If your home in New Orleans, unincorporated Jefferson Parish, St. Bernard Parish, and Plaquemines Parish 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. New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish bar living in an RV on a residential lot; Jefferson Parish's Council can waive that by resolution after a declared disaster, and Plaquemines Parish lets an owner live in a trailer while rebuilding after a hurricane, with Council approval. Each rule is linked to its official source below.
Housing a crew? New Orleans and Jefferson Parish have no crew housing route for RVs; St. Bernard Parish provides for a small worker RV area with Council approval, and Plaquemines Parish provides for temporary RV permits in limited areas. 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 Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines parishes, official updates come from the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (NOLA Ready) and Louisiana GOHSEP.
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 parish 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 New Orleans area in detail.
As of October 9, 2026, we found no Isaias emergency proclamation by Louisiana's Governor on the Governor's newsroom or GOHSEP's Isaias page, and no Isaias declaration by the parishes on this page. Louisiana law sets up a state expedited temporary housing program, run by GOHSEP, that can follow a presidential disaster declaration for parishes that have certified they will waive land use rules for an RV or other temporary housing next to the survivor's damaged home; it does not apply unless such a declaration is made. The cities inside Jefferson Parish, such as Kenner, Gretna, and Westwego, 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 Louisiana 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 Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines parishes. They send us the placement, and we deliver, set up, and service the trailer.
For restoration, roofing, tree, utility, and response crews working in New Orleans, unincorporated Jefferson Parish, St. Bernard Parish, and Plaquemines Parish. 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.
Plaquemines Parish's ordinance table also lists moratoriums on new RV permits in parts of the parish, so ask the Permits Department whether one applies. For any crew trailer in these parishes, ask the permit 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 Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines parishes comes from the utilities below. Each posts its own outage and storm updates.
Septic: Louisiana's plumbing code requires a vented trailer trap in the building sewer immediately downstream of a travel trailer's drain outlet wherever one is connected. The licensed contractors who make the hookup follow it; ask the parish permit office which permits the hookup needs. Source: Louisiana State Plumbing Code, LAC 51:XIV (Louisiana Department of Health)
Call the office for the city where the trailer will sit, or the parish 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 New Orleans area page.
New Orleans' Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance says no RV may be used for living, sleeping, or housekeeping in any district, and an RV on a residential lot may not be hooked up to utilities. We found no storm or disaster exception, so ask the Department of Safety and Permits at (504) 658-7200 before anyone moves in.
Only if the Parish Council adopts a post-disaster resolution waiving zoning for RVs and travel trailers on residential property, which can require a building permit for the repair and set an end date. As of October 9, 2026, we found no Isaias resolution. Ask Jefferson Parish Building Permits at 504-736-6957.
St. Bernard Parish bars living in an RV outside a permitted RV park and has no storm exception we could find. Plaquemines Parish lets an owner live in a temporary trailer in the single-family districts while rebuilding after a hurricane, flood, or tornado, with Parish Council approval, for six months, extendable once by six months.
Not in New Orleans or unincorporated Jefferson Parish under any rule we found. St. Bernard Parish has a temporary worker housing use of up to five RVs, approved by the Parish Council, for up to 180 consecutive days. Plaquemines Parish provides for temporary RV permits only in limited areas; confirm the current terms with the parish. Ask the permit office first.
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 NOLA Ready and the parish emergency offices, 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.
