Climate Resilience
FEMA GIS supports the emergency management community with world-class geospatial information, services, and technologies to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate against all hazards.
Current Mitigation Plan Status
Hazard Mitigation
Hazard mitigation planning reduces loss of life and property by minimizing the impact of disasters. It begins with state, tribal and local governments identifying natural disaster risks and vulnerabilities that are common in their area. After identifying these risks, they develop long-term strategies for protecting people and property from similar events. Mitigation plans are key to breaking the cycle of disaster damage and reconstruction.
Communities with an approved hazard mitigation plan are positioned to build their resilience. The mitigation plan encourages whole community involvement, assessing risk, and using a wide range of resources to develop mitigation strategies that protect people, economies and the environment.
- Having an approved mitigation plan is a prerequisite for certain kinds of non-emergency disaster grants, like the Flood Mitigation Assistance and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities programs.
- Looking for help creating or updating your plan? FEMA provides resources on the Mitigation Planning pages, including best practices and guides on how you can expand your efforts.
Use the above application to determine whether your community has a plan.
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Climate Mapping for Resilience and AdaptationThe Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation (CMRA) Portal aggregates currently available federal datasets to create a climate risk information tool and includes grant finance opportunities. It offers a community-focused, user-friendly model that provides high level trend information for state, local, tribal, and territorial communities. View real-time maps showing where climate-related hazards are occurring today. |
Climate Risk and Resilience PortalThe Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR) is a new developing climate science modeling tool that empowers individuals, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, and organizations to examime simulated future conditions at mid- and end-of-century for a range of climate perils. The ClimRR Data Explorer allows users to view over 100 different climate visualizations in an interactive map and the ClimRR Report Generator provides users with a snapshot of climate projections at a chosen point on a map. Additional hazards will be added over the next year. |
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Digital Coast HomeThis NOAA-sponsored website is focused on helping communities address coastal issues and has become one of the most-used resources in the coastal management community. The dynamic Digital Coast Partnership, whose members represent the website's primary user groups, keeps the effort focused on customer needs. |
Coastal Hazards SystemThe Coastal Hazards System (CHS) is a coastal storm hazards data storage and mining system. Developed by the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, CHS components include this web site, a long-term raw data archive, distributed data repository, metadata database, and a web application that enables easy access to comprehensive and standardized coastal data and statistics. |
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Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources ProgramCMHRP's science strategy Explore Find and download data Get Data Year Published: 2020 Pulse sediment event does not impact the metabolism of a mixed coral reef community Sedimentation can bury corals, cause physical abrasion, and alter both spectral intensity and quality; however, few studies have quantified the effects of sedimentation on coral reef metabolism in the context of episodic sedimentation events. |
Oceans and Coasts | U.S. EPAThe EPA protects and restores ocean and coastal ecosystems by promoting watershed-based management, preventing aquatic pollution, managing ocean dumping sites, assessing coastal conditions, establishing effective partnerships and facilitating community-led science-based efforts. These programs help to ensure clean and safe waters that sustain human health, the environment and the economy. |
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Building Resilience in Coastal CommunitiesThis section offers examples and/or additional information on each of the Steps to Resilience, in the context of coastal flood risk. Coastal areas face the challenge of increasing population (putting more people and more assets in harm's way) compounded by an increased potential for flooding. The stakes are high. |
Coastal ResilienceCoastal Resilience is a program led by The Nature Conservancy to examine nature's role in reducing coastal flood risk. The program consists of an approach, a web mapping tool, and a network of practitioners around the world supporting hazard mitigation and climate adaptation planning. |
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A User Guide to Climate Change PortalsThis guide is designed to help people and communities effectively acquire and interpret climate change information that is appropriate for their locality. Whether you’re a city or county staffer, other professional, or a concerned resident, this guide will help you find climate information that’s appropriate and useful to you. We focus on the U.S. Mountain West, but much of the information in this guide is transferable to other regions. |
Join the Community
During disaster incidents we hold coordination calls with federal, state, and local geospatial personnel. View the Incident Call page to learn more and for information on how to participate.
Visit our Community page to learn more about how to access and share geospatial resources with FEMA.
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