How often are fire drills required in Colorado?

Assisted Living Residence: Staff must be trained in emergency procedures, and at least one UNANNOUNCED drill is conducted annually. Source: Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment — Health Facilities and EMS Division. Last checked July 2026.

Colorado fire drill log

Staff must be trained in emergency procedures, and at least one UNANNOUNCED drill is conducted annually.

The building

Colorado requirements loaded — the rules below are Colorado’s own.

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Colorado — Assisted Living Residence: Staff must be trained in emergency procedures, and at least one UNANNOUNCED drill is conducted annually.6 CCR 1011-1 Chapter 7, Section 10 (emergency preparedness for assisted living residences) · Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment — Health Facilities and EMS Division · checked Jul 2026

Your target for the year

1 drills this year. 1 a year under the state rule.

Worked out from Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment — Health Facilities and EMS Division's rule as we have it recorded. Confirm it against your licence before you rely on it — then leave the box below empty and we will keep using this number.

Use a different number instead

0 of 1 logged, 1 to go.

The drills

One row per drill. Vary the time of day and the scenario — most states require it explicitly, and a log showing four drills all at 10am on a Tuesday is the first thing a surveyor notices.

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What Colorado requires

Assisted Living Residence — Assisted living / residential care

Staff must be trained in emergency procedures, and at least one UNANNOUNCED drill is conducted annually.

6 CCR 1011-1 Chapter 7, Section 10 (emergency preparedness for assisted living residences) · Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment — Health Facilities and EMS Division · 6 CCR 1011-1 Chapter 7 Section 10 · checked July 2026

Filling it in so it survives a survey

Vary the time and the scenario between drills — most states require it in terms, and a log showing every drill at 10am on a Tuesday is the first thing an experienced surveyor picks out. Record what went wrong and the date it was fixed: a run of flawless drills reads as a log nobody actually ran, and the corrective action is the part that shows the drill was worth holding.

The plan behind the drills

A drill tests a plan. Everything Colorado requires of that plan — filing, prescribed forms, retention — sits alongside this, and the emergency plan builder writes it from the same research, so the two cannot disagree.

Everything else we’ve researched about Colorado

Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.

General information, not legal advice, and not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing — Colorado’s licensing agency and your authority having jurisdiction do. The rule above is cited and dated to when we last checked it; verify it before you rely on it.