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.

Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET)

Access timely data on rainfall, crop health, and other factors that can affect food production and supply in food-insecure nations.

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Federal Highway Administration Scenario Planning Guidebook

Transportation agencies can use this guidebook for scenario planning to address transportation issues, changes in land use, and population growth or decline, as well as climate change and uses of alternative energy.

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FEMA All Hazards Mobile App

Download this mobile app to easily access important information on over 20 types of hazards, including floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes.

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FEMA Flood Map Service Center

Users can find, view, analyze, and print flood hazard maps from FEMA.

FEMA National Resilience Guidance: A Collaborative Approach to Building Resilience

This guidebook is intended to help all individuals, communities, and organizations understand our nation’s vision for resilience, the key principles that must be applied to strengthen resilience, and the players and systems that contribute to resilience.

Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)

View and download satellite data showing near real-time active fire locations worldwide.

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.

Flood Resilience Checklist

Local governments, community organizations, and nonprofits can use the checklist to assess their community’s readiness to prepare for, deal with, and recover from floods.

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Flood Resilience: A Basic Guide for Water and Wastewater Utilities

Water utility personnel can work through this straightforward guide to document the threat of flooding at their utilities, identify specific vulnerabilities and potential mitigation options, and develop an implementation plan to increase their resilience to flooding.

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.

FloodZoneData.us

Check the number and type of housing units built within floodplains by state, county, or census tract. View data on an interactive map or download data for further analysis.

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.

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.

Geothermal Prospector

Explore map layers—such as geothermal potential, energy infrastructure, and leasing/ownership information—to determine locations that may be favorable for geothermal energy development.

Getting to Resilience

This self-assessment guide for communities in New Jersey links planning with climate change mitigation and adaptation to reduce vulnerability and increase preparedness.

Giovanni—Geospatial Interactive Online Visualization and Analysis Infrastructure

Use this web app to visualize, analyze, and access vast amounts of earth science remote sensing data.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Discover the locations where plant and animal species have been documented. Access this database to support scientific, educational, and policy-making activities regarding species occurrence and distribution.

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.

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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.

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Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Decision-Support Tool

People involved in coastal wetland conservation management can use this mapping tool to interact with information relevant to Great Lakes coastal wetland conservation and management. This includes accessing data, viewing and ranking wetlands, and using results for further analysis.