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This guide provides detailed, Colorado-specific information about how to assess a community’s risk level to hazards and how to implement numerous land use planning tools and strategies for reducing a community’s risk. It provides detailed descriptions of a range of land use planning mechanisms that can be used to reduce risk to hazards. Further, it includes information from other federal agencies and Colorado’s leading experts on the subject, and represents varying community sizes, locations, and values.

Hazards are occurring more frequently in Colorado, and with greater severity. This guide helps Colorado to be more resilient and able to protect its residents and property from the devastating impacts of natural and human-caused hazards. It enables counties and municipalities to prepare for and mitigate multiple hazards by integrating resilience and hazard mitigation principles into plans, codes, and standards related to land use and the built environment.