2025 Colorado Resiliency Framework Update
To ensure that we are staying proactive, keeping our actions relevant, and maintaining a long-term view, the Colorado Resiliency Framework is updated every five years. The 2025 updates will improve Colorado communities’ ability to adapt to changing conditions by helping reduce risk, enhance collaboration, and identify solutions with co-benefits.
Colorado Definition of Resilience
“The ability of communities to rebound, positively adapt to, or thrive amidst changing conditions or challenges - including human-caused and natural disasters - and to maintain a quality of life, healthy growth, durable systems, economic vitality, and conservation of resources for present and future generations.”
Engagement Opportunities!
Interested in informing the Colorado Resiliency Framework update? We will have a wide range of opportunities and methods in which to participate!
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To help inform the update to the Colorado Resiliency Framework and to gather insights directly from local governments, the Colorado Resiliency Office (CRO) issued the Local Government Survey on Resilience Planning from April 7 to May 9, 2025. The Survey was first distributed in 2019.
Results for the 2025 Survey are now available.
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*NEW* Review the summary of the first and second Resiliency Summits to learn more about the ideas that have emerged thus far.
Virtual Resiliency Summit #1 (2025 Update Kick-Off)
This summit will provide updates on progress and accomplishments from the 2020 Framework, lay the groundwork for what can be expected from the 2025 Framework, and solicit feedback and input from participants to help shape planning priorities and identify gaps.
The planning process will focus on key resiliency priorities to focus strategies and actions such as those identified in the 2020 Framework that include future-ready economy and workforce, housing attainability, improved community capacity, and more. This process will help inform how these priorities may evolve in 2025.
Date: July 17, 2025 | 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Post-Summit Takeaway Materials
- Unfortunately we experienced technical difficulties with the Summit 1 recording and are unable to share it at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience!
- Launch presentation slides
Virtual Resiliency Summit #2 (Mid-Point)
This summit will build upon the first and will engage participants in helping the planning team shape and vet strategies that will be in the 2025 Framework.
Strategies are specific approaches that can be taken to advance a priority. For example, two strategies identified for improving community capacity in the 2020 framework were:
- Develop and deploy community engagement and civic capacity tools; and
- Strengthen local resilience planning & peer networks.
Date: August 14, 2025
Daytime Summit: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Please note: Due to low registration numbers the PM summit has been canceled.
Post-Summit Takeaway Materials
Virtual Resiliency Summit #3 (Draft Framework Session)
This summit will be an opportunity for participants to provide feedback on key elements of the draft 2025 Colorado Resiliency Framework.
Note: the full plan will not be presented at this summit but be available online for further review and comment later.
Your participation will help tailor and adjust the framework, ensuring it truly fits Colorado communities' needs.
Date: November 13, 2025
Note: There are two opportunities to participate on this date.
Daytime Summit: 1:00 pm - 3:00 p.m.
Register for the November AM Virtual Summit
Evening Summit: 5:30 pm - 7:00 p.m.
Resiliency Roundtable discussions will bring together State agencies and key partners from across the state together to brainstorm specific, concrete strategies that advance resilience within each priority area .
We have limited space available for each Resiliency Roundtable. If you are interested in attending one of these Roundtables, please let us know using this google form.
Roundtables will take place between September 18 and October 2, 2025 and will cover the following topics.
- Resiliency Hubs | September 18, 2-4pm
- Economic Resilience | September 23, 1-2:30pm
- Resilient, Affordable Housing | September 25, 9-11am
- Strategic Growth | September 29, 1-4pm
- Mitigating Risks to Hazards | September 30, 1-3pm
- Resilient Critical Infrastructure | October 2, 1-3pm
We want to collaborate with you to shape the Colorado Resiliency Framework. Share your feedback on the strategic direction of the CRF, your ideas for specific strategies to build resilience, and your resiliency stories. Your responses will influence the direction of the Framework, and by extension, Colorado’s future.
Please complete this survey by October 24, 2025.
Draft Documents
Draft materials that become available for comment will be placed within this section along with a form to provide comment. Please check back regularly for updates. We aim to provide materials for comment in the Fall of 2025, however, this timeline may be adjusted as the planning process progresses.
Stay Informed
The Colorado Resiliency Office’s monthly newsletter will include information and regular updates about the 2025 Colorado Resiliency Framework Update planning process.
Additionally, we encourage you to follow the Department of Local Affairs on LinkedIn.