Butte County, ID Emergency Mobile Kitchen and Dishwashing Rentals

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

• Arco: about 911 residents (2024 estimate)

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

Emergency food service in Butte County often starts with one question: where will the next meal be cooked? A commercial kitchen trailer on a level pad gives the answer while the permanent kitchen is out of action. If the work spills into Arco or Arco, a kitchen rented here can be planned around both sites.

Common choices include the 28ft Mobile Kitchen (220V, single phase, 200A), the 24ft Mobile Kitchen (220V, single phase, 200A) and the 38ft Mobile Kitchen (220V, single phase, 200 to 220A). Each model page lists the equipment and the electrical service.

A kitchen trailer needs a level area, a path for delivery, the right electrical service and water and wastewater connections. Health and permit steps differ by jurisdiction, so check with Butte County before you schedule the opening day. Short-term rentals cover outages and events; long-term leasing suits renovations and projects that run for many months. Health rules are set locally, so a kitchen in Arco or Arco may face different steps than one here.

If the dish room is closed too, add a warewashing trailer. The 22 to 26ft Low-Temp Dishwashing Trailer needs 220V, single phase, 150A; plan a drain route sized for continuous washing. Kitchens in Arco hit the same wall when the dish room closes before the cooking line does.

When a compressor quits, product loss follows within hours. Emergency refrigerated trailers, such as the 20ft LT Refrigerated Trailer, are rented to restaurants, hotels, hospitals and institutions around Butte County. A walk-in that fails in Arco starts the same clock on the stock inside.

NOAA's 1991 to 2020 county normals put the average January low in Butte County at 9°F and the average July high at 83°F, with about 13 inches of precipitation a year. January lows run about 9 degrees colder than the average Idaho county. With nights that cold, a kitchen trailer needs heated or insulated water lines, and a refrigerated trailer should not be asked to hold product warm against freezing air.

Kitchen requests in Butte County tend to fall into a few groups: construction crews, disaster-response teams, nursing homes and manufacturers. Our industry pages explain what each group usually needs and how a rental is planned around it. Care homes in Arco and school kitchens in Arco, places of about 911 residents and about 911 residents, lose their lines for different reasons, but the rental that answers them is the same.

CMS lists one hospital in Butte County: Lost Rivers Medical Center, a critical access hospital. Public schools here number 3, enrolling about 390 students, with Butte County Joint District among the larger districts (NCES).

• Construction Site Mobile Kitchen Rentals for Crews: remote sites with no restaurants within reasonable distance
• Disaster Response Kitchen Rentals and Emergency Food Service: cold storage for donated or purchased food when power is out
• Nursing Home and Assisted Living Kitchen Rentals: equipment failure in an older kitchen that cannot be repaired quickly
• Manufacturing Plant Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals: three-phase power at the plant matched to the equipment

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.

The most recent declarations that include Butte County, newest first. Each is a federal designation for the county, listed with its FEMA number and declaration date.

• EM-3244, emergency declaration: Hurricane Katrina, declared September 13, 2005
• DR-1177, major disaster declaration: Severe Storms, Snowmelt, Land/Mud Slides, Flooding, declared June 13, 1997
• DR-694, major disaster declaration: Earthquake, declared November 18, 1983
• DR-186, major disaster declaration: Heavy Rains & Flooding, declared December 31, 1964

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

• Jefferson County: about 44 miles from Butte County, 4 FEMA declarations, 0 hospitals listed by CMS
• Blaine County: about 44 miles from Butte County, 8 FEMA declarations, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Bingham County: about 51 miles from Butte County, 5 FEMA declarations, 3 hospitals listed by CMS
• Clark County: about 58 miles from Butte County, 2 FEMA declarations, 0 hospitals listed by CMS
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Mobile kitchens in Butte County 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.