Find interactive websites, reports, mapping and other tools to help you achieve your resilience goals. To narrow down the list, use the check boxes and then scroll down to click the "Apply" button located below the list of options.
Use this resource to: The Rainfall, Intensity, Duration and Return for Observations and Projections (RaInDROP) Tool lets users explore updated precipitation frequency information to understand how changes in intensity, frequency or duration of precipitation will affect local flooding conditions.
Hosted by: North Carolina State Resilience Office
Released: 2025
Use this resource to: Learn how to design more fundable projects by pulling specific policy levers, seeking key partnerships, using innovative accounting practices and redesigning internal processes. This tool covers 10 characteristics of ready-to-fund resilience projects. The resource is designed for small- and-mid-sized local governments working on resilience.
Hosted by: American Society of Adaptation Professionals
Released: 2022
Use this resource to: Use this guidebook alongside the Ready-to-Fund Resilience Toolkit. The resource provides background information on funding and finance, recommendations for centering equity in resilience funding, instructions for co-developing projects with residents and reviews the 10 characters of ready-to-fund resilience projects in detail.
Hosted by: NOAA
Released: 2022
Use this resource to: Access preparedness materials and social media kits that empower residents and businesses to prepare for, respond to and mitigate emergencies and disasters. Materials cover a wide array of hazards including extreme heat, drought, flooding, wildfires, winter storms and more. Some materials are also available in other languages.
Hosted by: FEMA
Released: 2003
Use this resource to: Help residents plan, prepare and stay informed about hazards. The site provides a list of current evacuation orders and routes, power outages, open emergency shelters, information for residents and businesses about how to register for disaster assistance and more.
Hosted by: NC Emergency Management
Released: Unknown
Use this resource to: Read about what defines riverine floodplains, why they’re important to healthy rivers and how they can be restored. This report aims to aid restoration practitioners, floodplain managers, river conservationists and others interested in laying a foundation for successful floodplain restoration efforts in their community.
Hosted by: American Rivers
Released: 2016
Use this resource to: Understand the basics of flooding and flood risks. Users can also view strategies and access resources that local, tribal, regional and state government officials can use to explain flood mitigation to residents and understand what actions your community can take to reduce its own risk of flooding and flood damage.
Hosted by: Association of State Floodplain Managers
Released: 2022
Use this resource to: Access over 100 preloaded GIS layers from peer-reviewed research, the most current census demographic data, infrastructure data and data on weather, hazards and risk. See maps of mobile home parks, nursing homes and more. RAPT also includes easy to use analysis tools, the ability to add in data from other sources and print and download functions.
Hosted by: FEMA
Released: Unknown
Use this resource to: Access guidance on the development of resilience hubs, which are partnership-based, community-serving facilities that aid and educate residents and coordinate resource distribution.
Hosted by: Urban Sustainability Directors Network
Released: Unknown
Use this resource to: Access wildfire resistant resources developed for North Carolina. Resources include guidance and fact sheets to help community members improve the fire resistance of their homes, information on the state’s Fuels Removal Program and a list of organizations that support wildfire resistance in North Carolina.
Hosted by: NC Forest Service; NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Released: Unknown
Use this resource to: Learn about recommended dune grasses, planting schedules and fertilization to restore coastal dunes.
Hosted by: NC State Extension
Released: Unknown
Use this resource to: Review recommendations to integrate green infrastructure into stormwater management and transportation projects, focusing specifically on roads and highways. In addition to featuring two case studies, the report summarizes transportation and capital improvement planning and provides recommendations to fund green infrastructure on roads and highways.
Hosted by: American Rivers
Released: 2015
Use this resource to: See potential overtopping depths and flood effects at each primary road river crossing, and more. The map is behind a login, but it’s free to create an account.
Hosted by: NC Department of Transportation
Released: 2021
Use this resource to: Want to support communities that need help? Use this map to identify communities with limited capacity. The index incorporates metrics on local government staffing, community education and engagement and socioeconomic trends. Results are available for counties, county subdivisions, communities and tribal areas.
Hosted by: Headwaters Economics; US Department of Commerce
Released: 2022
Use this resource to: View an expandable chart to compare the functions and methods of publicly available sea level rise and coastal flood web tools.
Hosted by: Climate Central
Released: Unknown