Tribal Climate Resilience Maps

The Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience (TCR) Annual Awards Program provides financial support for federally-recognized Tribal Nations and authorized Tribal organizations through a competitive funding opportunity to build Tribal resilience capacity.

With the TCR Annual Awards Dashboard you can view a map of all annual awards program recipients since 2011 across the US and click on any award to learn more about the project, the Tribe or organization undertaking the project, when the project began, and how much funding the project received.

The TCR Annual Awards Dashboard also shows cumulative data on which funding categories have received the most grant money over time, as well as which Tribes or organizations have received the most award funding. 

You can also use the TCR annual awards dashboard to search and filter projects that have received awards by what years the project received funding, funding category, Tribe, and region. 

The Bureau of Indian Affairs Voluntary Community-Driven Relocation Program provides funding to Tribes severely impacted by climate-related environmental threats to pursue relocation, managed retreat, protect-in-place efforts, and climate adaptation planning.

Funded with $115 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, the program has supported 11 demonstration projects for severely impacted Tribal Nations. Further support was also provided from the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) and the Denali Commission.

The Community-Driven Relocation StoryMap includes descriptions of all 11 demonstration projects. You can learn the story of the Tribal community undertaking each project, the climate impacts they are facing, and their plan to relocate, adapt, and prepare for the future.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJScreen) compiles environmental and socioeconomic geospatial data from public sources into a single tool.

EJScreen supports viewing and layering geospatial data on climate change impacts, such as increased flood risk, wildfire risk, and sea level rise. You can also use EJScreen to combine public data on pollution, socioeconomic indicators, and health disparities to create a complex picture of how environmental injustice affects communities.

On the EPA’s EJScreen web page you can also learn how to use advanced features, review technical documentation, and access the EJScreen API to create custom maps and views.

The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is a report mandated by the Global Change Research Act of 1990 and developed through a collaboration of federal and non-federal experts overseen by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) was released in November 2023. NCA5 Chapter 16 is on Indigenous Peoples and details the effects of climate change on Tribal economies, health, as well as climate resilience efforts.

NCA5 includes an interactive atlas which provides geospatial information for the climate data and projections used in the report. Available maps include average and peak temperature and precipitation across the US, changes in temperature and precipitation over time, and the number of days each year over various temperature and rainfall thresholds. You can also use the atlas to compare and layer data sets and climate projection models.