This document 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. This guide provides detailed, Colorado-specific information about how to assess a communitys risk level to hazards and how to implement numerous land use planning tools and strategies for reducing a communitys risk. This...

Colorado experienced its costliest disaster in September 2013. A significant amount of damage caused by the 2013 floods took place in areas that were outside the mapped regulatory floodplain, known as the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA). Recognizing the critical need to update hazard mapping and help inform local and state efforts to reduce such losses in future events, the State set out to reexamine various flood risks throughout the communities...

The implementation of a comprehensive program of floodplain management is necessary for the long-term success of a community's flood mitigation strategies.