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Climate Action Questionnaire

Complete the survey by January 20, 2025, to be entered into the drawing for a $50 grocery gift card. Don't miss this opportunity to share your opinion and make a difference in Lakewood!

From extreme heat and cold, to flooding and hailstorms, local weather is becoming more unpredictable and extreme. Many of these changes, along with disasters like wildfires, are shaped by the changing climate.  

The City of Lakewood is conducting a Climate Hazard & Social Vulnerability Study to learn about the risks of these hazards and identify potential actions to prevent harm to our community. We are looking for your input to help us understand your concerns and prioritize actions that will help our community to become more resilient to extreme weather and climate hazards.

Feedback collected in this questionnaire will help to inform initiatives to improve Lakewood's climate resilience. A report summarizing the questionnaire results will be published on the City of Lakewood’s website in early 2025.  

This questionnaire has 2 parts:

  • Part 1 includes an overview of existing and potential actions, and will take between 15 and 20 minutes to complete. After completing Part 1, provide your contact information to enter in a drawing for a $50 grocery gift card, then you may either submit your responses and leave or continue to Part 2 of the questionnaire.
  • Part 2 part takes a more detailed look at experiences with existing programs and opinions about how potential action ideas may work in Lakewood. This part will take an additional 15 to 20 minutes to complete. If you choose to respond to Part 2 of the questionnaire, you will be entered into a drawing for an additional $50 grocery gift card, improving your chances of winning.


Demographic information provided will help us understand the diverse needs of people in the Lakewood community. You can skip any topic or questions. If you decide to offer your contact information for the purposes of the gift card drawing, your questionnaire responses will be analyzed anonymously.

Please contact Senior Sustainability Planner Caitlin Long at CaiLon@lakewood.org if you have any questions about the questionnaire.

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Part 1, Section 1: Understanding your concerns

The main focus of the Climate Hazard & Social Vulnerability Study is to identify ways to reduce Lakewood’s vulnerability to extreme heat and cold, flooding, wildfires, and hailstorms. Climate resilience is the ability to cope with and recover from hazardous events, trends, and disturbances related to climate change. Improving climate resilience involves taking actions to reduce the risk of extreme weather and other climate hazards while preparing to respond to disaster events to minimize harm to our community. 

Climate Hazards and Vulnerabilities

Lakewood is expected to face more severe and unpredictable weather events like floods, hailstorms, wildfires, and extreme heat and cold. These changes increase the risk of dangers to people, buildings, businesses, and natural areas. For example:

  • Floods and Hailstorms: More property damage and personal injuries.
  • Wildfires: More property damage and poor air quality affecting everyone's health.
  • Heat Waves: Higher temperatures and water shortages.
  • Cold Snaps: Increased energy use and the need for emergency shelters.


These weather changes related to climate change can have serious impacts on our community's safety and well-being.

Drawing on climate models, research on local conditions, and public input, the project team identified key vulnerabilities related to climate hazards in Lakewood. The following vulnerabilities will be explored in this questionnaire: 

  • Property damage: Site-specific events such as wildfire and flooding can damage property, displace people, and require costly repairs. Communitywide events such as hailstorms can also lead to damage of homes, cars and infrastructure. For example, the 2017 hailstorm damaged many mobile homes in the Lakewood and Denver metro area. Over 17,000 re-roof permits were issued in 2017, compared to a normal year of about 1,000. It forced the closure of Colorado Mills mall for nearly one year.
  • Health risks and personal injury: More frequent floods, wildfires, and hailstorms are leading to an increase in accidents and injuries. Extreme heat and breathing wildfire smoke can cause negative health impacts for many people, including infants and children, pregnant people, older adults, people working outdoors, and people with pre-existing health conditions. Wildfires, smoke and flooding can negatively affect people’s mental health (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety).
  • Decline in water supply and quality: Extreme weather can damage our water infrastructure and disrupt access to drinking water. Increased water demand during times of extreme heat and drought can result in less water being available for other uses at homes and businesses. Extremely cold temperatures can cause water pipes to break and shut down water supply to individual buildings or to large areas of a city.
  • Energy disruption: Increased energy usage during extreme heat and cold can challenge infrastructure capacity to meet high demand. Power outages due to hailstorms, wildfire and flooding can make everyday life, such as the tasks of boiling water or keeping warm, very difficult.
  • Reduced access to essential services: Wildfires, hailstorms and flooding can cause power outages, delay travel (like road closures) and disrupt communications networks, making it harder for medical offices, schools, and grocery stores to safely operate. Such extreme weather events can also increase demand for public resources such as emergency medical services (EMS), emergency shelters, and debris removal.
  • Decline in the natural environment: Extreme heat and cold, wildfires, hailstorms, and flooding change ecosystems in our backyards, parks, and open spaces. For example, hailstorms and extreme cold can severely damage trees, reducing their ability to provide animal habitat or a safe shaded area in the summer. These spaces can require increased maintenance and planning efforts.
Property damage (homes, cars, belongings)
Health risks and personal injury
Decline in water quality or supply
Energy disruption and power outages
Reduced access to essential services (schools, grocery stores, healthcare, etc.)
Decline in the natural environment