How often are fire drills required in Mississippi?

Personal Care Home — Assisted Living: One fire drill per shift per quarter, with each employee taking part in a fire drill at least four times a year. Source: Mississippi State Department of Health — Health Facilities Licensure. Last checked July 2026.

Mississippi fire drill log

One fire drill per shift per quarter, with each employee taking part in a fire drill at least four times a year.

The building

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

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How many shifts does this building run? *Mississippi’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.

Mississippi — Personal Care Home — Assisted Living: One fire drill per shift per quarter, with each employee taking part in a fire drill at least four times a year.15 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 16, Subpt. 1, Ch. 47 (minimum standards for personal care homes — assisted living); fire drills at Rule 15-16-1-47.22.1. Institutions for the aged or infirm sit at Ch. 45. · Mississippi State Department of Health — Health Facilities Licensure · checked Jul 2026

Your target for the year

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

We assumed three shifts, since this licence is staffed around the clock. Change it below if that is wrong.

Worked out from Mississippi State Department of Health — Health Facilities Licensure'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.

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 Mississippi requires

Personal Care Home — Assisted Living — Assisted living / residential care

One fire drill per shift per quarter, with each employee taking part in a fire drill at least four times a year.

15 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 16, Subpt. 1, Ch. 47 (minimum standards for personal care homes — assisted living); fire drills at Rule 15-16-1-47.22.1. Institutions for the aged or infirm sit at Ch. 45. · Mississippi State Department of Health — Health Facilities Licensure · 15 Miss. Admin. Code Rule 15-16-1-47.22.1 · 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 Mississippi 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.

General information, not legal advice, and not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing — Mississippi’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.