Carbon County, MT Emergency Mobile Kitchen and Dishwashing Rentals

Carbon County has 3 places on this site. Each has its own page with local context.

• Red Lodge: about 2,686 residents (2024 estimate)
• Bridger: about 716 residents (2024 estimate)
• Joliet: about 620 residents (2024 estimate)

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

Operations around Carbon County that cannot pause food service can lease a mobile commercial kitchen for a week, a month or the length of a long renovation. Crews working in Red Lodge and Bridger often share a kitchen plan, so one rental can serve more than one site.

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

Plan the connections together: 220V power, potable water in, wastewater out and a safe route for food deliveries. The local authority in Carbon County decides which approvals a temporary kitchen needs. 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 Joliet is no guarantee for Red Lodge.

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. Kitchens in Red Lodge 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 Carbon County. A walk-in that fails in Bridger starts the same clock on the stock inside.

Climate normals for Carbon County run from an average January low of 15°F to an average July high of 80°F, with roughly 18 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.

Expect requests in Carbon County from manufacturers, nursing homes, disaster-response teams and municipal agencies. A industrial facility temporary kitchen is a typical first conversation, followed by questions about power, water and placement. Care homes in Joliet and school kitchens in Red Lodge, places of about 620 residents and about 2,686 residents, lose their lines for different reasons, but the rental that answers them is the same.

CMS lists one hospital in Carbon County: Beartooth Billings Clinic, a critical access hospital. The National Center for Education Statistics counts 19 public schools with about 1,354 students, in districts such as Red Lodge Elem, Joliet Elem and Bridger K-12 Schools.

• Manufacturing Plant Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals: three-phase power at the plant matched to the equipment
• Nursing Home and Assisted Living Kitchen Rentals: kitchen upgrades or code corrections that take the line out of service
• Disaster Response Kitchen Rentals and Emergency Food Service: feeding responders, crews and displaced staff after an incident
• Municipal and Public Institution Kitchen Trailer Rentals: emergency operations centers that need to feed responders

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.

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

• DR-4902, major disaster declaration: Severe Winter Storm and Straight-Line Winds, declared April 7, 2026
• DR-4745, major disaster declaration: Flooding, declared October 11, 2023
• DR-4655, major disaster declaration: Severe Storm and Flooding, declared June 16, 2022
• FM-5392, fire management assistance declaration: Robertson Draw Fire, declared June 16, 2021
• DR-4405, major disaster declaration: Flooding, declared October 31, 2018
• 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

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

• Stillwater County: about 35 miles from Carbon County, 14 FEMA declarations, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Sweet Grass County: about 60 miles from Carbon County, 8 FEMA declarations, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Yellowstone County: about 61 miles from Carbon County, 12 FEMA declarations, 2 hospitals listed by CMS
• Big Horn County: about 74 miles from Carbon County, 7 FEMA declarations, 2 hospitals listed by CMS
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Plan the kitchen first; everything else is sized around mobile kitchens in Carbon County. Crews on a long or remote job can add bunk bed sleeper trailer rentals, such as the 20ft Contractor Accommodation Unit, or laundry trailer rentals, such as the 24ft Laundry Trailer. Each model page lists its equipment and power, and we quote them on request.