If your home in DeFuniak Springs, Freeport, Santa Rosa Beach, Miramar Beach, the 30A beach communities, and unincorporated Walton 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. Florida law keeps a county or city from barring one temporary shelter on a damaged home's lot after the Governor's declaration, which names Walton County; DeFuniak Springs and Freeport also have their own emergency rules, and the county bars RVs in its coastal V and Coastal A zones outside RV parks. Each rule is linked to its official source below.
Housing a crew? DeFuniak Springs lets a travel trailer serve as temporary shelter while construction is under way on the same lot; Freeport and unincorporated Walton County have no RV crew housing rule. 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 Walton County, official updates come from the Walton County Emergency Management and Florida Division of Emergency Management.
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 Walton County in detail.
Walton County is named in Florida's Isaias state of emergency, so the state shelter law below applies. The county's coastal flood rule and the state law can point different ways on a beachfront lot; ask Walton County Planning and Development Services, 850-267-1955, and the floodplain administrator before placing a unit there.
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 Walton 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 DeFuniak Springs, Freeport, Santa Rosa Beach, Miramar Beach, the 30A beach communities, and unincorporated Walton 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.
DeFuniak Springs' construction-period rule is the one written for living in a travel trailer on a job site here. Ask the city, or Walton County Planning and Development Services 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 Walton County 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 Walton County page.
Florida law says that after the Governor's declaration, which names Walton County, a county or city may not bar one temporary shelter, such as an RV, on the lot of a home made uninhabitable, for up to 36 months or until a certificate of occupancy, while you work in good faith to rebuild, live in it, and keep it connected to water and power. Local permits for the hookups still apply.
Ask first. Walton County's flood rules bar RVs in the Regulatory Floodway, Zone V, and Coastal A Zones except in existing RV parks, which covers much of the beachfront, and that can point a different way from the state shelter law. Call Walton County Planning and Development Services at 850-267-1955 before placing a unit.
DeFuniak Springs allows living in a travel trailer during or right after a state of emergency with the city manager's express permission, or while construction is under way on the lot. Freeport allows a travel trailer as temporary living quarters after hurricane damage, on application and an emergency finding by the Mayor or City Manager, for up to six months. State law also applies in both.
DeFuniak Springs' code lets a travel trailer serve as temporary shelter while construction is under way on the same premises. Freeport bars travel trailers even as temporary offices, and unincorporated Walton County allows only a contractor's office and sheds, or a manufactured home, during construction. Ask before delivery.
We deliver, set up, and service trailers nationwide, and have since 2004. Put the Walton County 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 Walton County Emergency Management, 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.
