If your home in Birmingham, Hoover, Bessemer, and unincorporated Jefferson 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. Unincorporated Jefferson County may permit an RV for up to a year when the need comes from fire or natural disaster damage; Birmingham and Hoover cap a trailer outside a park at a few days in six months, and Bessemer allows living in one only in a park. Each rule is linked to its official source below.
Housing a crew? No city code we found here lets a crew live in RVs on a job site; Jefferson County's emergency relief permit does not say who may live in the unit, so it takes the Director's approval. 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 Jefferson County, official updates come from the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency and Alabama EMA.
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 Birmingham area in detail.
Jefferson County was not among the 40 counties named in Governor Ivey's October 7, 2026 state of emergency proclamation for Isaias. The county's zoning resolution applies only outside the cities.
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 Alabama 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 Jefferson County. They send us the placement, and we deliver, set up, and service the trailer.
For restoration, roofing, tree, utility, and response crews working in Birmingham, Hoover, Bessemer, and unincorporated Jefferson 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.
Jefferson County's temporary emergency relief permit is the closest route to crew housing we found here, and it applies only outside city limits. Ask Development Services, or the city building office, 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 Jefferson County comes from the utilities below. Each posts its own outage and storm updates.
Septic: The Jefferson County Department of Health's on-site sewage regulations require its written approval before a mobile home is connected to an existing septic system, and have no rule written for RVs. If the trailer will tie into a septic system, call the Health Department's Community Environmental Protection program at (205) 930-1230 first. Source: Jefferson County Department of Health, on-site sewage disposal
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 Birmingham area page.
Only briefly under the code we found. Birmingham counts a travel trailer used for sleeping as a mobile home, and outside a mobile home park one may be parked or lived in for no more than seven days in total in any six-month period, with no storm or disaster exception. Ask the Permitting Division at 205-254-2904 before anyone stays longer.
The county's zoning resolution lets the Director of Development Services grant temporary emergency relief for a mobile home, RV, or tiny home on your property when the need comes directly from fire or natural disaster damage, for no more than one year. It is a permit, not automatic, so apply to Development Services at 205-325-5321 first.
Hoover bars parking or occupying a trailer coach for more than four days in total in any six-month period outside a permitted trailer park, unless it meets the city's codes for stationary dwellings. Bessemer allows living in a travel trailer only in an authorized mobile home park. Neither has a storm exception we found, so ask Hoover Inspection Services at 205-444-7522 or Bessemer Building Inspections.
No city code we found allows it: Birmingham, Hoover, and Bessemer allow construction trailers as offices or storage only. Outside city limits, Jefferson County's temporary emergency relief permit does not say who may live in the unit, so crew use takes the property owner's application and the Director's approval. Ask before delivery.
We deliver, set up, and service trailers nationwide, and have since 2004. Put the Jefferson County address in the request form and we confirm the site with you on the call. Plan a delivery only once local officials, including the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency, 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.
