If your home in Hattiesburg, Petal, unincorporated Forrest County, Purvis, Sumrall, and unincorporated Lamar 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. Hattiesburg and Petal bar living in an RV on a residential lot with no storm exception we could find, Purvis limits sleeping in one to 15 days a year, and Lamar County's disaster rule covers a manufactured home, not an RV; ask before anyone moves in. Each rule is linked to its official source below.
Housing a crew? No code we found in Forrest or Lamar County lets a crew live in RVs on a job site; Purvis allows construction and security offices, not quarters. 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 Forrest and Lamar Counties, official updates come from the Forrest County Emergency Management (MEMA county contacts) and Mississippi MEMA.
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 Hattiesburg area in detail.
As of October 9, 2026, we found no statewide Isaias emergency declaration for Mississippi on the Governor's or MEMA's sites. Part of Hattiesburg lies in Lamar County; city rules apply there too.
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 Mississippi 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 Forrest and Lamar 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 Hattiesburg, Petal, unincorporated Forrest County, Purvis, Sumrall, and unincorporated Lamar 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 the Forrest or Lamar 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 Forrest and Lamar Counties comes from the utilities below. Each posts its own outage and storm updates.
Septic: Mississippi's on-site wastewater regulations cover recreational vehicles in RV parks and on tracts with several units, but we found no rule written for hooking one trailer to a home's septic system during a repair. If the trailer will tie into a septic system, ask the county health department first. Source: Mississippi State Department of Health, On-Site Wastewater Regulations
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 Hattiesburg area page.
Not under any rule we found. Hattiesburg's Land Development Code says a camper, trailer, or RV may not be used for living, sleeping, or housekeeping on any lot, and the current code has no storm or disaster exception. Ask Community Development, Building at 601-554-1004, before delivery.
Petal bars living or sleeping in an RV on a residential lot, and its disaster provision covers a temporary construction building, not an RV. Purvis says RVs and campers may not be used for sleeping in a residential district for more than 15 days a year. Ask the Petal Building Department at 601-544-6048 or Purvis City Hall at 601-794-2472.
No Forrest County zoning or RV rule was found, so ask the county Planning Department. Lamar County's zoning treats RVs as vehicles, not residences, and its disaster rule lets the Board of Supervisors approve a manufactured or mobile home, not an RV, while a home is rebuilt. Ask the Lamar County Planning Department before placing an RV.
No code we found allows it. Hattiesburg and Petal bar living in RVs outside approved locations, and Purvis allows factory-built offices for construction and security personnel, not living quarters. Ask the city or county before an occupied trailer goes on a site.
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 Forrest or Lamar 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.
