Cottonwood, ID Emergency Mobile Kitchen Rentals and Dishwashing Trailers

Temporary modular kitchens are how Cottonwood 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. If the work spills into Grangeville, 14 miles from here, or into Kamiah, 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 38ft Mobile Kitchen, 24ft Mobile Kitchen and 28ft Mobile Kitchen are the models to compare first, each with its listed equipment and electrical requirements.

Expect requests in Cottonwood from nursing homes, disaster-response teams, manufacturers and municipal agencies. A nursing home kitchen rental is a typical first conversation, followed by questions about power, water and placement. Genesee (about 1,103 residents) and Moscow (about 26,894 residents) each have their own mix of hospitals, schools and plants, but the reasons they rent line up.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services counts 2 hospitals in Idaho County, all critical access: ST Mary'S Hospital and Syringa General Hospital. Certified nursing care adds 1 home and roughly 60 beds. Public schools here number 9, enrolling about 1,718 students, with Mountain View School District, Cottonwood Joint District and Salmon River Joint School District among the larger districts (NCES).

• Nursing Home and Assisted Living Kitchen Rentals: a need for emergency cold storage when a walk-in cooler fails
• Disaster Response Kitchen Rentals and Emergency Food Service: cold storage for donated or purchased food when power is out
• Manufacturing Plant Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals: three-phase power at the plant matched to the equipment
• Municipal and Public Institution Kitchen Trailer Rentals: senior-nutrition and community meal programs that cannot pause

With about 921 residents (2024 estimate), Cottonwood ranks 93rd among 128 covered places in Idaho. The city spans roughly 0.8 square miles in Idaho County. Idaho County covers 8,477 square miles and has 4 places on this site, about 6,267 residents between them; the largest is Grangeville. That works out to about 1,098 residents per square mile. Boise City, the Idaho capital, is about 170 miles away in a straight line, which matters for state-level emergency coordination. Grangeville is the closest larger covered place, roughly 14 straight-line miles from Cottonwood.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer 2024 and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distances are straight-line estimates, not driving distances.

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.

A kitchen is only half of food service. A dishwashing trailer such as the 38ft Low-Temp Conveyor Dishwashing Trailer (220V, single phase, 220A) handles trays, plates and pans so Cottonwood kitchens do not fall back on disposables. Lapwai, 33 miles away, has the same problem when the dish room closes before the cooking line does.

A failed walk-in freezer is a race against thawing. Call the 24-hour line for an emergency refrigerated trailer; the 20ft Cooler Trailer, 32°F lists 220V, single phase, 40 to 60A and a standard receptacle. Lewiston sits in Nez Perce County, which has 13 federal declarations on record; a walk-in that fails there starts the same clock on the stock inside.

A typical January night in Idaho County drops to 18°F, a typical July afternoon reaches 79°F, and the county gets about 37 inches of precipitation in a year (NOAA, 1991 to 2020). July highs run about 4 degrees cooler than the average Idaho county. Hard freezes are routine, so the water hookup is planned with heat tape or an insulated hose, and wastewater lines are kept from freezing between uses.

The checklist does not change for McCall or St. Maries, but the pad, the power and the permit usually do.

• People: decide who meets the driver, who signs off the setup and who calls us if something changes.
• Approvals: the local health authority for Idaho County decides what review a temporary kitchen needs, so ask first.
• Pad and access: a level area, a clear approach for the trailer length and room for food deliveries.

See the site planning guides for power, water, wastewater and placement detail.

Facilities near Cottonwood often compare notes with neighbors. These places are close enough to plan together, measured in straight-line miles from Cottonwood, not driving distance.

• Grangeville, ID: about 14 miles from Cottonwood, about 3,627 residents
• Kamiah, ID: about 20 miles from Cottonwood, about 1,163 residents
• Orofino, ID: about 30 miles from Cottonwood, about 3,285 residents
• Lapwai, ID: about 33 miles from Cottonwood, about 1,249 residents
• Lewiston, ID: about 39 miles from Cottonwood, about 34,693 residents
• Genesee, ID: about 44 miles from Cottonwood, about 1,103 residents

The nearest Idaho counties to Cottonwood are Lewis County (13 miles), Nez Perce County (28 miles) and Clearwater County (54 miles).

• Lewis County: about 13 miles from Cottonwood, 10 FEMA declarations since records began, 0 hospitals listed by CMS
• Nez Perce County: about 28 miles from Cottonwood, 13 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Clearwater County: about 54 miles from Cottonwood, 13 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS

For a base camp the kitchen is the center of the day. Beside mobile kitchens in Cottonwood, a job can add bunk bed sleeper trailer rentals or laundry trailer rentals; the 20ft Contractor Accommodation Unit and the 24ft Laundry Trailer are two examples. Rent only what the project needs.