If your home in Atlanta, unincorporated DeKalb County, unincorporated Cobb County, and unincorporated Gwinnett County is not livable after Isaias, you may be able to stay on your own property while it is repaired. We deliver a furnished travel trailer to your driveway or yard, set it up, have it connected, and service it for the whole stay. When a carrier approves the trailer, we can bill the carrier directly.
Local rules. Cobb and Gwinnett counties each have an emergency permit for a temporary trailer or RV while a home is repaired, issued at the county's discretion; Atlanta bars living in an RV on a residential lot, and DeKalb limits it to 14 consecutive days. Each rule is linked to its official source below.
Housing a crew? No code we found in Atlanta, DeKalb, Cobb, or Gwinnett lets a crew live in RVs on a job site; DeKalb's caretaker permit in industrial districts is the closest fit. Crew rules and housing
Satellite: GOES-East. Radar: NEXRAD. Track, cone, and warnings: National Hurricane Center Advisory 13. All at 4 PM CDT Oct. 9. Latest forecast: nhc.noaa.gov
Go back into an evacuated area, and plan a delivery there, only when local officials say it is safe, and follow road closures. For metro Atlanta, official updates come from the Atlanta-Fulton County Emergency Management Agency and Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency.
Checked against the sources above as of . For current conditions, go to the source.
Whether a trailer can stay on your lot is decided by your city, or by the county outside city limits, and by your HOA if you have one. Here is what each one’s own code or official page says, in short. Our parent brand covers the residential RV rules for Atlanta area in detail.
Governor Kemp's executive order of October 8, 2026 declared a statewide state of emergency for Hurricane Isaias, covering all of Georgia; it has no county list. The order does not set a rule for trailers on residential lots; the city or county decides. Cobb County's chairwoman signed a local declaration of emergency for Isaias that runs through October 11, 2026 unless renewed; the county's emergency RV permit is still at the board's discretion. As of October 9, 2026, we found no Isaias declaration from Atlanta, DeKalb, or Gwinnett. Most of Atlanta is in Fulton County and part is in DeKalb County; the cities inside the three counties, such as Marietta or Lawrenceville, have their own codes and are not covered here.
That depends on your policy and your adjuster. When a carrier approves the trailer, we can bill the carrier directly, so you are not fronting the cost. Our parent brand explains the claim side on 1st Choice Living’s Georgia page. Once the placement is arranged, the trailer, delivery, and service are ours.
Every size arrives furnished, with real beds, a full kitchen, a bathroom with a shower, and heat and air conditioning. More on a trailer on your property while you rebuild.
We work with any temporary housing company. If one is handling your housing, ask them to place you with Temporary RV Living, or with our parent brand, 1st Choice Living, for a trailer on your own lot in metro Atlanta. They send us the placement, and we deliver, set up, and service the trailer.
For restoration, roofing, tree, utility, and response crews working in Atlanta, unincorporated DeKalb County, unincorporated Cobb County, and unincorporated Gwinnett County. Bring the housing to the work. We deliver travel trailers to the site, or as close as the ground allows, and set up and connect them the same way we do in a driveway. A two-person crew fits one trailer. A full crew takes a cluster, and the Workforce Bunkhouse sleeps six or more per trailer, with a kitchen and a bathroom the crew shares. One point of contact runs the placement, it lands on one invoice billed directly to the company, and we handle the LOA, COI, and compliance paperwork your office or your client requires.
For crew trailers in metro Atlanta, an approved RV park or campground is where these codes put an RV. Ask the city's Office of Buildings, or the county planning office outside city limits, before delivery, with the address and how long the crew expects to stay. More on crew housing.
Water, sewer or septic, and electrical connections are completed by licensed, insured contractors from our preferred vendor network, so you do not hire an electrician or a plumber. We look at how far the trailer will sit from the water, sewer, and power it will use, and confirm the site with you on the call before the trailer rolls.
Electric service in metro Atlanta comes from the utilities below. Each posts its own outage and storm updates.
Septic: The Cobb and Gwinnett emergency permits need plans approved by the county health department. Georgia's on-site sewage rules cover systems serving recreational vehicles and require a county health department permit before any part of a septic system is installed. If the trailer will tie into a septic system, ask the county health department first. Source: Georgia Department of Public Health, on-site sewage rules, Chapter 511-3-1
Call the office for the city where the trailer will sit, or the county office outside city limits. Ask whether a travel trailer may be used there, for how long, and which permits the hookups need.
Answer a few questions in the request form and a rep calls you back with a written quote, or call (214) 493-1515.
Our sister brand LossMap covers documenting a property from the air before tarps go on and debris comes off, on LossMap’s Atlanta area page.
Atlanta's zoning code allows housing in travel trailers and similar units only in approved facilities, for up to 30 days, and bars living in an RV parked on a residential lot. We found no storm exception in the city code, so ask the Office of Buildings at 404-330-6150 before anyone moves in.
Yes, each county code lets the commissioners or their designees permit a temporary trailer or RV while the home is repaired, after a declaration by the Governor or the commission chairman, with engineered plans approved by the health department, for up to six months plus up to six more. Cobb County has signed a local Isaias emergency declaration, but both permits are discretionary, so ask the county planning office first.
DeKalb's zoning code says an RV or trailer parked in a residential district may not be occupied for more than 14 consecutive days. That is not a permit to live in it during repairs, so ask Planning and Sustainability at 404-371-2155 before a longer stay.
No code we found allows a crew camp on a job site. Atlanta and Cobb put RV housing in approved parks or campgrounds, Gwinnett's construction buildings are not housing, and DeKalb allows a trailer as a caretaker's residence in its industrial districts with a special administrative permit.
We deliver, set up, and service trailers nationwide, and have since 2004. Put the address in the request form and we confirm the site with you on the call. Plan a delivery only once local officials, including Atlanta-Fulton County Emergency Management, say the roads are safe.
Official pages and official code hosts, checked October 9, 2026. Rules can change after a storm; the office that wrote the rule has the final word.
For your family or a crew, answer a few questions and a rep calls you back with a written quote.
