Colorado Association of REALTORS® Encourage Colorado Residents to Sign Up for Local Emergency Notifications

If there was an emergency in your community, how would you learn about it? Social media? The news? Word of mouth? That could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. What if you could learn about it within a matter of seconds?

Email and phone emergency alerts are nothing new, but less than 20 percent of community members in Colorado are registered for these notifications. That means if there’s an emergency — which could range from a fast-spreading wildlife to an active shooter on the loose — less than a fifth of the community would know about it when it happened.

“You can’t have enough different ways to be informed,” said Michael Willis, director of the Colorado Office of Emergency Management. “You never know where you’re going to be at the time when it’s important… You need to give yourself the opportunity to be informed.”

Signing up for community alerts through text, email and call gives you the best chance of learning about a dangerous situation as early as possible, Willis said.

How do you sign up? Most cities, towns and counties have links on their websites that will take a user right to the page to sign up.

· Adams County alerts
· Alamosa County alerts
· Arapahoe County alerts
· Archuleta County alerts
· Baca County alerts
· Bent County alerts
· Boulder County alerts
· Broomfield County alerts
· Chaffee County alerts
· Cheyenne County alerts
· Clear Creek County alerts
· Conejos County alerts
· Costilla County alerts
· Crowley County alerts
· Custer County alerts
· Delta County alerts
· Denver County alerts
· Dolores County alerts (and click green “Sign Up” button)
· Douglas County alerts
· Eagle County alerts
· Elbert County alerts
· El Paso County alerts
· Fremont County alerts
· Garfield County alerts
· Gilpin County alerts
· Grand County alerts
· Gunnison County alerts
· Hinsdale County alerts
· Huerfano County alerts
· Jackson County alerts (click on the Code Red logo)
· Jefferson County alerts 
· Kiowa County alerts, to be added to the list, call the sheriff’s office at 719-438-5411 or the emergency management coordinator at 719-438-2288
· Kit Carson County alerts
· Lake County alerts
· La Plata County alerts
· Larimer County alerts
· Las Animas County alerts (sign up on city of Trinidad website)
· Lincoln County alerts
· Logan County alerts
· Mesa County alerts
· Mineral County alerts (sign up through Nixle by typing in your ZIP code)
· Moffat County alerts
· Montezuma County alerts
· Montrose County alerts
· Morgan County alerts
· Otero County alerts
· Ouray County alerts
· Park County alerts
· Phillips County alerts
· Pitkin County alerts
· Prowers County alerts
· Pueblo County alerts
· Rio Blanco County alerts
· Rio Grande County alerts
· Routt County alerts
· Saguache County alerts
· San Juan County alerts (sign up through Nixle by typing in your ZIP code)
· San Miguel County alerts
· Sedgewick County alerts
· Summit County alerts
· Teller County alerts
· Washington County alerts
· Weld County alerts
· Yuma County alerts

Click here to go to The Department of Homeland Security and Office of Emergency Management and review a list of emergency management contact information for counties across Colorado.

DHSEM has listed emergency management leaders’ contact information on its website .