Resources

Resources

Residents

Blue Acres​

  • DEP Blue Acres helps New Jersey residents and communities identify and avoid risks of flooding through strategic climate resilience planning and the state-led acquisition of flood-prone property.​

NJ Disaster Help ​

  • Resources to help disaster survivors – from help obtaining immediate necessities like food, health, and shelter, to long-term recovery programs that help you replace or rebuild what you lost.​​

NJ Weather Ready​​

  • This page is updated with the latest information during storms and throughout the year for tropical storms, hurricanes, floods, and other weather events that affect our state.​​

FEMA Individual Disaster Assistance Program ​​

  • Resources to help individuals find support and apply for assistance after disasters.​​

New Jersey Office of Emergency Management ​​

  • Provides resources and updates to residents before, during, and after emergencies. ​​

National Flood Insurance Program ​​

  • NFIP offers flood insurance to help reduce the socio-economic impacts of floods.​

Local Governments

NJDEP Grants and Loan Page ​

  • Provides a comprehensive list of the NJDEP’s grants and loans available to residents, businesses, non-profits, and state agencies​

Local Planning Toolkit​

  • This guidance is a resource for individuals who represent, work, or volunteer for a municipal or county government in New Jersey to understand how their community can proactively plan for the changing climate and build resilience into their local governance.​

Stormwater Utility Toolkit​

  • An overview of the process for establishing a stormwater utility (also referred to as SWU).​

NJ ADAPT – a suite of online tools designed to provide data to planners, decision makers, practitioners, and other addressing climate change in NJ. Hosted by the NJ Climate Change Resource Center, NJ ADAPT contains three tools: ​

  1. NJ FloodMapper​
    • an interactive tool that allows users to conduct flood exposure analysis based on the best available science for sea-level rise.​
  2. NJ Forest Adapt​
    • A mapping tool that identifies changes to temperature as well as changes to forest density, forest type, pest and disease over time due to climate change.​
  3. Municipal Snapshots​
    • A snapshot that provides easy access to information about the people, places and assets, such as infrastructure, that at risk from climate change impacts in each municipality.​

New Jersey Extreme Precipitation Projection Tool ​

  • Tool that provides data on precipitation projections for New Jersey including increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events, rainfall depths, and comparisons with NOAA Atlas 14 values.​

Training for Whole-Community Climate Resilience​

  • Trainings to improve the practice of coastal resilience planning by incorporating the needs and perspectives of populations that are especially vulnerable to changing climate conditions.​

NJ Weather Ready​

  • This page is updated with the latest information during storms and throughout the year for tropical storms, hurricanes, floods, and other weather events that affect our state.​

Sea Level Rise in NJ​

  • Provides resources to learn more about and help address sea-level rise in New Jersey including NJDEP recommended guidance.​

Living Shoreline Engineering Guidelines​

  • Guidance for the use of living shorelines as a shoreline stabilization alternative to bulkheads and seawalls.

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FEMA Public Assistance Program​

  • Provides supplemental grants to state, tribal, territorial, and local governments, and certain types of private non-profits so communities can quickly respond to and recover from major disasters or emergencies.​

Healthy Communities Planning ​

  • Provides a snapshot of your municipality’s environmental public health with county and state comparisons to help identify priorities for improvement.

Businesses

Business & Industry Preparedness Planning​

  • Provides resources for business in NJ to prepare and respond to natural and man-made disasters​

NJ Weather Ready​

  • This page is updated with the latest information during storms and throughout the year for tropical storms, hurricanes, floods, and other weather events that affect our state.​

FEMA Small Business Program ​

  •  Program to help small businesses have the maximum practicable opportunity to participate in federal procurements. ​

U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Disaster Assistance ​

  • SBA provides low-interest disaster loans to help businesses and homeowners recover from declared disasters.