How long must Michigan fire drill records be kept?

Adult Foster Care Facility: Records of emergency preparedness plan practices maintained for 2 years.

Michigan fire drill log

Four fire drills a year, two of them during sleeping hours. Separately the licensee must practice the emergency preparedness plan — including the fire safety plan — at least once a quarter on EACH shift, counted against Michigan's named shifts of 7am–3pm, 3pm–11pm and 11pm–7am.

The building

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

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How many shifts does this building run? *Michigan’s rule counts drills per shift, so this is the difference between “three drills done” and “all three shifts covered”. Saved to your facility, so nothing else asks again.

Michigan — Adult Foster Care Facility: Four fire drills a year, two of them during sleeping hours. Separately the licensee must practice the emergency preparedness plan — including the fire safety plan — at least once a quarter on EACH shift, counted against Michigan's named shifts of 7am–3pm, 3pm–11pm and 11pm–7am.Mich. Admin. Code R 400.601 et seq. (adult foster care) · Michigan Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) — Bureau of Community and Health Systems · checked Jul 2026Keep the record: Records of emergency preparedness plan practices maintained for 2 years.

Your target for the year

12 drills this year. 4 per shift × 3 shifts = 12 a year.

We assumed three shifts. Change it below if that is wrong.

Worked out from Michigan Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) — Bureau of Community and Health Systems'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 12 logged, 12 to go.

0 of them recorded on a night or sleeping-hours shift; Michigan wants at least 2.

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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ScenarioClear / accounted (min)StaffResidents

What went wrongWhat was done about itConducted by

What Michigan requires

Adult Foster Care Facility — Group home / residential care home

Mich. Admin. Code R 400.601 et seq. (adult foster care) · Michigan Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) — Bureau of Community and Health Systems · LARA AFC licensing rules; MDHHS AFC/HFA Emergency Preparedness Toolkit · checked July 2026Keep the record: Records of emergency preparedness plan practices maintained for 2 years.

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 Michigan 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 Michigan

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 — Michigan’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.