City in Alaska
Ketchikan, AK Mobile Kitchen Trailer Lease for Renovations
Emergency Commercial Mobile Kitchen Service rents mobile commercial kitchen trailers to facilities in Ketchikan, Alaska, with commercial dishwashing trailers and emergency refrigerated trailers as supporting services. Emergency meal service for breakdowns, fires and floods is available alongside planned renovation and construction rentals. Rentals start at one week and continue by the month, with long-term leasing for longer rebuilds. Renters in this area include jails, disaster-response teams and manufacturers. Our team coordinates delivery, placement and setup with your site contacts. Request availability and a quote for your project in Ketchikan, AK, or in Craig.
24/7 emergency line: (877) 416-7535
- Population (2024 est.)
- 8,033
- County
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi
- FEMA declarations (county)
- 1
Mobile commercial kitchen rental in Ketchikan
Temporary modular kitchens are how Ketchikan facilities keep serving through a closure. A modular commercial kitchen rental brings the cooking line to the site, with kitchen setup for renovations planned around your schedule. A project that crosses into Craig (about 1,051 residents) usually keeps one menu, one crew and one power plan, which is why the kitchen is chosen first.
Match the trailer to the menu: the 38ft Mobile Kitchen for a focused cooking line, the 28ft Mobile Kitchen for more production room, and the 24ft Mobile Kitchen where bulk cooking or a walk-in cooler matters. Power requirements are shown on every page.
Dishwashing and emergency refrigeration in Ketchikan
If the dish room is closed too, add a warewashing trailer. The 38ft Low-Temp Conveyor Dishwashing Trailer needs 220V, single phase, 220A; plan a drain route sized for continuous washing. Warewashing needs the same hot water and drain plan in Juneau, 229 miles from here, as it does here.
When a compressor quits, product loss follows within hours. Emergency refrigerated trailers, such as the 20ft Cooler Trailer, 32°F, are rented to restaurants, hotels, hospitals and institutions around Ketchikan. Cordova sits in Chugach Census Area, which has 0 federal declarations on record; a walk-in that fails there starts the same clock on the stock inside.
Customers we support in Ketchikan, AK
Expect requests in Ketchikan from jails, disaster-response teams, manufacturers and nursing homes. A detention center kitchen trailer is a typical first conversation, followed by questions about power, water and placement. Valdez (about 3,715 residents) and Seward (about 2,882 residents) each have their own mix of hospitals, schools and plants, but the reasons they rent line up.
CMS lists one hospital in Ketchikan Gateway Borough: Peacehealth Ketchikan Medical Center, a critical access hospital. Certified nursing care adds 1 home and roughly 29 beds. The National Center for Education Statistics counts 9 public schools with about 2,049 students, in districts such as Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District.
- Jail and Detention Center Kitchen Trailer Rentals: aging equipment that fails in a facility with no spare kitchen
- Disaster Response Kitchen Rentals and Emergency Food Service: cold storage for donated or purchased food when power is out
- Manufacturing Plant Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals: plant shutdowns and turnarounds that bring in extra contractors
- Nursing Home and Assisted Living Kitchen Rentals: a need for emergency cold storage when a walk-in cooler fails
Ketchikan: emergencies, projects, access and costs
What past disasters mean for kitchens in Ketchikan
OpenFEMA lists 1 disaster declaration that include Ketchikan Gateway Borough, going back to 2024. The most frequent incident types were mudslides and landslides (1 declaration). Craig has its own page, and its county, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, lists 1 federal declaration, which helps when a project spans both.
The most recent is Landslides (major disaster declaration, DR-4846), declared November 13, 2024, with the incident beginning August 25, 2024. Mudslides and landslides cut access roads and utilities, and repairs can leave nearby facilities without kitchens or cold storage.
NOAA has no storm records filed under Ketchikan Gateway Borough. The nearest county with records is Sitka City and Borough, about 203 miles away, with 7 county-based event records from 2016 to 2025, led by flood events (6). After a flood the pad matters as much as the unit: a rental kitchen needs firm, well-drained ground and a clear route in.
