How often are fire drills required in Kentucky?

Kentucky fire drill log

Fire and evacuation drills in residential care / assisted living facilities must include COMPLETE EVACUATION of the premises, under the Kentucky Fire Code. The licensing regulations do not set their own separate count — the fire code governs the cadence.

The building

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

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Kentucky — Assisted-Living Community — certified, not licensed: Fire and evacuation drills in residential care / assisted living facilities must include COMPLETE EVACUATION of the premises, under the Kentucky Fire Code. The licensing regulations do not set their own separate count — the fire code governs the cadence.KRS 194A.700–729; 910 KAR 1:240 (certification of assisted-living communities); 902 KAR 20:480 (assisted living communities) · Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services — Department for Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) certifies; Office of Inspector General licenses other classes · checked Jul 2026

Your target for the year

We do not have a verified drill frequency for this licence, so there is no number to start you off. Ask Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services — Department for Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) certifies; Office of Inspector General licenses other classes and put their answer here — the log works either way.

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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 Kentucky requires

Assisted-Living Community — certified, not licensed — Assisted living / residential care

KRS 194A.700–729; 910 KAR 1:240 (certification of assisted-living communities); 902 KAR 20:480 (assisted living communities) · Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services — Department for Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) certifies; Office of Inspector General licenses other classes · Kentucky Fire Code ch. 4 (adopted IFC), emergency planning and preparedness · 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 Kentucky 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 Kentucky

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 — Kentucky’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.