Free Fire Escape Plan Maker for Your Home
Draw your home, the ways out of every room, your smoke alarms and where you’ll meet outside. Then print it on one page and practise it together. No floor plan, no account, nothing to install.
Drag on the grid to draw a room. Tap a room to name it.
Start with a layout
Pick the nearest one, then change the rooms to match your home.
- ○ Rooms drawn
- ○ Two ways out
- ○ Smoke alarms
- ○ Meeting place
Your plan details
Print it
One page with your drawing, a key, the meeting place, the number to call and a practice checklist. Free, no account.
Your drawing is saved in this browser only. Doing another floor? Download this one first, then start the next.
How to make a home fire escape plan
Do it together as a family. It takes about half an hour, and the drawing is the easy part.
Draw your home
Draw each floor: every room, the doors, the windows and the stairs. It doesn't need to be to scale, just clear. Children are great at this part.
Find two ways out of every room
The usual way out is the door. The second is often a window, or a different door. Make sure each window on the way out opens easily and isn't blocked by furniture.
Mark your smoke alarms
Fire services recommend a smoke alarm on every level of the home, and near the bedrooms. Test them every month. If one is missing, put it on your to-do list.
Choose a meeting place outside
Pick a spot a safe distance from the house that everyone will remember: a tree, a lamp post, a neighbour's gate. Then you know at once that everyone is out.
Know the number and your address
Write the fire department number on the plan (911, 999, 112 or whatever it is where you live) and your address, so anyone, a child or a babysitter, can call from outside.
Practise it, twice a year
Walk through the plan together, then practise it as a drill. Try it at night too and from different rooms. Time yourselves and see if you can get out quicker and calmer each time.
If the smoke alarm goes off
Talk these through when you practise, so everyone knows them without thinking.
Get out, stay out
Leave everything behind. Never go back inside for people, pets or things. Tell the firefighters if someone is missing.
Call from outside
Get out first, then call the fire department from your mobile or a neighbour's phone.
Get low under smoke
If there's smoke, stay low and go under it to your way out. The cleaner air is near the floor.
Feel the door first
Before you open a closed door, feel it with the back of your hand. If it's hot, use your second way out.
Close doors behind you
A closed door slows fire and smoke. Close doors as you leave, and keep bedroom doors closed at night.
Help those who need it
Decide in advance who helps babies, young children, older relatives and anyone who needs help to move.
Printable fire escape plan template
Prefer pencil and paper? Print the blank template and draw your home on the grid. It has the same key, a box for your meeting place and the fire department number, and the practice checklist.
- One page that prints on A4 or US Letter, fine in black and white
- Good for school fire safety homework and family projects
- Free to print and copy
What to put on your plan
- Every room on the floor, with its name
- The doors and windows you could leave by
- Two ways out of every room: a main way and a second way
- Every smoke alarm
- Your meeting place outside
- The fire department number and your address
Tips that make it work
- Hang the plan where everyone sees it, like the fridge or the back of a bedroom door.
- Keep the hall, stairs and the doors and windows on your way out clear.
- Keep door and window keys where everyone can reach them quickly.
- Make a plan for each floor of a two-storey home.
- Show visitors and babysitters the plan and the meeting place.
- Update it when you move furniture, change rooms or move house.
Have a floor plan? Make professional evacuation maps from it
For workplaces, landlords and buildings with several flats, upload a floor plan, photo or sketch to our main maker. You get a map for each room you pick, with “You are here”, the escape routes, exits and fire equipment. Free to make, your first map downloads free, and printed glow-in-the-dark signs if you want them.
Questions
What is a home fire escape plan?
A simple drawing of your home that shows every room, two ways out of each room, where the smoke alarms are, and an outside meeting place. Everyone who lives there knows it and practises it, so that if the alarm goes off, nobody has to think about what to do.
How do I make a fire escape plan for my home?
Draw each floor of your home, mark the doors and windows, then draw two ways out of every room. Mark the smoke alarms, choose a meeting place outside and write down the fire department number. You can draw it with the free maker on this page in a few minutes and print it on one page, or print the blank template and draw it by hand.
Is this fire escape plan maker really free?
Yes. Drawing, the PDF and the PNG are free, with no account and no email. Your drawing is saved in your own browser, not on our servers.
Why two ways out of every room?
A fire can block the usual way out, often the hall or the stairs. Fire services recommend knowing two ways out of every room, usually the door and a window, so you always have another way to go.
What if our second way out is an upstairs window?
Make sure the window opens easily and that everyone, including children, knows how to open it. Some families keep an escape ladder near upstairs windows; if you do, practise with it from a ground-floor window. If you can't get out, close the door, put a towel or clothes along the gap under it, and signal from the window, calling the fire department if you can.
How often should we practise our fire escape plan?
Fire services commonly recommend practising at least twice a year. Pick two dates you'll remember, like the start of the school year and a birthday, and test your smoke alarms on the same day. Try it at least once at night too, as if the alarm had just woken you.
Can I use this for school fire safety homework?
Yes. Pick a starter layout like the small apartment or the bungalow, change the rooms to match your home, add the arrows and the meeting place, and print it. Or print the blank template and draw it by hand with your family. Ask your teacher if they would like the PDF or a printout.
I'm a landlord. Can I make plans for my tenants?
For a single house or flat, this maker is a quick way to give tenants a clear plan. For a building with shared corridors and stairs, several flats or an HMO, use our main evacuation plan maker: upload a floor plan and it makes a map for each door, with "You are here".
Does it work on a phone or tablet?
Yes. Draw with your finger: drag to draw rooms and arrows, tap to place doors, windows, smoke alarms and the meeting place. The PDF and PNG download straight to your device.
This page gives general home fire safety advice, the kind fire services widely publish. Your local fire service may have more advice for your area and home; they’re the people to ask.