Climate Risk Assessment Resources

Technical assistance providers — including prospective applicants and recipients — can use the resources on this page to consider current and future climate risks to a project. These resources can help with crafting funding applications, performing project planning and design and implementing projects.

EPA developed a curated table of federal tools that can help applicants and recipients evaluate climate risks and hazards, develop climate-smart projects and consider the impacts of climate change throughout project implementation. 

On this page:

• Climate Risk Assessment Resources Table
• Tool Categories
• Climate Justice Highlight
• Disclaimer

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Climate Risk Assessment Resources Table

1. Identify and select the tool categories you are interested in. See the list below or click on any of the tool category names in the key to see definitions.
2. If you are searching for Climate Hazard Screening tools only, you can filter for the hazards relevant to your project. If you are interested in all climate hazards, do not select any hazards from the filter list.  
3. For all tool categories, you can choose to filter for tools that include climate projections (as opposed to only historical data).
4. To see all the tools in this table, click the show all button. 

Hazard(s) Mapped

Drought

Extreme Precipitation

Flooding, Coastal

Flooding, Inland

Heat

Sea Level Rise

Strong Winds

Wildfire

Wildfire-Conducive Weather

Tool Category

Understanding Impacts

Climate Hazard Screening

Climate Risk Assessment

Identifying Solutions

Environmental Justice Mapping

Tribal Area Mapping

Climate Projections

Yes

No

 

Climate Risk Assessment Resources Table 

Tool	Hazard(s) Mapped	Tool Category	Climate Projections
Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation (CMRA) User Guide	Coastal Flooding, Drought, Extreme Precipitation, Heat, Wildfire-Conducive Weather	Climate Hazard Screening, EJ Mapping, Tribal Area Mapping	Yes
NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer	Sea Level Rise	Climate Hazard Screening	Yes
FEMA National Risk Index User Guide	Coastal Flooding, Drought, Heat, Inland Flooding, Strong Winds, Wildfire	Climate Hazard Screening	No
Climate Resilience Evaluation & Assessment Tool (CREAT) Maps	Extreme Precipitation, Heat, Sea Level Rise	Climate Hazard Screening	Yes
Climate Resilience Evaluation & Assessment Tool (CREAT) User Guide	N/A	Climate Risk Assessment	Yes
National Climate Assessment	N/A	Identifying Solutions, Understanding Impacts	Yes
Adaptation Resource Center (ARC-X)	N/A	Identifying Solutions, Understanding Impacts	No
Interagency Sea Level Rise Scenario Tool	Sea Level Rise	Climate Hazard Screening	Yes
FEMA Flood Maps User Guide	Inland Flooding	Climate Hazard Screening	Yes
Creating Resilient Water Utilities Resilient Strategies Guide	N/A	Identifying Solutions	No
National Climate Assessment Atlas	Drought, Extreme Precipitation, Heat	Climate Hazard Screening	Yes
EJScreen User Guide	Coastal Flooding, Inland Flooding, Sea Level Rise, Wildfire	EJ Mapping	No
CEJST (Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool) User Guide	N/A	EJ Mapping, Tribal Area Mapping	No
Climate Resilience Toolkit - Case Studies	N/A	Identifying Solutions	No
Climate Resilience Toolkit - Steps to Resilience User Guide	N/A	Climate Risk Assessment	No
Wildfire Risk to Communities	Wildfire	Climate Hazard Screening, Identifying Solutions, Understanding Impacts	No
Drought.gov	Drought	Climate Hazard Screening, Tribal Area Mapping, Understanding Impacts	No
Heat.gov	Drought	Identifying Solutions, Understanding Impacts	No
ClimRR (Climate Risk and Resilience Portal) User Guide	Extreme Precipitation, Heat, Strong Winds, Wildfire-Conducive Weather	Climate Hazard Screening	Yes
Federal Flood Standard Support Tool User Guide	Coastal Flooding, Inland Flooding	Climate Hazard Screening	Yes
National Sea Level Explorer	Sea Level Rise	Climate Hazard Screening	Yes

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Tool Categories

Technical assistance providers can use this table to help applicants and recipients explore and identify the tools can support their project goals. Learn more about how the tools in this table are organized into specific categories below.

• Understanding Impacts – These tools provide general awareness of climate trends, stressors and impacts from hazards, as well as risk and/or vulnerability assessments. For example, they may provide text summarizing climate impacts on different sectors, or text and images summarizing climate trends in a region (e.g., National Climate Assessments, ARC-X).
• Climate Hazard Screening – These tools allow users to screen for climate change hazards using indices or indicators by visualizing current data and future projections for the following climate stressors at a minimum: wildfire, flooding, extreme heat, sea level rise, extreme precipitation. They can generally help users answer questions about regional or location specific trends and often provide output in the form of mapped data (e.g., National Climate Assessment Atlas, Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation).
• Climate Risk Assessment – These tools walk users through a step-by-step process for performing a general or full climate vulnerability or climate risk assessment (e.g., Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool, Assessing Your Project’s Climate Risk (pdf) (634.29 KB) .
• Identifying Solutions – These tools help users identify what type of project to select, how to design their project for a specific goal and what types of benefits may occur from implementing that project. They often provide output in the form of informational text or case studies (e.g., ARC-X, Climate Resilience Toolkit Case Studies).
• Environmental Justice Mapping – These tools provide mapped environmental and demographic indicators. They help answer questions about regions facing environmental and/or climate justice issues (e.g., EJScreen, CEJST).
• Tribal Mapping – These tools include the capability to view Tribal lands. For example, Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation is a Climate Hazard Screening tool that enables users to view mapped climate data by census tract, county, or Tribal land area.

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DISCLAIMER: This table of tools is not intended to be comprehensive. Applicants and recipients are not required to use these tools to develop their applications, workplans, progress reports or any other element of their application or recipient reporting requirements unless they are directed to do so by a specific funding program. These tools are provided by EPA as suggested resources for the public and are not binding documents nor intended to prescribe when and how the Agency should undertake specific actions. This list is not intended to provide methodologies for how to assess the implications of climate change. The use of these tools or information gleaned from the use of these tools as part of an applicant's proposal does not bind EPA to select recipients for funding.