No wildfire of 1,000 acres or more has a mapped origin in Ketchikan Gateway Borough in NIFC's records since 2016. Smoke and power shutoffs travel farther than fires do, though: the nearest large fire on record began in Whatcom County, about 601 miles away, where the Border 2 fire burned 23,857 acres in 2026.
Declarations are federal designations for an area, not a record of damage at a particular site.
Construction projects and crew meals near Ketchikan
Since October 2021, 21 federal construction contracts of $500,000 or more have named Ketchikan Gateway Borough as the place of work. The Department of Defense committed $28 million to “Ketchikan Floating Breakwater Replacement” in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, awarded June 2025 (award record). Another public record is “Fairweather Homeport Recapitalization Ketchikan, AK,” a $25 million Department of Commerce contract from April 2021 in Ketchikan Gateway Borough (award record). In September 2026, the Department of Agriculture awarded a $3.2 million contract for “Project Name: Shelter Cover Road System & Aop Improvements” in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, with work running to October 2028 (award record). USASpending.gov shows a $1.8 million Department of Homeland Security contract, “Major MR Boathouse Base Ketchikan,” starting May 2023 in Ketchikan Gateway Borough (award record). A contract of that size means a crew that eats on site: hot food for many people on odd shifts, with water and wastewater to plan for the kitchen. A project in Wrangell, about 2,064 residents, would face the same phasing questions about gates, haul roads and pad space.
Rebuilds and remodels around Ketchikan
The Department of Homeland Security committed $36 million to “Award-Maintenance & Repair Industrial Production Facility Base Ketchikan” in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, awarded August 2026 (award record). Another public record is “Construction Services for Repair & Maintenance of Uscg Base Ketchikan Waterfront,” a $12 million Department of Homeland Security contract from June 2022 in Ketchikan Gateway Borough (award record). In March 2020, the Department of Homeland Security awarded a $3 million contract for “Repair-Replace HVAC DDC Controls Upper Base Ketchikan, AK PN 4956061” in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, with work running to March 2024 (award record). Sitka is on the same footing: the old kitchen closes on a date, and the temporary one has to be cooking before it.
Emergency equipment access around Ketchikan
Public emergency operations in Alaska are coordinated by the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHS&EM), with county emergency managers handling local response. Staging areas and access routes for disaster response are published by those agencies and can change, so this page does not draw a route. Staging and access details differ again in Juneau, in Juneau City and Borough, so check the published sources for that area before planning a route.
By CMS's hospital list, the closest to Ketchikan is Peacehealth Ketchikan Medical Center, a critical access hospital, in Ketchikan itself.
Pricing a mobile kitchen for Ketchikan
A quote for Ketchikan is built from the trailer you choose, the length of the rental, delivery distance and the setup the site needs. Starting points: the 38ft Mobile Kitchen from $7,995, the 40ft Mobile Combo Kitchen from $9,995 and the 40ft Bulk Kitchen from $10,995. Prices may vary. Cordova is quoted on the same factors, but at 623 miles away a different address can change delivery and setup terms.
Starting prices are guides, and prices may vary with location, rental length, delivery, setup and utilities. A written quote states the equipment, the rental period and what is included.
Sources: OpenFEMA (retrieved October 30, 2026); NOAA Storm Events, NIFC fire perimeters, CMS provider data, NCES school data and USASpending.gov (retrieved October 31, 2026). Public records for an area or a project, not damage reports or work we did.
About Ketchikan, AK
With about 8,033 residents (2024 estimate), Ketchikan ranks 6th among 56 covered places in Alaska. The city spans roughly 3.8 square miles in Ketchikan Gateway Borough. Ketchikan Gateway Borough covers 4,857 square miles, and Ketchikan is the only place in it covered on this site. That works out to about 2,097 residents per square mile. In a straight line, Ketchikan sits about 229 miles from Juneau, the capital of Alaska. The nearest larger place covered here is Sitka, about 190 miles away in a straight line.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer 2024 and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distances are straight-line estimates, not driving distances.
Rentals around Ketchikan
The closest covered places to Ketchikan are listed with their straight-line distance. In this part of Alaska places can be far apart, so plan travel, delivery and setup time for the real route.
