If your home in Mobile, Prichard, Saraland, Theodore, Dauphin Island, and unincorporated Mobile 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. The City of Mobile lets a family live in an RV on the lot of a house made unfit to live in while it is repaired; Saraland does not allow it, and Dauphin Island needs Town Council approval. Each rule is linked to its official source below.
Housing a crew? No rule we found lets a crew live in RVs on a job site in the City of Mobile; Saraland’s City Council may permit a trailer where a building is under construction, and unincorporated Mobile County has no zoning. 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 Mobile County, official updates come from the Mobile 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 Mobile and Mobile County in detail.
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 Mobile 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 Mobile, Prichard, Saraland, Theodore, Dauphin Island, and unincorporated Mobile 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.
Saraland’s Council permission is the one rule we found here written for a trailer where a building is under construction. Everywhere else, ask the building 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 Mobile County comes from the utilities below. Each posts its own outage and storm updates.
Septic: Mobile County Inspection Services says that adding an RV to a property whose house is on a septic tank needs approval from the Mobile County Health Department. Source: Mobile County building permit information
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 Mobile and Mobile County page.
In the City of Mobile, the code lets an RV be lived in on the same lot while a house made unfit to live in is repaired or rebuilt, with water and sanitary facilities, for up to one year of active construction, and it must be vacated within 14 days after the certificate of occupancy. Saraland does not allow living in a travel trailer outside a park, and Prichard has no rule online, so check with those cities first.
Dauphin Island's zoning ordinance lets an RV be used as a residence for up to 180 days after a disaster with Town Council review and approval, and the Council may extend it. RVs may not sit on a vacant lot, and every RV must leave the island in an island-wide evacuation, so talk to the town's Building Department before delivery.
Not under any rule we found in the City of Mobile: its code allows construction office trailers for administrative use and bars living in trailers and RVs, except a family repairing its own home. Saraland’s City Council may permit a trailer where a building is under construction, after written notice to neighbors within 600 feet. Unincorporated Mobile County has no zoning, though building permits and the septic rule still apply. Ask the building office for the site before delivery.
If the house is on a septic tank, yes. Mobile County Inspection Services says adding an RV to a property on a septic system needs approval from the Mobile County Health Department. The county has no zoning in its unincorporated areas, so there is no county zoning rule on the RV itself.
We deliver, set up, and service trailers nationwide, and have since 2004. Put the Mobile address in the request form and we confirm the site with you on the call. Plan a delivery into an evacuated area only once local officials, including the Mobile County Emergency Management Agency, say it is safe to return.
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.
