Modoc County, CA Emergency Mobile Kitchen and Dishwashing Rentals

A mobile kitchen trailer rental in Modoc County puts a complete commercial cooking line beside the building that needs it, so a closed kitchen does not have to mean closed meal service. If the work spills into Alturas or Alturas, a kitchen rented here can be planned around both sites.

Match the trailer to the menu: the 24ft Mobile Kitchen for a focused cooking line, the 28ft Mobile Kitchen for more production room, and the 38ft Mobile Kitchen where bulk cooking or a walk-in cooler matters. Power requirements are shown on every page.

Before delivery, confirm the pad, the electrical service, potable water and a wastewater route. Modoc County environmental health or the local health authority usually reviews a temporary kitchen, and their requirements vary, so involve them early. Mobile kitchens can be rented for one week or on monthly terms, including long-term leases for work that runs through a full construction season. Check the authority that covers the site itself; what cleared in Alturas is no guarantee for Alturas.

Dishwashing trailers cover the other half of the line for Modoc County facilities: low-temperature and high-temperature machines, push-through and conveyor styles, in several lengths. Start with the 22 to 26ft Low-Temp Dishwashing Trailer. Warewashing needs the same hot water and drain plan in Alturas as it does here.

Emergency refrigeration for Modoc County means cold storage that arrives as a trailer. The 20ft LT Refrigerated Trailer is one of three 20ft temperature configurations, subject to availability for your location. A call about emergency refrigeration from Alturas starts with the same three questions: what failed, what is inside and where the trailer can sit.

NOAA's 1991 to 2020 county normals put the average January low in Modoc County at 23°F and the average July high at 85°F, with about 18 inches of precipitation a year. January lows run about 13 degrees colder than the average California county. A mixed climate means a kitchen trailer sees freezing mornings and hot afternoons in the same year, and the setup allows for both.

Modoc County has one place on this site. Each has its own page with local context.

• Alturas: about 2,652 residents (2024 estimate)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer 2024 and Vintage 2024 population estimates.

FEMA's records list these recent declarations for Modoc County. They show the type of event that has interrupted normal operations in the county, not damage at a specific business.

• DR-4699, major disaster declaration: Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides, declared April 3, 2023
• DR-4431, major disaster declaration: Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides, declared May 1, 2019
• DR-4308, major disaster declaration: Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides, declared April 1, 2017
• DR-4305, major disaster declaration: Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides, declared March 16, 2017
• FM-5070, fire management assistance declaration: Day Fire, declared August 3, 2014
• EM-3248, emergency declaration: Hurricane Katrina Evacuation, declared September 13, 2005
• DR-1155, major disaster declaration: Severe Storms, Flooding, Mud and Landslides, declared January 4, 1997
• DR-1046, major disaster declaration: Severe Winter Storms, Flooding Landslides, Mud Flow, declared March 12, 1995

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 a mobile kitchen near Modoc County? Mostly manufacturers, construction crews, jails and nursing homes, along with contractors and public agencies. The need is usually the same: a working kitchen while the permanent one is unavailable. Care homes in Alturas and school kitchens in Alturas, places of about 2,652 residents and about 2,652 residents, lose their lines for different reasons, but the rental that answers them is the same.

CMS lists 2 hospitals in Modoc County, all critical access: Modoc Medical Center and Surprise Valley Community Hospital. The county also has 2 nursing homes certified by Medicare or Medicaid, with about 106 beds. The National Center for Education Statistics counts 10 public schools with about 898 students, in districts such as Modoc Joint Unified and Surprise Valley Joint Unified.

• Manufacturing Plant Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals: plant shutdowns and turnarounds that bring in extra contractors
• Construction Site Mobile Kitchen Rentals for Crews: remote sites with no restaurants within reasonable distance
• Jail and Detention Center Kitchen Trailer Rentals: aging equipment that fails in a facility with no spare kitchen
• Nursing Home and Assisted Living Kitchen Rentals: equipment failure in an older kitchen that cannot be repaired quickly

Crews and facilities working in Modoc County often look at the counties around it too. The nearest ones are below, with the state and index pages.

• Lassen County: about 61 miles from Modoc County, 17 FEMA declarations, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Shasta County: about 90 miles from Modoc County, 39 FEMA declarations, 4 hospitals listed by CMS
• Siskiyou County: about 94 miles from Modoc County, 21 FEMA declarations, 2 hospitals listed by CMS
• Plumas County: about 111 miles from Modoc County, 21 FEMA declarations, 3 hospitals listed by CMS
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For a base camp the kitchen is the center of the day. Beside mobile kitchens in Modoc County, a job can add remote workforce housing with multi-use crew support trailers or laundry trailer rentals; the Office, Sleeper, Shower and Restroom Trailer and the 24ft Laundry Trailer are two examples. Rent only what the project needs.