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.

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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 Hydrologic Prediction Service

This comprehensive suite of graphical forecast products shows a range of information on current and projected river levels for almost 4,000 stations in the contiguous United States.

Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF) Toolbox

This downloadable GIS toolset can help conservation planners, landowners, and researchers better manage watershed runoff while supporting agricultural production, as well as to identify appropriate locations for implementing conservation options in a watershed.

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Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin Drought & Water Dashboard

Decision makers can access real-time information and interactive maps describing drought conditions across the ACF River Basin.

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Aquatic Connectivity Assessment and Prioritization Tool

Users in the North Atlantic—from Maine to West Virginia—can access this database and these tools to help identify bridges and culverts that impede aquatic connectivity.

Chucktown Floods: Adapting to Flooding in Charleston

Local resources to help people monitor and adapt to flooding in the Lowcountry of Charleston County, South Carolina.

Climate Explorer

Explore climate projections for any county in the United States. For the contiguous U.S., you can compare maps of past and projected conditions for coming decades or consult historical records to see when weather has veered outside of normal climate.

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.

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 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.

Coral Reef Watch—Satellite Monitoring Decision Support System

Marine managers can use this NOAA site to prepare for and respond to environmental stress on coral reef ecosystems, especially stress caused by climate variability and change.

Creating Resilient Water Utilities - Storm Surge Inundation Map

Utilities can use this map to understand their potential for flooding. The inclusion of real-time storms and flood advisories helps water utilities assess flood risk and plan ahead to lessen the severity of flood damage.

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.

Drought Impacts Toolkit

Report and view wet, dry, and normal conditions and drought impacts.

Drought Risk Atlas

Access pre-computed drought indices for more than 4,000 locations across the United States.

emPOWER Map

Hospitals, first responders, electric companies, and community members can use this interactive online map to view information about Medicare beneficiaries who rely on electricity-dependent medical and assistive equipment and severe weather events that may put them at risk for power outages.

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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.

Flood Inundation Mapper

This interactive, online map tool helps communities visualize potential flooding scenarios, identify areas and resources that may be at risk, and enhance their local response effort during a flooding event.

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.

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.

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.

Iowa Flood Information System

This one-stop web platform facilitates access to community-based flood conditions, forecasts, visualizations, and inundation maps and flood-related data, information, and applications.

Landslide Overview Map

Researchers can view—and download shapefiles of the landslide data—from this preliminary digital version of a national landslide susceptibility map.

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 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.

NEWA—Network for Environment and Weather Applications

Growers in the Northeast can use this website to help make planting, pest management, and a range of other weather- and climate-based agricultural decisions.

OnTheMap for Emergency Management

Easily retrieve real-time reports containing detailed workforce, population, and housing characteristics for areas being affected by natural disasters.

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.

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Resilient and Connected Landscapes

This project from The Nature Conservancy maps resilient lands and significant climate corridors across Eastern North America.

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.

RiverSMART—RiverWare Study Manager And Research Tool

This integrated set of tools and techniques enables researchers to facilitate large studies built upon the RiverWare modeling software.

RiverWare—A River and Reservoir Modeling Tool

This advanced water resource modeling tool gives licensed users a way to model any river basin. Users who would like to view the output of model runs can request a free RiverWare Viewer License.

Rocky Mountains–High Plains Climate Dashboard

Access an array of images for climate, drought, agricultural conditions, and water-supply monitoring for the Rocky Mountains and High Plains.

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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.

SERVIR

Fishermen monitor environmental conditions in the ocean to help them avoid fishing near harmful algal blooms in regions of Mesoamerica, Africa, and Himalya.

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