How often are fire drills required in Texas?

Assisted Living Facility: One fire drill per quarter per shift, with at least one fire drill each month. Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Last checked July 2026.

Texas fire drill log

Q: Who do I notify about fire drills in Texas?

Assisted Living Facility: Texas requires the facility to attempt to obtain feedback on its emergency preparedness plan from the county Emergency Management Coordinator. (County Emergency Management Coordinator)

One fire drill per quarter per shift, with at least one fire drill each month.

The building

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

Facility name *Year

Address

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

Texas — Assisted Living Facility: One fire drill per quarter per shift, with at least one fire drill each month.26 TAC §553.275 (Type A and Type B assisted living facilities) · Texas Health and Human Services Commission · checked Jul 2026Who to notify: Texas requires the facility to attempt to obtain feedback on its emergency preparedness plan from the county Emergency Management Coordinator. (County Emergency Management Coordinator)State form: PR 2393

Your target for the year

36 drills this year. 12 per shift × 3 shifts = 36 a year.

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

Worked out from Texas Health and Human Services Commission'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 36 logged, 36 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.

DateTimeShiftAnnounced?

ScenarioClear / accounted (min)StaffResidents

What went wrongWhat was done about itConducted by

What Texas requires

Assisted Living Facility — Assisted living / residential care

One fire drill per quarter per shift, with at least one fire drill each month.

26 TAC §553.275 (Type A and Type B assisted living facilities) · Texas Health and Human Services Commission · Texas ALF drill guidance · checked July 2026Who to notify: Texas requires the facility to attempt to obtain feedback on its emergency preparedness plan from the county Emergency Management Coordinator. (County Emergency Management Coordinator)State form: PR 2393

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 Texas 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 Texas

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 — Texas’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.