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.

Rapid Vulnerability & Adaptation Tool for Climate-Informed Community Planning

This worksheet helps communities compile readily available climate data and local knowledge to assess their climate vulnerability and collaboratively develop adaptation strategies.

Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT)

This free web map gives emergency managers and other community leaders a way to examine the interplay of census data, infrastructure locations, and hazards. Available data layers include real-time weather forecasts, historic disasters, and estimated annualized frequency of hazard risk.

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Resilience Assessment Resources and Projects

Natural resource managers can access a downloadable workbook and a database of ongoing projects to assess resilience in social-ecological systems.

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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.

Resilient NJ: Local Planning for Climate Change Toolkit

Individuals who represent, work, or volunteer for a municipal or county government in New Jersey can use this toolkit to understand how their community can proactively plan for the changing climate and build resilience into their local governance.

Resilient Strategies Guide for Water Utilities

Utilities identify their climate concerns and describe their assets and priorities, and the interactive site helps them select adaptation strategies and funding sources.

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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.

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Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (Risk MAP) Program

This FEMA program helps communities identify, assess, communicate, and mitigate their flood risk through more precise flood mapping products, risk assessment tools, and support for planning and outreach.

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.

RVAgreen 2050 Climate Equity Index

Residents and planners in Richmond, Virginia, can use this tool to explore factors—including social equity—that could make their neighborhood more susceptible to impacts from climate change and other health and natural crises.

San Francisco Climate and Health Profile

Neighborhood organizations, city departments, and direct service providers in San Francisco can use this simple, streamlined tool to access information on climate and health.

Santa Ana Wildfire Threat Index

Southern California mesonets—relatively dense networks of weather observation sensors—provide real-time information about weather conditions to help users understand the threat of wind-promoted wildfires.

Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO)

Alaska Native and coastal communities can use these outlooks to understand forecasts for subsistence hunting and for analysis of current sea ice conditions.

Sea Level Change Curve Calculator

Find estimated rates of sea level change for any location along the U.S. ocean coast. For locations without tide gauges, click the NOAA tide gage closest to the location of interest.

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Sea Level Forecasts

This 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.

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Sea Level Rise Inundation Mapping Tool for Delaware

Zoom in or enter an address to view local maps of Delaware’s shoreline; adjust a slider to see areas likely to be inundated by various sea level rise scenarios.

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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 Rise Viewer

Explore how the shoreline is likely to change with increasing amounts of sea level rise. This tool from NOAA's Office of Coastal Management lets you visualize the potential impacts of coastal flooding so you can prioritize actions for different scenarios.

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Sea The Future

Using a sea level rise visualization tool responsibly requires an understanding of the underlying assumptions, methodologies, and specifications of the tool. Sea the Future helps Californians identify the visualization tools that best meet their needs.

Seedlot Selection Tool (SST)

This browser-based GIS mapping program is designed to help forest managers in western North America match seedlots with planting sites based on climatic information.

Seven Generations—Community-Based Environmental Planning

Environmental staff, community leaders, and community planners in rural Alaska can use this environmental planning process to help local community members understand and recognize climate impacts and build community capacity for resilience.

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Sonoma County Wildfire Fuel Mapper

This web tool aims to help help Sonoma County residents and land managers better understand the landscape, reduce fuels that sustain wildfires, and better protect the community.

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South Atlantic LCC Conservation Planning Atlas

Regional conservation managers in the Southeast United States can view, retrieve, and perform analyses on spatial information as they consider how to meet specific conservation goals.

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Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA) | An IOOS Data Portal

This portal offers centralized access to coastal and ocean data for the Southeast U.S. Users can search for data by category, catalog, or an interactive map viewer.

Southeast Regional Partnership for Planning and Sustainability (SERPPAS)

This partnership aims to facilitate collaborative work among communities and agencies to protect natural resources, optimize health and safety, and promote economic development and military readiness in the Southeast.

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.

Storm Surge Inundation and Hurricane Strike Frequency Map

Check the vulnerability of your neighborhood to flooding from storm surge. The map illustrates current worst-case coastal storm surge or inundation scenarios as well as hurricane strike frequency.

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Storm Water Management Model

Urban planners and landscape designers use this downloadable program to simulate the quality and quantity of rainfall over urban and suburban areas.

Substantial Damage Estimator

State and local officials use this downloadable application to determine damage levels to buildings impacted by flood, wind, wildfire, seismic, and other events.

Surging Seas—Sea Level Rise Analysis by Climate Central

View threats from sea level rise and storm surge for any coastal town or city in the contiguous United States. The site's Risk Finder interface offers additional analyses for selected states.

Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Health Care Facilities Toolkit

This toolkit includes a best practices document, a framework describing affordable measures that can help make health care facilities more resilient, and resources for responding to challenges associated with climate change impacts.

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Sustainable Jersey

This website provides an example of an established program that empowers communities to build a better world for future generations with the tools, training and financial incentives necessary to pursue critical sustainability initiatives at the state-wide level.

System for Assessing Vulnerability of Species (SAVS)

Wildlife managers can use this tool to rank species vulnerability to future climate change.

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Texas Temperature Trends Dashboard

Explore temperature data and trends observed at 75 stations in Texas from 1970-2019.

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