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.

States At Risk

Explore how each state is affected by extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and coastal and inland flooding.

Stew-MAP: Stewardship Mapping & Assessment Project

This framework enables teams to compile information about environmental stewardship efforts across a metropolitan area. A range of end-users can benefit by using the populated database and associated map to connect interested groups with local projects.

Storm Events Database

Access National Weather Service storm data and unusual weather phenomenon reports from 1950 to the present.

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.

Strawberry Advisory System

Florida strawberry growers can use this Web-based decision support tool for timing fungicide applications.

Stream Temperature Data Collection Standards and Protocol for Alaska

These standards help generate useful data for regional-scale analyses of aquatic systems and fisheries resources.

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.

SURGEDAT

Visit the world's storm surge data center, providing information on over 700 global tropical surge events and more than 8,000 high water marks from surges along the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coasts.

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.

Sustainable Facilities Tool

Access guidance and tools that can simplify the challenge of "greening" our buildings and reducing operating costs. Get answers to questions about efficiency, indoor quality, and conservation.

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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.

Synthesis of Adaptation Options for Coastal Areas

Coastal managers can consult this guide to help them understand adaptation options that are relevant to estuarine management goals.

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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Tackling Barriers to Green Infrastructure: An Audit of Municipal Codes and Ordinances

This workbook helps communities review, revise, and prioritize local codes and ordinances to promote and advance green infrastructure implementation.

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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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Threat Assessments on California Rangelands

Ranchers, land managers, conservation organizations, planners, and other decision makers can explore six different scenarios to determine how California rangelands and their ecosystem services might be maintained in light of future threats.

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Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX)

This program matches volunteer scientists with community leaders across the globe to advance local projects related to natural hazards, natural resources, and climate change.

Tick Bite Data Tracker

Visualizations display national data on emergency department visits for tick bites by region, week/month, and age/sex.

Tool for Quantitative Assessment of Temperature Sensitivity under Future Climates and Legacy Impacts (QUAL2kw)

This modeling framework simulating river and stream water quality was developed by the EPA as a pilot for climate change analysis.

Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast Viewer

This experimental product shows model-predicted water water levels along the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next 6 days.

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Tourism Resilience Index

This self-assessment tool helps business owners or managers predict if individual tourism businesses—or even a regional tourism industry—are prepared to maintain operations during and after disasters.

Transportation Climate Change Sensitivity Matrix

Transportation departments can use this Microsoft Excel®-based file with Visual Basic macros to generate reports on the sensitivity of six types of transportation assets to 11 potential climate impacts.

Tree Equity Score

Trees are critical urban infrastructure that are essential to public health and well-being. Tree Equity Score was created to help address damaging environmental inequities by prioritizing human-centered investment in areas with the greatest need.

Tree Species Risks

Use this website to access resources on forest vulnerability in the Northeast, Great Lakes, and Midwest.

TreeFlow: Streamflow Reconstructions from Tree Rings

This site provides easy access to tree-ring reconstructions of streamflow and temperature, and information on how the data were developed and how they can be used.

Treepedia

Scientists and city dwellers can use this interactive website to evaluate and compare urban tree coverage in cities across the globe.

Tribal Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit

This collection of templates and other resources assists tribes in their climate change adaptation planning process.

Tribal Climate Change Guide

Tribal, First Nation, and Alaska Native communities—along with federal, academic, non-profit, and other partners—use this web-based clearinghouse to access a broad range of climate resources.

Tribal Energy Program

Tribal communities can browse potential financial opportunities, access technical assistance, and find education and training programs related to the use of renewable energy and energy-efficiency technologies.

Tribal Resilience Action Database

This database presents a culturally sensitive, easily accessible, and useful database of climate adaptation strategies and community examples already published by Tribes across the nation.

Tribal Resilience Resource Guide

Tribal communities can use this guide as a "one-stop-shop" for locating integrated, government-wide resources from the federal government relating to resilience.

U.S. Agricultural Commodities in Drought

This website provides information about the percentage of various U.S. agricultural commodities being affected by drought.

U.S. Census 2022 Community Resilience Estimates

This dashboard helps to identify population concentrations likely to be more impacted by and have greater difficulties overcoming disasters.

U.S. Climate Extremes Index

Look for trends in how the incidence of various climate extremes (as defined by the Climate Extremes Index) has changed over time in the United States or one of its regions.

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