Montana fire drill log

An employee AND resident fire drill at least twice a year, NO CLOSER THAN FOUR MONTHS APART, including residents, employees and support staff on duty and anyone else in the facility. A resident fire drill may be run by making a general announcement throughout the facility that a drill is being conducted, or by sounding the alarm.

The building

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

Montana — Assisted Living Facility: An employee AND resident fire drill at least twice a year, NO CLOSER THAN FOUR MONTHS APART, including residents, employees and support staff on duty and anyone else in the facility. A resident fire drill may be run by making a general announcement throughout the facility that a drill is being conducted, or by sounding the alarm.Admin. R. Mont. 37.106.28 subchapter (assisted living); construction and fire codes at 37.106.2866; all-facility disaster plan at 37.106.322 · Montana Dept. of Public Health and Human Services · checked Jul 2026Keep the record: Fire drill records kept on the premises for 24 months, showing date and time, the names of employees who took part, and identification of residents needing assistance to evacuate. The annual fire inspection record is kept at least 3 years.
Your target for the year

2 drills this year. 2 a year under the state rule.

Worked out from Montana Dept. of Public Health and Human Services'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.

0 of 2 logged, 2 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 Montana requires

Assisted Living Facility — Assisted living / residential care

An employee AND resident fire drill at least twice a year, NO CLOSER THAN FOUR MONTHS APART, including residents, employees and support staff on duty and anyone else in the facility. A resident fire drill may be run by making a general announcement throughout the facility that a drill is being conducted, or by sounding the alarm.

Admin. R. Mont. 37.106.28 subchapter (assisted living); construction and fire codes at 37.106.2866; all-facility disaster plan at 37.106.322 · Montana Dept. of Public Health and Human Services · Admin. R. Mont. 37.106.28 subchapter · checked July 2026Keep the record: Fire drill records kept on the premises for 24 months, showing date and time, the names of employees who took part, and identification of residents needing assistance to evacuate. The annual fire inspection record is kept at least 3 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 Montana 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 Montana

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 — Montana’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.