Climate Resilience Plans in Minutes, Not Months
RIA delivers a complete, fundable climate resilience plan for your community in 15 minutes.
- No Consultants Needed
- No GIS Expertise Needed
- No Endless Meetings
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10 years · 300+ clients · 200+ communities · EPA Prime Contractor
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From Sign-Up to Action Plan in 15 Minutes
Enter your city or ZIP code
RIA auto-populates your hazard data from FEMA, NOAA, USGS, and CDC SVI.
Read your hazard risk profile
Plain-language summaries for flood, heat, wildfire, drought, air quality, and vulnerability.
Choose your tailored action plan
1,000+ curated actions selected for your departments, budget range, and timeline.
Download, share, and build your funding ready project narrative
Grant-ready project descriptions.
Walkthrough
See how RIA turns local climate risk into practical, fundable action plans in minutes.
This short walkthrough shows how cities and counties can assess hazards, identify tailored resilience actions, prioritize projects, and build funding-ready project narratives.
Fastest, Lowest Cost Solution for Resilience Activation
In minutes, RIA gives you everything you need to move from planning to action, all in one place.
Interactive Hazard Maps
Your community's complete hazard profile drawn from the same federal datasets FEMA reviewers use: NFHL, NOAA HeatRisk, USGS, and CDC SVI.
- 6 hazards covered
- Social vulnerability included
- Plain-language summaries
Tailored Resilience Plans
Actions automatically matched to your risk profile, departments, budget range, and timeline. Includes costs, co-benefits, and responsible teams.
- 1,000+ curated actions
- Budget-matched
- Department assignments
Progress Dashboard
Track what's in progress, what's completed, and what needs attention next. Export to PDF for council briefings or share with partners.
- Implementation tracking
- Council-ready PDF exports
- Stakeholder sharing
GovTech-powered Assistance
Generate grant-ready materials, governance plans, and stakeholder mapping strategies in minutes.
- Community engagement
- Funding pathways
- Responsive support
Built for the Reality of Local Government
You're managing multiple mandates with a small team and a tight budget. Climate risks aren't waiting. Neither should your solutions. RIA was built specifically for communities like yours.
One Workflow. Every Mandate Covered.
Hazard mitigation updates, heat action plans, resilience strategies, grant applications: RIA unifies every requirement into a single, guided process.
From Strategy to Shovel-Ready.
The gap between "we have a plan" and "we have a project" is where most communities get stuck. RIA closes that gap automatically.
Be the City That's Ready When the Call Comes.
When a disaster is declared, communities with predefined risk assessments and resilience projects underway suffer fewer losses and capture recovery funds first.
Data Your Council Can Act On.
RIA converts verified federal hazard data into plain-language risk summaries and prioritized action lists. No GIS expertise required.
All Climate Hazards, One Platform
RIA integrates multiple risk dimensions to surface compound risks that siloed approaches often miss. RIA analyses all six dimensions simultaneously, creating simple maps for policy makers and communities.
Old Way vs. The RIA Way
See how RIA transforms the climate resilience planning process
Built for Communities and the Organizations That Support Them
Whether you are developing your first resilience plan or coordinating action across multiple communities, RIA helps turn climate risk into practical, fundable action.
Local Government Teams
For city managers, planners, emergency managers and resilience staff who need an actionable plan without a large consulting budget or specialist technical team.
Explore RIA PlansCounties, States and Regional Organizations
For organizations coordinating resilience across departments, jurisdictions or multiple participating communities.
Explore Custom SolutionsNetworks and Delivery Partners
For nonprofits, associations, engineering firms, planning firms and other partners helping local governments assess risks and implement resilience projects.
Discuss a PartnershipSimple, Transparent Pricing
Choose the level of support your community needs. Every plan includes RIA’s climate risk assessment, tailored resilience actions, and practical tools to help turn priorities into fundable projects.
Annual Subscription
One predictable annual payment aligned with government budget cycles.
One Year at a Time
Subscribe for one year and renew when RIA continues to meet your needs.
Purchase Order Friendly
RIA accepts government purchase orders and other approved payment methods.
Designed for Simple Procurement
Standard plans are designed to fit within common municipal small-purchase processes. Requirements vary by jurisdiction.
Trusted Resilience Expertise Behind RIA
RIA was created by Climate Resilience Consulting, drawing on more than a decade of work helping communities understand climate risks, develop practical strategies and move resilience projects toward implementation.
"Your report is fantastic. For someone with no experience in this sector, I found the report to be readable and easily understood."
"Thank you so much for working with us! We wouldn't have got to where we are without you."
"Nobody facilitates a meeting or manages a far-flung team like Joyce. Her ability to produce results is among the top of her field."
"My commissioner and I were so impressed with your facilitation skills and your persistence to equity."
"Best in class. Creative, innovative, and always generating practical solutions. Delivers on time, on budget, and with a level of clarity and confidence that makes complex work actionable."
"The tools and guidance directly connected to the real challenges our members face and helped them make the fiscal case for resilience."
"The deliverables were highly professional, consistent, and immediately usable enabling communities to take the next steps without delay."
"The outstanding quality of work delivered, even within limited time, made CRC a trusted extension of our team and a leader in resilience expertise."
"We've never worked with a consultant who delivers things so fast, so completely, and so effectively. They helped us move to the next levels."
"All communities supported were able to move forward with grant applications a strong testament to the approach and support provided."
"A true collaborative partner, bringing both expertise and a spirit of partnership that made even complex challenges feel manageable."
"Razor-sharp insights and a rare ability to see across the entire resilience field, bringing clarity exactly where it's needed most."
"Your report is fantastic. For someone with no experience in this sector, I found the report to be readable and easily understood."
"Thank you so much for working with us! We wouldn't have got to where we are without you."
"Nobody facilitates a meeting or manages a far-flung team like Joyce. Her ability to produce results is among the top of her field."
"My commissioner and I were so impressed with your facilitation skills and your persistence to equity."
"Best in class. Creative, innovative, and always generating practical solutions. Delivers on time, on budget, and with a level of clarity and confidence that makes complex work actionable."
"The tools and guidance directly connected to the real challenges our members face and helped them make the fiscal case for resilience."
"The deliverables were highly professional, consistent, and immediately usable enabling communities to take the next steps without delay."
"The outstanding quality of work delivered, even within limited time, made CRC a trusted extension of our team and a leader in resilience expertise."
"We've never worked with a consultant who delivers things so fast, so completely, and so effectively. They helped us move to the next levels."
"All communities supported were able to move forward with grant applications a strong testament to the approach and support provided."
"A true collaborative partner, bringing both expertise and a spirit of partnership that made even complex challenges feel manageable."
"Razor-sharp insights and a rare ability to see across the entire resilience field, bringing clarity exactly where it's needed most."
The Team Behind RIA
Built by people who've done this work
Joyce Coffee
Founder & President, Climate Resilience Consulting
"I've spent more than two decades in rooms with city managers, emergency directors, and mayors who want desperately to protect their communities but don't have six months or $150,000 to spend on a plan. RIA is what I wish I could have handed every one of them on day one."
National resilience trailblazer · Architect of Chicago's first municipal climate adaptation strategy in 2007 · Author, The Resilience Advantage · MIT City Planning.
Robert Macnee, PhD
Partner, Climate Resilience Consulting
"RIA came directly out of our work with communities. We saw how difficult it was to navigate data, funding, and priorities in one place, so we built a tool that brings it together and helps teams act with confidence."
Climate and community health expert · Climate resilience strategist · Supported $70M+ in public funding and evaluated $100M+ in projects · Co-author of The Resilience Advantage
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