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Pima, AZ Temporary Commercial Kitchen Rental and Lease Options
For Pima, AZ, we rent mobile commercial kitchens, backed by dishwashing trailers and emergency refrigeration for when a walk-in cooler or freezer breaks down. Emergency meal service for breakdowns, fires and floods is available alongside planned renovation and construction rentals. Short-term, monthly and long-term rental terms are matched to the repair or the project. Municipal agencies, jails and disaster-response teams are among the customers we rent to. Our team coordinates delivery, placement and setup with your site contacts. Call or send a request to check availability in Pima or Thatcher.
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The trailer- Population (2024 est.)
- 3,148
- County
- Graham County
- Land area
- 7.3 sq mi
- FEMA declarations (county)
- 11
Commercial kitchen trailers for Pima
A short-term kitchen rental after a failure and a long-term kitchen lease during a rebuild start the same way: a mobile kitchen for Pima is matched to the menu, the crew and the power available. If the work spills into Thatcher, 7 miles from here, or into Safford, a kitchen rented here can be planned around both sites.
Kitchens in the fleet run from the 24ft Mobile Kitchen up to the 40ft Bulk Combo Kitchen. For a site like this one, the 28ft Mobile Kitchen, 38ft Mobile Kitchen and 24ft Mobile Kitchen are the models to compare first, each with its listed equipment and electrical requirements.
Supporting rentals: warewashing and refrigeration in Pima
If the dish room is closed too, add a warewashing trailer. The 30ft High-Temp Conveyor Dishwashing Trailer needs 220V, 3 phase, 200A; plan a drain route sized for continuous washing. Willcox, 44 miles away, has the same problem when the dish room closes before the cooking line does.
Emergency refrigeration for Pima means cold storage that arrives as a trailer. The 20ft Cooler Trailer, 32°F is one of three 20ft temperature configurations, subject to availability for your location. In Mammoth, where Pinal County has 21 federal declarations on record, the call for emergency refrigeration begins the same way.
Climate normals for Graham County run from an average January low of 32°F to an average July high of 93°F, with roughly 15 inches of precipitation yearly. July highs run about 3 degrees cooler than the average Arizona county. A mixed climate means a kitchen trailer sees freezing mornings and hot afternoons in the same year, and the setup allows for both.
Local conditions and rental planning in Pima
Emergencies that shaped recovery needs near Pima
OpenFEMA lists 11 disaster declarations that include Graham County, going back to 1966. The most frequent incident types were flooding (7 declarations) and severe storms (2 declarations). If you plan across towns, check the page for Thatcher as well; its own declaration history is listed there.
The most recent is Severe Storms and Flooding (major disaster declaration, DR-1660), declared September 7, 2006, with the incident beginning July 25, 2006. Storm damage and long power outages can shut kitchens and warm the contents of walk-in coolers within hours. By incident type, the count is flooding 7, severe storms 2, hurricane 1 and drought 1. By decade: 1960s 1, 1970s 4, 1980s 1, 1990s 2 and 2000s 3. Earlier declarations include Hurricane Katrina Evacuation (EM-3241, September 12, 2005), Severe Storms and Flooding (DR-1586, April 14, 2005), Severe Storms, Tornadoes & Flooding (DR-977, January 19, 1993), Severe Storms & Flooding (DR-884, December 6, 1990) and Severe Storms & Flooding (DR-691, October 5, 1983).
Between 2016 and 2025 the Storm Events Database recorded 65 county-based event records in Graham County, with high-wind and thunderstorm events the most common at 40. NOAA's largest reported property loss there is $500,000, from a thunderstorm wind in September 2021. Wind events bring down lines and trees, and a kitchen that loses power cannot keep stock cold for more than a few hours.
The National Interagency Fire Center maps 13 wildfires of 1,000 acres or more that started in Graham County since 2016, together covering about 94,775 acres. The largest was the Pinnacle fire in 2021, at 34,438 acres. A fire that never touches a kitchen can still close it: evacuation orders, smoke and utility shutoffs come first.
FEMA declarations apply to designated areas and do not say which individual buildings were affected.
Construction projects and crew meals near Pima
Since October 2021, 7 federal construction contracts of $500,000 or more have named Graham County as the place of work. Another public record is “GAOA Hot Well Dunes Campgrnd Imprvmnts,” a $4.2 million Department of the Interior contract from January 2026 in Graham County (award record). In September 2024, the Department of the Interior awarded a $3.2 million contract for “GAOA Haekel Road Repaving” in Graham County, with work running to October 2025 (award record). USASpending.gov shows a $2.1 million Department of the Interior contract, “GAOA Gila Box Campground Improvements,” starting August 2024 in Graham County (award record). The Department of the Interior committed $1.4 million to “Haekel Road Double Chip Seal” in Graham County, awarded April 2022 (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 Safford, about 10,257 residents, would face the same phasing questions about gates, haul roads and pad space.
Major renovation in Pima
No federal contract for repairing or modernizing a building is on record for Graham County. The nearest is in Cochise County, about 76 miles away. USASpending.gov shows a $7.7 million Department of Homeland Security contract, “Border Barrier Repair,” starting December 2020 in Cochise County (award record). Renovations like this are the usual reason an institution leases a mobile kitchen, because the permanent one cannot run while the work is under way. The closure date drives the plan in Clifton too.
Emergency access and staging near Pima
In Arizona, the Arizona Division of Emergency Management (ADEM) works with counties on emergency operations. Official staging areas and the roads that connect them to local emergency-management hubs are published by those agencies and should be checked there. Staging and access details differ again in Willcox, in Cochise County, so check the published sources for that area before planning a route.
