Broadwater County, MT Temporary Kitchen Rental and Lease Options

When a permanent kitchen in Broadwater County is closed for renovation, repairs or an equipment failure, a rented mobile commercial kitchen lets meal service continue from a trailer parked on site. Crews working in Townsend and Townsend often share a kitchen plan, so one rental can serve more than one site.

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.

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 Broadwater 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. Check the authority that covers the site itself; what cleared in Townsend is no guarantee for Townsend.

Pages exist for a place in Broadwater County.

• Townsend: about 2,209 residents (2024 estimate)

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

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 Broadwater County kitchens do not fall back on disposables. Kitchens in Townsend hit the same wall when the dish room closes before the cooking line does.

Cooler or freezer down? Emergency refrigeration rental for Broadwater County is available on a short-term basis: ask for the 20ft MT Refrigerated Trailer or a different temperature setting when you call. A call about emergency refrigeration from Townsend starts with the same three questions: what failed, what is inside and where the trailer can sit.

Climate normals for Broadwater County run from an average January low of 15°F to an average July high of 81°F, with roughly 15 inches of precipitation yearly. January lows run about 3 degrees warmer than the average Montana 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.

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

• DR-4902, major disaster declaration: Severe Winter Storm and Straight-Line Winds, declared April 7, 2026
• FM-5507, fire management assistance declaration: Horse Gulch Fire, declared July 12, 2024
• DR-4172, major disaster declaration: Ice Jams and Flooding, declared April 17, 2014
• DR-1996, major disaster declaration: Severe Storms and Flooding, declared June 17, 2011
• EM-3253, emergency declaration: Hurricane Katrina Evacuation, declared September 13, 2005
• DR-1340, major disaster declaration: Wildfires, declared August 30, 2000
• FM-2314, fire management assistance declaration: Mt - Central Zone 3B Fire Complex, declared July 24, 2000
• DR-1183, major disaster declaration: Severe Storms,Ice Jams, Snow Melt, Flooding, declared July 25, 1997

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

• Jefferson County: about 30 miles from Broadwater County, 9 FEMA declarations, 0 hospitals listed by CMS
• Meagher County: about 33 miles from Broadwater County, 8 FEMA declarations, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Gallatin County: about 58 miles from Broadwater County, 7 FEMA declarations, 2 hospitals listed by CMS
• Silver Bow County: about 63 miles from Broadwater County, 5 FEMA declarations, 1 hospital listed by CMS
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Kitchen requests in Broadwater County tend to fall into a few groups: municipal agencies, school districts, disaster-response teams and manufacturers. Our industry pages explain what each group usually needs and how a rental is planned around it. Townsend (about 2,209 residents) and Townsend (about 2,209 residents) each have their own mix of hospitals, schools and plants, but the reasons they rent line up.

CMS lists one hospital in Broadwater County: Billings Clinic Broadwater, a critical access hospital. Public schools here number 3, enrolling about 700 students, with Townsend K-12 Schools among the larger districts (NCES).

• Municipal and Public Institution Kitchen Trailer Rentals: emergency operations centers that need to feed responders
• School Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals During Renovation: summer cafeteria renovations that run late
• Disaster Response Kitchen Rentals and Emergency Food Service: dishwashing capacity where utilities are limited
• Manufacturing Plant Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals: three-phase power at the plant matched to the equipment

Plan the kitchen first; everything else is sized around mobile kitchens in Broadwater County. Crews on a long or remote job can add remote workforce housing with multi-use crew support trailers, such as the Office, Sleeper, Shower and Restroom Trailer, or bunk bed sleeper trailer rentals, such as the 20ft Contractor Accommodation Unit. Each model page lists its equipment and power, and we quote them on request.