The Code Blue 2024-2025 season begins on October 15, 2024, and concludes on April 30, 2025.
“Code blue event” means a weather event in which the National Weather Service predicts temperatures of 18 degrees Fahrenheit or less, including wind chill, or any other extreme weather conditions established in rules made by the Department of Health and Human Services under Subsection 35A-16-702(4), to occur in any county of the first, second, third, or fourth class for two hours or longer within the next 24 to 48 hours.
Utah Counties of 1st-4th Class
Utah Counties of 1st-4th Class
- Box Elder
- Cache
- Carbon
- Davis*
- Duchesne
- Iron
- Juab
- Millard
- Morgan
- San Juan
- Sanpete
- Sevier
- Uintah
- Tooele
- Washington*
- Weber*
- Summit
- Utah*
- Wasatch
- Salt Lake County*
*County of 1st or 2nd class: *Effective 5/1/2024: 35A-16-502. Winter response plan required
Code Blue tracking will begin on October 15, 2024.
How to Register for UNIS Code Blue Notifications
Code Blue Abbreviated Intake Process
In accordance with Utah State Code 35A-16-703 (2), shelters throughout the state must work with their Local Homeless Council (LHC) to implement expedited intake procedures in the event a code blue event is declared for that area. In order to ensure statewide consistency and to ensure that enough data is collected to understand and plan to address the need for additional shelter during extreme weather events, The Office of Homeless Services has established the following common standards for intake during a code blue event.
On-going Shelter Projects: These are projects that operate regularly outside of a declared code blue event. These include year-round and winter response shelters.
✔ Collect all data in the HMIS entry assessment
🗶 Do not conduct housing problem-solving at intake. Clients may be engaged in problem-solving while staying in the facility
✔ Coordinate with LHC to identify other ways to improve the efficiency of intake for the duration of the code blue event
Code Blue Specific Shelter Projects: These are projects that open in response to a code blue declaration and are not expected to operate outside the duration of the declaration.
✔ Collect the following data elements to create a deduplicated count of those accessing the shelter
and understand eligibility for other projects – Full Name, Date of Birth, Social Security Number, Gender
🗶 Do not collect other data elements in the HMIS entry assessment
🗶 Do not conduct housing problem-solving at intake. Clients may be engaged in problem-solving while staying in the facility
✔ Coordinate with LHC to identify other ways to improve the efficiency of intake for the duration of the code blue event
Information on the 2023-2024 Code Blue season can be found here.