MT. Graham Regional Medical Center, a critical access hospital is the nearest hospital CMS lists, in Safford, about 9 miles from Pima in a straight line.
Local rental costs in Pima
Price depends on the model, the rental period, delivery and setup requirements and the utilities on site. Starting prices for kitchens near Pima include the 28ft Mobile Kitchen from $6,995, the 40ft Mobile Kitchen from $9,995 and the 24ft Mobile Kitchen from $4,995, and prices may vary. See the equipment pages for dishwashing and refrigeration. A kitchen for Mammoth, 53 miles from here, is built from the same quote, with delivery adjusted for the address.
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, NOAA nClimDiv normals, 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.
Who rents kitchen trailers in Pima
Rental customers in Pima are commercial, institutional and public: municipal agencies, jails, disaster-response teams and school districts. Each has its own pressure points, from a municipal temporary kitchen during a remodel to keeping staff fed through a long project. Globe (about 7,176 residents) and Kearny (about 1,898 residents) each have their own mix of hospitals, schools and plants, but the reasons they rent line up.
CMS lists one hospital in Graham County: MT. Graham Regional Medical Center, a critical access hospital. The county also has 1 nursing home certified by Medicare or Medicaid, with about 106 beds. Public schools here number 31, enrolling about 6,984 students, with Safford Unified District (4218), Thatcher Unified District (4219) and Pima Unified District (4220) among the larger districts (NCES).
- Municipal and Public Institution Kitchen Trailer Rentals: public buildings under renovation
- 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: dishwashing capacity where utilities are limited
- School Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals During Renovation: equipment failures that close a single school's kitchen mid-year
Pima at a glance
Census estimates put Pima at 3,148 people in 2024, 73rd of 89 Arizona places covered here. The town spans roughly 7.3 square miles in Graham County. Across Graham County's 4,622 square miles, 3 places are covered here, together about 19,032 residents, with Safford the largest. Population density is roughly 431 people per square mile. In a straight line, Pima sits about 138 miles from Phoenix, the capital of Arizona. Thatcher is the closest larger covered place, roughly 7 straight-line miles from Pima.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer 2024 and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distances are straight-line estimates, not driving distances.
Site checklist for Pima
Sites in Miami, 69 miles away, and Benson use the same checklist; only the pad and the paperwork change.
- Water: arrange a potable water supply and a hookup point within reach of the trailer.
- Wastewater: plan sewer access, a holding tank or pump-out service, depending on the site in Pima.
- Power: check the panel and service against the trailer's listed requirement before anything is scheduled.
See the site planning guides for power, water, wastewater and placement detail.
Other places near Pima we rent to
Crews and facilities working around Pima also look at the nearby places below. Distances are straight-line estimates between the places, not driving routes.
- Thatcher, AZ: about 7 miles from Pima, about 5,627 residents
- Safford, AZ: about 9 miles from Pima, about 10,257 residents
- Clifton, AZ: about 34 miles from Pima, about 3,815 residents
- Willcox, AZ: about 44 miles from Pima, about 3,217 residents
- Mammoth, AZ: about 53 miles from Pima, about 1,181 residents
- Globe, AZ: about 62 miles from Pima, about 7,176 residents
Neighboring counties near Pima
The nearest Arizona counties to Pima are Greenlee County (42 miles), Cochise County (73 miles) and Gila County (83 miles).
- Greenlee County: about 42 miles from Pima, 11 FEMA declarations since records began, 0 hospitals listed by CMS
- Cochise County: about 73 miles from Pima, 12 FEMA declarations since records began, 4 hospitals listed by CMS
- Gila County: about 83 miles from Pima, 21 FEMA declarations since records began, 3 hospitals listed by CMS
When the project needs more than a kitchen
Mobile kitchens in Pima come first, and the rest follows from the site. Where crews live and work on site, bunk bed sleeper trailer rentals (for example the 20ft Contractor Accommodation Unit) and restroom trailer rentals (the Standalone Restroom Trailer) can sit beside the kitchen. We confirm the exact unit and price in a written quote.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who rents mobile kitchens near Pima?
Commercial, institutional and public customers: municipal agencies, jails, disaster-response teams and school districts. We do not rent to households.
Can you rent dishwashing as well as a kitchen in Pima?
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 power does a kitchen trailer need in Pima?
Kitchen trailers on our list run on 220V single phase, from 200A on the 24ft and 28ft models to 200 to 220A on the larger ones. Dishwashing trailers range from 150A to 300A depending on the model, and the 30ft conveyor unit is listed on three-phase power. Check the model page before you confirm the site.
What should I prepare before delivery in Pima?
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.
Why Organizations Choose Emergency Commercial Mobile Kitchen Service
Facilities around Pima rely on mobile commercial kitchen rentals when renovation, construction or equipment failure interrupts normal operations. Reliable equipment and clear coordination are what make that stop-gap work.
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Accelerated Deployment
A clear site checklist means mobile commercial kitchen rentals are ready to cook, wash or chill sooner once they are placed.
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24/7 Emergency Service
Emergency calls are taken around the clock, so a failure at midnight is not left until morning.
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End-to-End Project Support
From the first quote to placement, utility hookup guidance and pickup, one team stays on your project.
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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
Commercial-grade cooking, warewashing and cold storage equipment stands up to long service days.
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Experienced Logistics Coordination
Delivery routing, placement and pickup are coordinated with your facility contacts.
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.
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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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