea Level Rise Tool for Sandy Recovery—New Jersey and New York

Examine detailed maps of of New York and New Jersey to see areas impacted by flooding from Superstorm Sandy and areas likely to be inundated by four different sea level rise scenarios.

Sea Level Rise Tool for Sandy Recovery—New York City

Examine detailed maps of New York City to see areas impacted by flooding from Superstorm Sandy and areas likely to be inundated by four different sea level rise scenarios.

Sea Level Trends

View regional trends showing the direction and magnitude of sea level change at 240 sites around the world. Click any site for a detailed time-series graph and the long-term linear trend.

Simple Planning Tool for Louisiana Climate Hazards

This stakeholder-inspired tool provides a practical solution to assist planners and emergency managers in the state of Louisiana in incorporating accurate climate data into their planning processes.

GOES-East satellite RGB composite image from August 25th, 2017

Simple Planning Tool for Texas Climate Hazards

This stakeholder-inspired tool provides a practical solution to assist planners and emergency managers in the state of Texas in incorporating accurate climate data into their planning processes.

Map of Southeast with areas shaded in purple

Southeast Conservation Blueprint

This living spatial plan identifies priority areas for a connected network of lands and waters across the Southeast and Caribbean. It is helping organizations bring in new funding and inform their conservation decisions.

Southeast Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook

Each issue of this two-page report describes the region's weather and climate highlights from the previous quarter, and indicates the most likely temperature and precipitation conditions for the upcoming quarter.

Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS) | An IOOS Regional Data Portal

This science-based decision support system provides scientific data and information necessary to address coastal issues in the Southern California region.

Southern Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook

Each issue of this two-page report describes weather and climate highlights from the previous quarter, and indicates the most likely temperature and precipitation conditions for the upcoming quarter.

Storm Events Database

Access National Weather Service storm data and unusual weather phenomenon reports from 1950 to the present.

SURGEDAT

Visit the world's storm surge data center, providing information on over 700 global tropical surge events and more than 8,000 high water marks from surges along the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coasts.

Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast Viewer

This experimental product shows model-predicted water water levels along the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next 6 days.

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.

Francis Marion National Forest: Adapting to Climate Change StoryMap Screenshot

USFS Climate Gallery - Francis Marion National Forest: Adapting to Climate Change StoryMap

This StoryMap describes first, how climate change is transforming the Francis Marion National Forest; second, how land changes and urbanization are affecting the area; and third, how land managers can improve the resilience of these lands to changing conditions.

A screenshot of the FEV centered on the American east coast showing the path of the 2020 hurricane delta

USGS Flood Event Viewer

Explore hydrology and meteorology data related to specific flood events from 1888 through the present.

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