Climate risk planning portal from Argonne National Lab gets new features

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To help U.S. communities better plan for future climate change impacts, Argonne National Laboratory recently launched an updated version of its online Climate Risk and Resilience Portal, which was first launched in 2023.

The new portal allows users to generate reports showing how climate hazards could impact vulnerable populations or infrastructure, such as retirement communities, hospitals and fire stations, said Tom Wall, director of Argonne’s Center for Climate Resilience and Decision Science, on a Feb. 1 webinar. The updates also make it easier for users to create climate hazard maps, charts and other visualizations. 

More new features are coming to the portal in the coming months, including information about inland flooding and coastal flooding from storm surge, higher-resolution local data, and tools that allow for more analysis within the portal. The portal currently covers the contiguous U.S. and Canada, and the Argonne team also plans on adding data for Puerto Rico and the Caribbean this year, Wall said.