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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Hawai'i Social Network Analysis

Consult these social network maps of climate change stakeholders to find collaborators or experts in different fields of study or locations in Hawai'i and the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands region.

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Heat Island Community Actions Database

An index of steps taken by cities to reduce their local heat islands.

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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 Watch Campaigns

Over the past five years, the NOAA Office of Education, NOAA Climate Program Office, and the National Integrated Heat Health Information System have funded CAPA Heat Watch to support 40+ communities across the United States in mapping their urban heat islands.

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High Plains Regional Climate Center Climate Summaries

Access current and archived climate summaries for the High Plains on a monthly, quarterly, and annual time scale.

Historical Hurricane Tracks

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

Historical Sea Ice Atlas

View maps of historical sea ice extent and concentration in the oceans surrounding Alaska from the mid-1800s through today.

HUD Exchange: Natural Hazard Map and Funding Navigator

This interactive map provides customized information about your community’s risk ratings for 18 natural hazards and creates a pre-filtered list of funding opportunities that can help build resilience to hazards your community faces.

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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.

HydroGIS Viewer

Registered users can explore selected map layers from the National Hydropower Asset Assessment Program.

Imiq Data Portal

Access hydrology and climate data gathered across and around Alaska over time. A map interface shows where, what, and when data have been obtained. Submit a custom data query and the portal will aggregate and export data records from multiple sources in a common format.

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Indigenous Health Indicators Tool

Native communities can use this tool to better evaluate and manage public environmental health risks and impacts in six categories.

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.

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International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management

This set of guidelines provides practitioners with the best available information concerning the conceptualization, planning, design, engineering, construction, and maintenance of NNBF to support resilience and flood risk reduction for coastlines, bays, and estuaries, as well as river and freshwater systems.

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).

J-SCOPE (JISAO’s Seasonal Coastal Ocean Prediction of the Ecosystem)

Marine managers can use this site's forecasts to support the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA). Results provide forecast indicators requested by the Pacific Fishery Management Council.

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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.

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Lake Level Viewer: United States Great Lakes

Visualize impacts of increased and decreased water levels in the Great Lakes in an online viewer, or access data and services directly to perform customized analyses.

LANDFIRE

Access map layers, databases, and ecological models related to fire for the United States and some island territories. The site also features an array of useful Help features to assist new users in accomplishing common tasks.

Landslide Monitoring

Managers and planners in some states can access landslide inventory data from this website, part of a pilot project to develop a national landslide inventory database.

Landslide Overview Map

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

LASSO—Locating and Selecting Scenarios Online

GIS specialists who need climate projection data can locate, select, and download files of climate change projections that align with given research questions or objectives.

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Living Near Dams

Communities located downstream from dams can learn about risks and find information about how to react if they fail. Dam owners, safety officials, and lawmakers can learn how extreme rainfall events affect the risk of dam failure, and how to reduce those risks.

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Local Climate Analysis Tool (LCAT)

Meteorologists use this tool to link local weather and water events to climate variability and change in the global climate system.

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Local Environmental Observer (LEO) Network

Network members post unique or unusual environmental events onto public, web-based maps. The network provides a model for connecting community members with technical experts and resources.

MACA CMIP5 Statistically Downscaled Climate Projections

Access projection data produced through the Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (MACA) method. Variables available for the contiguous U.S. enable users to explore projections for hydrology, ecology, vegetation, fire, and wind.

Managing Drought Risk on the Ranch

This planning guide for Great Plains ranchers provides information on how to manage drought.

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.

Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARACOOS) | An IOOS Regional Data Portal

MARACOOS and its partners track storms and collect and distribute data related to storms and other extreme events impacting the East Coast, covering the region from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras.

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Midwest Glacial Lakes Partnership Conservation Planner

Access data to inform communication, management, and research that benefits fish habitat and lake ecosystems in the Great Lakes, Midwest, and Northern Great Plains.

Midwest Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook

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

MIKE-21 Spectral Waves

This professional software package helps engineers better predict the power of wind-waves, providing key input to breakwater design, wave agitation, and dynamic ship mooring modeling by establishing wave conditions adjacent to ports and terminals.

Minnesota Extreme Heat Toolkit

Local governments and public health professionals can use this guide to help them prepare for and respond to extreme heat events. Communities across the nation can look to this resource as an example of how they can prepare and respond to heat waves in their own areas.

Missouri River Basin 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.

NACo County Explorer

This visualization tool provides key county-level information on a wide variety of topics: demographics, the economy, education, healthcare, and public safety.

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