If your home in Chipley, Vernon, Bonifay, unincorporated Washington County, and unincorporated Holmes 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. Washington County's own code, which also covers Vernon, points to Florida's 36-month temporary shelter law after a natural emergency; Chipley and Holmes County bar living in an RV except as state law allows, and Bonifay has no rule online. Each rule is linked to its official source below.
Housing a crew? No code we found in Washington or Holmes County lets a crew live in RVs on a job site; construction trailers and manufactured home offices are offices only. 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 Washington and Holmes Counties, official updates come from the Washington County Emergency Management and Florida Division of Emergency Management.
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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 Washington and Holmes counties in detail.
Washington and Holmes counties are both named in Florida's Isaias state of emergency, so the state shelter law below applies in every city and in the unincorporated counties. Bonifay's regulations are posted as scans with no RV section, so check with the city.
Florida law says that after the Governor declares a state of emergency for a natural emergency, a county (section 125.023) or a city (section 166.0335) may not prohibit one temporary shelter, which includes a recreational vehicle or trailer, on the residential property of a home that was damaged and made uninhabitable. That protection runs for up to 36 months after the declaration or until a certificate of occupancy is issued for the home, whichever comes first, and only while three things are true: the resident is making a good-faith effort to rebuild or renovate, such as applying for a building permit; the shelter is connected to water and electric utilities and is not a threat to health and safety; and the resident lives in it. Local permits for the hookups still apply.
Florida Statutes, section 125.023 (counties) | Florida Statutes, section 166.0335 (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 Florida 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 Washington and Holmes Counties. They send us the placement, and we deliver, set up, and service the trailer.
For restoration, roofing, tree, utility, and response crews working in Chipley, Vernon, Bonifay, unincorporated Washington County, and unincorporated Holmes 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.
Ask the city or county office for the site 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 Washington and Holmes Counties comes from the utilities below. Each posts its own outage and storm updates.
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 Washington and Holmes counties page.
Washington County's code says residents may place RVs and other temporary shelters on their property for up to 36 months after a natural emergency, under the conditions of Florida's shelter law: a good-faith effort to rebuild, water and electric hookups, and living in it. The same code covers Vernon. Ask the Planning Department at 850-415-5093 about permits.
Chipley's zoning code bars living in a trailer outside designated RV parks, but after the Governor's declaration, which names Washington County, Florida law keeps the city from barring one temporary shelter on the lot of a home made uninhabitable when its conditions are met. Ask Planning and Zoning at 850-638-6350 about permits and hookups.
No Bonifay RV rule was found in the city's posted regulations, so call City Hall at 850-547-4238. Holmes County's planning page says an RV may not be used as a primary residence. Florida's shelter law applies in both after the Governor's declaration, which names Holmes County. Ask the Holmes County Building Department at 850-547-1119.
No code we found allows it. Chipley allows a manufactured home on a construction site only as an office with no sleeping quarters, and Washington County, Bonifay, and Holmes County allow construction trailers with the building permit but not as living quarters. Ask the city or county before delivery.
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 Washington County or Holmes 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.
