If your home in Selma, and unincorporated Dallas 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. Selma's code bars placing a house trailer or mobile home on any lot and has no storm or disaster exception we could find; Dallas County has no RV rule online, so check with the city or county first. Each rule is linked to its official source below.
Housing a crew? No code we found in Selma lets a crew live in RVs on a job site; the city bars using a portable or mobile building for living, and office trailers need City Council 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 Dallas County, official updates come from the Dallas County Emergency Management and Homeland Security 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 Selma and Dallas County in detail.
Dallas County is one of the 40 counties named in Governor Ivey's October 7, 2026 state of emergency proclamation for Isaias.
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 Dallas 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 Selma, and unincorporated Dallas 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 Selma's Building Inspector's Office, or the Dallas County Engineering Department 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 Dallas County comes from the utilities below. Each posts its own outage and storm updates.
Septic: Alabama's onsite sewage rules, which county health departments apply, count a recreational vehicle as a dwelling and say no one may occupy a dwelling unless it has an approved sewage disposal system. If the trailer will tie into a septic system, ask the county health department first. Source: Alabama Administrative Code r. 420-3-1-.05 (onsite sewage)
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 Selma and Dallas County page.
Not under any rule we found. Selma's code bars placing a house trailer or mobile home on any lot regardless of zoning and makes it unlawful to keep a portable or mobile building for living, and we found no storm or disaster exception. Those sections do not name RVs, so ask the Building Inspector's Office at 334-876-1210 before delivery.
No rule we found allows it. Selma bars using a portable or mobile building for living anywhere in the city, and office trailers need City Council approval and a building permit and are for office use only. Ask the city before an occupied trailer goes on a site.
No county zoning, building permit, or RV rule was found on an official Dallas County page, so call the Dallas County Engineering Department at 334-874-2503 and ask which office covers a trailer on your property.
Ask first. Alabama's onsite sewage rules, which county health departments apply, count a recreational vehicle as a dwelling and say no one may occupy a dwelling unless it has an approved sewage disposal system. The Dallas County Health Department can tell you what it needs.
We deliver, set up, and service trailers nationwide, and have since 2004. Put the Dallas County address in the request form and we confirm the site with you on the call. Plan a delivery only once local officials, including Dallas 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.
