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.

Coastal Change Hazards Portal

Policy makers, emergency managers, and citizens access information on hazards associated with severe storms, shoreline erosion, and sea level rise. This browser-based “mashup” provides access to historical data, publications, satellite imagery, maps, and more.

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 Flood Exposure Mapper

Explore local maps to stimulate discussions about the people, places, and natural resources exposed to coastal flooding. Create a collection of maps showing risk from various hazards.

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Coastal Flood Impacts for the City of Boston

Visualize flood impacts while planning and preparing for—and responding to—current and future coastal storms in Boston, Massachusetts.

Coastal Resilience

Coastal planning officials 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 Resilience Index

Communities can complete this questionnaire to assess their level of preparedness for extreme events. The exercise helps communities discuss and discover their climate-related vulnerabilities.

Coastal Resilience Resource List

Natural resource managers and interested stakeholders can use this comprehensive list to learn about decision support tools with coastal applications, and about coastal resilience efforts along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and across the Caribbean region.

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 Assessment Reporting Tool (CART)

This online tool generates a snapshot of U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) investment at the community level.

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Community Health Resilience Guide and Toolset

Communities can use this site to maintain or improve their health resilience during steady-state conditions. It can also help them enhance preparedness for man-made or environmental disasters.

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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Community-Based Water Resiliency (CBWR) Tool

Communities can use this downloadable application to prepare for a water service interruption before an emergency occurs.

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Conservation Blueprint 2.0

Planners and resource managers in the South Atlantic region can use this map-based tool to determine shared conservation objectives.

Coral Reef Watch—Satellite Monitoring Decision Support System

Marine managers can use this NOAA site to prepare for and respond to environmental stress on coral reef ecosystems, especially stress caused by climate variability and change.

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Corn Split Nitrogen Decision Support Tool

Farmers and farm advisors can access this web-based tool to determine best/worst/average scenarios for successfully completing nitrogen application for corn production.

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Crop Decision Dashboard

This suite of decision support tools provides weather, climate, drought, and cropping data for agricultural advisors, producers, and decision makers in the nation's Corn Belt.

CropScape

View the USDA Cropland Data Layer to check the type of crop grown in each field across the contiguous U.S. from 1997 to the present. View a sequence of regional views to see how the distribution of specific crops has shifted over time.

Cryosphere Now

Access an array of graphic products that show the current or recent state of Earth's ice.

Data Access Viewer (DAV)

Spatial analysts use this map-based search to find coastal lidar, imagery, land cover, and benthic datasets. The interface displays technical specifications for each dataset, and offers lidar output products for download, including points, rasters, and contours in several projections and datum.

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.

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Delaware Community Flood Map Visualizations

Access visualizations of 100-year floods simulated for ten communities in Delaware. Learn what the phrase "100-year flood" really means.

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Delaware Homeowners Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards

Download this Handbook for a handy guide that covers everything from common myths about natural hazards to protecting your property with insurance, as well as adapting to the impacts of climate change.

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.

Digital Shoreline Analysis System

Given two or more historical positions of a shoreline or other feature on a map, this ArcGIS extension will compute rates of change.

Disaster Behavioral Health Information Series

Links to resources and organizations to help people plan for, and cope with, psychological consequences of extreme weather events.

Disease Maps

View maps displaying seasonal tracking of seven vector-borne diseases—including West Nile virus, several types of encephalitis, and Dengue Fever—in the United States. Each map provides links to background, historical, and other information for each disease.