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.

Vdatum

Spatial analysts use this downloadable tool to convert topographic and/or bathymetric data to a common reference system, enabling them to fuse diverse geospatial datasets into single projects.

Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI)

This index is a weekly depiction of vegetation stress across the contiguous United States.

VegScape—Vegetation Condition Explorer

Access daily, weekly, or bi-weekly maps of satellite imagery indicating the health of crops and natural vegetation.

Vermont Tick Tracker

This easy-to-use, map-based tool allows users to report tick bites, identify the tick species, and view where other tick bites have occurred.

Vermont Transportation Resilience Planning Tool (TRPT)

The Vermont Transportation Resilience Planning Tool (TRPT) is a web-based application that identifies bridges, culverts, and road embankments that are vulnerable to damage from floods.

Vibrant Cities Lab

City managers, policymakers, and advocates can use this step-by-step tool to build thriving urban forest programs.

Virtual Beach

This decision-support software package generates statistical models to predict levels of disease-causing pathogens at specific beach sites. Managers can use it to help guide decisions on beach closures for public health reasons.

White rocks line the bank of a stream in Washing County, USA.

Visualizing Ecosystem Land Management Assessments (VELMA) Model

VELMA is a tool designed to model effective decisions for a wide array of environmental issues. It is a spatially explicit ecohydrological watershed model that planners can use to visualize the effects of their decisions.

Vulnerability and Resilience of Fishing Communities: Indicator Map

View the status of 13 indicators of social vulnerability and resilience in more than 3,800 fishing communities in the United States.

USACE photo of Fremont Bridge, Portland, Oregon

Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Framework

State and municipal transportation agencies can use this guide to assess the vulnerabilities of their transportation infrastructure.

Vulnerability Assessment for Hawai'i's Native Forest Birds

Users can peruse this report to understand and prepare for the potential impacts of climate change on Hawai’i’s native forest birds.

Vulnerability Assessment Scoring Tool (VAST)

This Microsoft Excel®-based spreadsheet file guides transportation personnel in conducting a quantitative, indicator-based vulnerability screen of their transportation assets.

Vulnerability Self-Assessment Tool (VSAT)

Drinking water and wastewater utilities of all sizes can use this tool to determine their vulnerability to both man-made and natural hazards and evaluate potential improvements to enhance their security and resiliency.

Vulnerability, Consequences, and Adaptation Planning Scenarios (VCAPS)

This planning process can help local decision makers link outcomes such as sea level rise and increased stormwater runoff to consequences in their community, and then identify strategies for adaptation and hazard management.

Screen capture of the Water Evaluation and Planning System website

Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) System

This user-friendly, downloadable software tool takes an integrated approach to water resources planning, simulating both the natural and engineered components of water systems and allowing planners access to a more comprehensive view of managing water resources.

Water Harvesting Assessment Toolbox

Communities in the southwestern U.S. can use these tools to learn about, and develop an assessment process for, water harvesting to help meet water resource challenges.

Water Resources Dashboard

Water resource managers and urban planners use this dashboard for convenient access to maps and data that help them monitor the potential for extreme precipitation and drought in their regions.

WaterWatch

Access maps, graphs, and tables describing real-time, recent, and past streamflow conditions for the United States, including Alaska, Hawai'i, and Puerto Rico.

Wave Exposure Model

Analysts use this downloadable software with ArcGIS to quantify wave energy and its effects on ecosystem functions.

Infographic from the Extreme Heat Social Media Toolkit

Weather-Ready Nation | Extreme Heat Social Media Toolkit

Share critical information about extreme heat on social media.

Web Soil Survey

Zoom in on a map of the United States and outline an area of interest to access a soil map and descriptions of soils for that location. Access additional information to determine the suitability of the soils for particular uses, or download data for further analysis in desktop tools.