Climate Resilience Resources for Cultural Heritage Toolkit

Even before Zillow removed ClimateCheck and FirstStreet risk scores from its site, this award winning tool was one of the best one-stop resource for climate hazard information for the US and Territories. 

Here is the tool. Here is the data behind the tool.

Through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Held in Trust program, Ben Lewis provided consulting in system design, system architecture, and interface design to the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation. The result is the "Climate Resilience Resources for Cultural Heritage Toolkit" (CRR) available here https://www.resilience.culturalheritage.org/.   

NEH funded the hazard assessment and planning tool to provide any organization with a way to start identifying the important risks to a given place, and to support resiliency planning.

Bringing together best available government and commercial data and models, (NOAA, FEMA, ClimateCheck, and others), the system provides the public with local hazard risk estimates based on authoritiative data, for any part of the United States and Territories.  

Though the system makes use of many large datasets, the system requires little maintenance and has low hosting costs. This is made possible through an innovative use of Esri Hub, which is free for non-profits, the ArcGIS Platform API, and just-in-time application functionality based on the user's map navigation, provided by a lamda function against hazard data stored in AWS.