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.”
Summer 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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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.
Register for the July Virtual Summit
Kick-Off Summit Agenda
2:00 - 2:10 p.m. | Welcome: Three Coloradoans will share their ideas hopes of a resilient future, grounding us in creativity and the diverse strengths shaping our collective path forward.
2:10 - 2:30 p.m. | Looking Ahead
- The Colorado Resiliency Office (CRO) will share progress and highlights since the 2020 update of the Colorado Resiliency Framework. The CRO will also share goals for the statewide update, including an overview of the North Stars guiding this work and how the 2020 priorities are evolving into 2025 Key Impact Areas.
- Members from the planning team will ground us in the latest data, literature, and findings—highlighting current risks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities, as well as key insights from the recent resiliency survey.
2:30 - 3:40 p.m. | Breakout Discussions on Key Areas of Impact: Participants will self-select into the following areas for facilitated discussion:
- Managing Risk to Hazards
- Resilient Critical Infrastructure
- Strategic Growth and Land Use
- Resilient and Affordable Housing
- Human Capacity Building
- Economic Resilience
- Adaptive Funding and Resources
Learn more about the Key Areas of Impact
3:40 - 3:50 p.m. | Share Out: We’ll come back together as a full group to hear key themes, insights, and priorities that emerged across the seven Key Impact Areas, helping us reflect on what we’re learning collectively and where momentum is building.
3:50 - 4:00 p.m. | Next Steps and Closing Remarks
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
Note: There are two opportunities to participate on this date.
Daytime Summit: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Register for the August AM Virtual Summit
Evening Summit: 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Register for the August PM Virtual Summit
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.
Roundtable discussions will bring together people from across the state with a wide variety of experiences and expertise to help define specific, concrete actions that advance resilience within each priority area and strategy identified in the virtual summits.
Virtual Roundtable 1: Topic to be Announced Soon!
Date: September 11 | 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Registration Available Soon
Virtual Roundtable 2: Topic to be Announced Soon!
Date: September 18 | 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Registration Available Soon
Virtual Roundtable 3: Topic to be Announced Soon!
Date: September 25 | 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Registration Available Soon
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.
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