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.

Great Lakes Water Level Dashboard

Businesses and residents in the Great Lakes region can use this dashboard to visualize dynamic water levels and seasonal and long-term forecasts.

Green-Gray Analysis (GGA)

This methodology facilitates objective comparison of the costs and benefits of water management options that utilize green (natural) and gray (conventional) infrastructure.

Groundwater Watch

Water managers can use these webpages to obtain basic statistics about water-level data from around 850,000 wells in the United States.

St. Croix Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives

Tribes, agencies, and organizations can use this guide as a framework to increase understanding of issues relating to access and protection of traditional knowledges in climate initiatives.

Gulf Coast Prairie LCC Conservation Planning Atlas

Regional conservation managers in the Gulf Coast Prairie region can view, retrieve, and perform analyses on spatial information as they consider how to meet specific conservation goals.

Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks LCC Conservation Planning Atlas

Regional conservation managers in the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks can view, retrieve, and perform analyses on spatial information as they consider how to meet specific conservation goals.

Habitat Priority Planner

This ArcGIS extension for Spatial Analyst steps users through subjective habitat analyses to help them make conservation, restoration, and planning decisions.

Hawai'i Climate Adaptation Portal

This website offers information on climate science and adaptation in Hawai'i. Users can also monitor the work of the state's Interagency Climate Adaptation Committee.

Hawai'i Drought Monitor

Access comprehensive information on drought in Hawai'i to prepare for or deal with drought.

Hazards Mapper and HazPop Mobile App

This online mapping application—along with an accompanying mobile app—was designed for those needing a quick assessment of the potential dangers posed by a major hazardous event or developing emergency.

Hazus-MH

Planners and emergency managers use this downloadable software package to access FEMA models that estimate potential losses from earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes and evaluate costs and benefits of mitigation options.

Heat Illness Prevention Training Guide

This guide from OSHA provides a lesson plan for employers to carry out heat safety training for workers.

Heat Safety Tips

Communities and individuals can visit this website from the National Weather Service to learn about the health dangers of heat, prepare for excessive heat events, and find out what to do during an excessive heat wave.

The OSHA Heat Illness webpage displayed on an iPhone

Heat Safety Tool

When you're working in the heat, safety comes first. With this OSHA Heat Safety Tool, you have vital safety information available whenever and wherever you need it—right on your mobile phone.

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Heat Stress Toolkit

Employers and workers can visit this website to find resources and educational materials relating to occupational heat stress.

Historical Hurricane Tracks

Explore locations and severity of tropical cyclones recorded around the world since 1842.

Historical Sea Ice Atlas

View maps of historical sea ice extent and concentration in the oceans surrounding Alaska from the mid-1800s through today.

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Hudson River Flood Impact Decision Support System

This online mapping tool was designed to help inform municipal planning decisions in New York's Hudson River Valley. It is a valuable resource for public officials, resource managers, and others looking to assess risk and identify areas suitable for flood mitigation efforts.

HURREVAC

Local emergency managers use this storm tracking and decision support tool to help them make prudent decisions regarding the timing and extent of evacuations.

Hurricane-Induced Coastal Erosion Hazards

Access map layers showing predictions of how sandy beaches along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coastlines will respond to the direct landfall of category 1–5 hurricanes.

HydroGIS Viewer

Registered users can explore selected map layers from the National Hydropower Asset Assessment Program.

Imiq Data Portal

Access hydrology and climate data gathered across and around Alaska over time. A map interface shows where, what, and when data have been obtained. Submit a custom data query and the portal will aggregate and export data records from multiple sources in a common format.

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Indigenous Health Indicators Tool

Native communities can use this tool—which incorporates connections to ecosystem health and social/cultural beliefs—to better evaluate and manage public environmental health risks and impacts.

Integrated Climate and Land Use Scenarios (ICLUS) Tools and Datasets

ArcGIS users can download these tools and datasets—used by climate change modelers to develop projections—to generate scenarios of housing density changes and calculate impervious surface cover.

Integrated Rapid Visual Screening for Buildings

This downloadable software package from the Department of Homeland Security helps users compile a preliminary assessment of the relative risk and resilience of 15 types of buildings to 20 hazardous events, including natural hazards such as floods and wind.