- Craig, AK: about 57 miles from Ketchikan, about 1,051 residents
- Wrangell, AK: about 59 miles from Ketchikan, about 2,064 residents
- Sitka, AK: about 190 miles from Ketchikan, about 8,355 residents
- Juneau, AK: about 229 miles from Ketchikan, about 31,572 residents
- Cordova, AK: about 623 miles from Ketchikan, about 2,413 residents
- Nunapitchuk, AK: about 1,174 miles from Ketchikan, about 578 residents
Site checklist for Ketchikan
Moving the job to Anchorage or Palmer changes the pad and the paperwork; the list below stays the same.
- Contacts: name the person who will meet the delivery and the person who will approve the setup.
- Timing: share your start date and rental period so the quote reflects the real schedule.
- Food deliveries: plan where suppliers will unload so they do not block the trailer door.
The site planning guides cover each of these items in more depth.
Counties around Ketchikan
The nearest Alaska counties to Ketchikan are Wrangell City and Borough (59 miles), Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area (62 miles) and Petersburg Borough (132 miles).
- Wrangell City and Borough: about 59 miles from Ketchikan, 1 FEMA declaration since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area: about 62 miles from Ketchikan, 1 FEMA declaration since records began, 0 hospitals listed by CMS
- Petersburg Borough: about 132 miles from Ketchikan, 1 FEMA declaration since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
When the project needs more than a kitchen
For a base camp the kitchen is the center of the day. Beside mobile kitchens in Ketchikan, a job can add bunk bed sleeper trailer rentals or remote workforce housing with multi-use crew support trailers; the 20ft Contractor Accommodation Unit and the Office, Sleeper, Shower and Restroom Trailer are two examples. Rent only what the project needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who rents mobile kitchens near Ketchikan?
Commercial, institutional and public customers: jails, disaster-response teams, manufacturers and nursing homes. We do not rent to households.
Can you rent dishwashing as well as a kitchen in Ketchikan?
Yes. Dishwashing trailers range from a compact push-through low-temperature unit to 38ft conveyor trailers in low-temperature and high-temperature versions. They can be rented with a kitchen or on their own.
What should I prepare before delivery in Ketchikan?
A level pad, a clear approach for the trailer, the right electrical service, potable water, a wastewater route and a contact to meet the delivery. Our site planning guides walk through each item.
How do I get emergency refrigeration in Ketchikan?
Call the 24-hour line and describe the failure, your address and the product you need to protect. Emergency refrigerated trailers are 20ft units listed at 32°F, 15°F and -5°F and need a 220V single-phase supply rated 40 to 60A. Availability depends on the unit and your location.
Why Organizations Choose Emergency Commercial Mobile Kitchen Service
A temporary kitchen is only useful if it fits the site, the power and the menu. That is why mobile commercial kitchen rentals for Ketchikan start with questions about your operation, not just a trailer size.
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Accelerated Deployment
Gathering utility and access details up front removes the common causes of setup delays.
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24/7 Emergency Service
A broken walk-in cooler or a kitchen shutdown can happen at any hour, and so can your call.
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End-to-End Project Support
You get a single point of contact through equipment choice, setup and the rental period.
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Flexible Rental Solutions
Weekly and monthly terms let you match the rental period to the repair, project or season.
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Heavy-Duty Commercial Equipment
Trailer kitchens carry the same classes of equipment used in permanent commercial kitchens.
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Experienced Logistics Coordination
Planning the path in, the pad and the connections together avoids surprises on delivery day.
Why clients trust usWhat we can confirm
- Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for emergency and planned rental requests.
- Rentals are for commercial and industrial customers: hospitals, schools, institutions, hotels, contractors and public agencies.
- Equipment and electrical requirements are listed on each model page, so you can check them against your site.
- Delivery, setup and pickup are coordinated with your facility team, with guidance on power, water and wastewater.
Open 24/7 for emergencies
Start Your Rental Inquiry
Tell us the project location, the equipment you need, how long you need it and what is on site, and we will help match a trailer to the job. Emergencies and planned rentals both start here, or call the line any hour.
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