U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Groups interested in forming local or regional adaptation networks can build on this framework. Developed in California, the framework can be used elsewhere to help groups learn of successful strategies and adapt them for their own use.

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.

These tools give transportation agencies a way to assess transportation resilience return on investment (ROI) for specific transportation assets over a range of potential future conditions and hazard scenarios. The results can be useful when considering existing project prioritization processes. The tool suite utilizes established Robust Decision-Making concepts developed to build on current Transportation Demand Management (TDM) and address deeply uncertain future scenarios.

This website offers strategies and tools for measuring adaptation success.

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

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

Users in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo region of New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico can consult these monthly impact and outlook reports to get information on past and forecasted regional temperature, precipitation, ENSO, and fire conditions.

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.

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.

Residents and planners in coastal areas can refer to this primer in considering options for adapting to sea level rise.

Responders can access mental health resources—including tip sheets and maps of area behavioral health service providers—from their mobile device before, during, and after an extreme weather event. SAMHSA stands for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

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.

Crop producers can use this interactive graphic to perform scenario planning for building climate resilience under specific climate scenarios.

Access scenario models, public service announcements, technical reports, and other resources on topics such as risk perception and communication, winter storm/flooding, wildfire, and tsunami.

This open-source downloadable model uses digital elevation data and other information to simulate potential impacts of long-term sea level rise on wetlands and shorelines.

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.

View visualizations of projected sea level rise in the Hawaiian Islands.