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: Learn about the Firewise USA program and how to get your community involved. Access resources on preparing homes for wildfires and use an interactive map to see where Firewise USA sites are located in North Carolina and across the country.
Hosted by: National Fire Protection Association
Released: Unknown
Use this resource to: Find your official flood map. The FEMA Flood Map Service Center is the official public source for flood hazard information produced in support of the National Flood Insurance Program.
Hosted by: FEMA
Released: Unknown
Use this resource to: Access resources to help you plan for community growth while minimizing your impact on wildlife and natural resources. The site contains green development fact sheets, training workshops, funding resources and conservation strategies. Protecting natural spaces can help species survive despite climate change impacts on habitats and ecosystems.
Hosted by: NC Wildlife Resources Commission
Released: Unknown
Use this resource to: See a list of many states’ green infrastructure design manuals, links to modeling tools, descriptions of solutions to green infrastructure design challenges and a list of state-specific manuals on green infrastructure for homeowners.
Hosted by: EPA
Released: 2015
Use this resource to: Compare green infrastructure (GI) best practices across cities and draw lessons from different approaches. See descriptions of GI applications and review information on how to get started, integrating GI into existing processes, how to pay for GI and how to incorporate equity principles into GI planning and implementation.
Hosted by: Georgetown Climate Center
Released: 2013
Use this resource to: Access guidance on how to select, design and implement site design strategies and green infrastructure practices for roads, alleys and parking lots. The handbook includes a chapter on green street stormwater design practices. The resource was written for state and local transportation agencies, municipal officials, designers and other stakeholders.
Hosted by: EPA
Released: 2021
Use this resource to: Follow the steps in this document to complete a community-scale climate vulnerability assessment.
Hosted by: National Resources Defense Council
Released: 2020
Use this resource to: See maps and exposure data for coastal flooding hazards based on storm and sea level rise scenarios, for groundwater depths based on sea level rise scenarios and for shoreline change hazards (e.g., erosion) based on sea level rise, storm, and coastal management scenarios. Each map allows you to select North Carolina.
Hosted by: US Geological Survey
Released: 2020
Use this resource to: Access helpful information for prospective applicants and sub applicants on the application and grant processes for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, the Flood Mitigation Assistance program and the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Post Fire.
Hosted by: FEMA
Released: 2024
Use this resource to: Find webinars, project reports, a blog and other community planning resources to assist in hazard mitigation and climate resilience planning. The American Planning Association, with help from FEMA and the Association of Floodplain Managers, hosts this website. Some resources are only free to APA members.
Hosted by: American Planning Association
Released: Unknown
Use this resource to: Adapt and build resilience to extreme heat. Obtain guidance and resources to complete the template heat action plan.
Hosted by: NC Office of Recovery and Resiliency; State Climate Office of North Carolina
Released: 2024
Use this resource to: Predict the daily number of emergency department visits for heat-related illness by county in North Carolina. Intended users include public health officials and emergency management personnel across the state.
Hosted by: Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments; Southeast Regional Climate Center
Released: 2017
Use this resource to: Learn how to build, implement and monitor a heat response plan. The document includes suggested actions, recommendations for monitoring and evaluating plan success, instructions on how to identify vulnerable populations and more.
Hosted by: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Released: 2020
Use this resource to: Find resources to help prevent employees from experiencing health impacts from extreme heat. The site contains presentations, training, outreach materials in English and Spanish, links to OSHA resources and more.
Hosted by: NC Department of Labor
Released: Unknown
Use this resource to: Access nationally submitted Emergency Medical Services (EMS) data to track EMS responses, by county, to people experiencing heat-related emergencies in the pre-hospital setting. See average EMS time to patient, rate of heat-related EMS activations per 100,000 people, the number of heat-related deaths among EMS activations and more.
Hosted by: National Emergency Medical Services Information System
Released: 2023