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.

Natural resources planning activities are constantly changing to accommodate new challenges, and it is becoming increasingly important that conservation and land management activities intentionally consider a changing and uncertain climate. This Quick Guide to Adaptation Planning for Natural Resources Professionals gives you a starting point to help you design and implement adaptation actions in your work, with a focus on the project level. This guide draws on the five-step Adaptation Workbook process desi

A Quick Guide to Adaptation Planning for Natural Resources Professionals

This Quick Guide outlines the key steps of developing an adaptation project to enable natural resource professionals to begin designing and implementing adaptation actions in their work.

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Adaptation Tool Kit: Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Land Use

This toolkit presents information on 18 different land-use tools (generally used legal devices) that could be used to preemptively respond to threats that sea level rise poses to public and private coastal development and infrastructure.

Adaptation Workbook

Land managers, natural resource professionals, and motivated landowners can use this structured process to consider the effects of climate change on forests, urban forests, and agricultural properties.

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Adapting Stormwater Management for Coastal Floods

Communities can use this website to determine how the flooding of today and tomorrow can affect their stormwater systems, and generate reports about flooding impacts to support planning efforts.

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Adapting Stormwater Management for Coastal Floods

Communities can use this website to determine how the flooding of today and tomorrow can affect their stormwater systems.

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Being Prepared for Climate Change: A Workbook for Developing Risk-Based Adaptation Plans

Organizations that manage environmental resources can use this guide to prepare a broad, risk-based adaptation plan.

Biofuels Atlas

Compare and analyze biomass feedstocks, biofuels infrastructure, and biofuels use in the United States on this interactive map. Users can zoom to a region or state and conduct a range of simple analyses with selected data.

Biopower Atlas

Compare and analyze biomass feedstocks, biopower infrastructure, and environmental impacts in the United States on this interactive map. Zoom to a region or state and conduct a range of simple analyses with selected data.

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Bringing Wetlands to Market: BWM Wetland GHG Model

Coastal managers can use this Excel® spreadsheet file to estimate the potential carbon storage of a wetland region.

Building America Solution Center - Disaster Resistance Tool

Builders, remodelers, restoration contractors, and home occupants can find guidance to make homes more resistant to natural disasters.

Building Resilience

Visit this website from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to learn about building project and community resilience.

Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) Framework

Communities can use this five-step process from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prepare for the health effects of climate change.

CanVis

Help people visualize the impact of potential projects or events with this downloadable photo-editing software. Users can modify "before" images of familiar scenes to show how they might look "after" a specified amount of sea level rise or after a proposed building project is complete.

Cattle Heat Stress Forecast Maps

Cattle producers in the contiguous United States can consult maps to anticipate when heat stress may affect their animals.

Climate Adaptation For DoD Natural Resource Managers

This guide and the accompanying documents and spreadsheets can help Department of Defense installation managers incorporate climate considerations into integrated natural resource management plans.

Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE)

Access adaptation case studies, virtual library resources, a directory of adaptation practitioners, and a database of relevant tools on this comprehensive website. Users can also participate in community forums or contribute resources.

Climate Change Adaptation Resource Center (ARC-X)

Create an integrated package of climate change adaptation information tailored specifically to your geographic location and/or area of interest.

Climate Change Resilience Roadmap

Federal, state, and local entities can follow this roadmap to develop regional climate change and national security action plans. The tool offers guidance for regions to convene multi-jurisdictional working groups and work collaboratively toward tangible outputs.

Climate Change Resource Center

Natural resource planners, land managers, and other decision makers can find usable science as well as approaches to adaptation and mitigation from the U.S. Forest Service to help them address climate change impacts.

Climate Resilience Evaluation & Awareness Tool (CREAT)

Owners and operators of drinking water and wastewater utilities can use this web-based tool to assess potential climate change threats and evaluate adaption options at their sites.

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Climate-Smart Conservation: Putting Adaptation Principles into Practice

Natural resource managers and conservation professionals can use this guide to help them incorporate climate considerations into their work.

Climigration

Resources on this site encourage people to have conversations about managed retreat as one option for dealing with rising sea levels.

CO-Benefits Risk Assessment (COBRA) Health Impacts Screening and Mapping Tool

State and local governments can use this tool to estimate the health and economic benefits of clean energy policies.

Coastal Adaptation Toolkit

Selected resources about coastal areas and watersheds for practitioners and environmental professionals.

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Coastal and Waterfront SmartGrowth

Sustainable coastal development information, tools, and case studies for planners, local government officials, developers, residents, and other stakeholders.

Coastal County Snapshots

Select a coastal county and explore summary snapshots describing its flood exposure, wetland benefits, or economic benefits from ocean jobs. Communities access these reports to benchmark current conditions and identify opportunities for building resilience.

Coastal Resilience Decision Support System

Coastal residents and planners use this suite of GIS-based tools to visualize flood risks from sea level rise and storm surge and identify areas and populations at risk.

Coastal Restoration Toolkit

This web-based toolkit offers a wealth of tools and resources to help coastal residents address flooding, coastal erosion, water quality, invasive species, and wildlife habitat restoration.

COMET-Farm

Farmers and ranchers use this carbon accounting tool to estimate their operation’s greenhouse gas emissions and capacity for carbon sequestration, and to evaluate the impacts of alternative management strategies on their net emissions.

Community Rating System Explorer

This app that helps planners identify areas that are eligible for Open Space Preservation (OSP) credits in FEMA’s Community Rating System (CRS).

Community Resilience Portal

This online portal catalogues a set of resources that local planners can use to help plan and prepare for changing natural hazards when undertaking HUD-funded activities.

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Compendium of Adaptation Approaches

This database of adaptation actions can help natural resource managers move from broad ideas to specific actions appropriate for their geography and climate pressures.

Creating Resilient Water Utilities

Drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater utility professionals can access the resources on this website to find tools, training, and technical assistance to help them increase resilience to extreme weather events.

Creating Resilient Water Utilities - Case Study and Information Exchange Map

Learn how water utilities across the nation are building resilience to water management challenges.

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.

Dialysis Facility Comparison

Users can search a list of all dialysis facilities registered with Medicare to find alternate treatment locations in the event of an extreme weather event.

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