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What past disasters mean for kitchens in Cascade Locks

OpenFEMA lists 15 disaster declarations that include Hood River County, going back to 1964. The most frequent incident types were severe storms (6 declarations) and wildfire (4 declarations). Hood River has a page of its own with the federal declarations for its county, useful when one project crosses the line.

The most recent is Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides (major disaster declaration, DR-4907), declared April 7, 2026, with the incident beginning December 15, 2025. Severe storms interrupt power, roads and deliveries together, which is hard on any operation that serves meals on a schedule. By incident type, the count is severe storms 6, wildfire 4, flooding 4 and coastal storm 1. By decade: 1960s 1, 1970s 1, 1990s 1, 2000s 6, 2010s 4 and 2020s 2. Earlier declarations include Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Landslides, and Mudslides (DR-4768, April 13, 2024), Eagle Creek Fire (FM-5203, September 3, 2017), Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides (DR-4328, August 8, 2017), Government Flats Fire Complex (FM-5046, August 18, 2013) and Severe Winter Storm, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides (DR-4055, March 2, 2012).

NOAA has no storm records filed under Hood River County. The nearest county with records is Wasco County, about 34 miles away, with 10 county-based event records from 2016 to 2025, led by high-wind and thunderstorm events (8). Storm winds mean outages measured in days in some places, so the generator question belongs in the plan from the start.

The National Interagency Fire Center maps 2 wildfires of 1,000 acres or more that started in Hood River County since 2016, together covering about 4,554 acres. The largest was the Whisky Creek fire in 2024, at 3,240 acres. Smoke, evacuations and power shutoffs can close kitchens and spoil stock even when the flames never reach the building.

A declaration designates an area for federal assistance; it does not describe damage at any one address.

Major construction near Cascade Locks

Since October 2021, 17 federal construction contracts of $500,000 or more have named Hood River County as the place of work. In October 2025, the Department of Defense awarded a $6.6 million contract for “Bonneville Navigation Lock Upstream Stoplogs” in Hood River County, with work running to May 2028 (award record). USASpending.gov shows a $6.3 million Department of Defense contract, “Bonneville Dam Bradford Island Service Building PRQ Switchgear Upgrade,” starting March 2025 in Hood River County (award record). The Department of Defense committed $6 million to “Bonneville B-Branch Fish Ladder Erosion Repair Project” in Hood River County, awarded January 2023 (award record). Another public record is “GAOA Road 13 Reconstruction,” a $3 million Department of Agriculture contract from September 2025 in Hood River County (award record). Work like this puts crews on a site for months, often far from a restaurant, and the meals become a logistics question before the first shift starts. A project in Troutdale, about 15,749 residents, would face the same phasing questions about gates, haul roads and pad space.

Major renovation in Cascade Locks

No federal contract for repairing or modernizing a building is on record for Hood River County. The nearest is in Wasco County, about 34 miles away. The Department of the Interior committed $4.1 million to “Maupin Work Site Renovation” in Wasco County, awarded September 2021 (award record). Work inside an occupied facility tends to take its kitchen offline for weeks, so the plan for meals has to exist before the work starts. Whoever remodels in Sandy starts from the same two questions: when does the kitchen close, and what feeds people until it reopens?

Getting emergency equipment into Cascade Locks

Public emergency operations in Oregon are coordinated by the Oregon Department of Emergency Management (OEM), with county emergency managers handling local response. Staging areas and access routes for disaster response are published by those agencies and can change, so this page does not draw a route. Staging and access details differ again in Wood Village, in Multnomah County, so check the published sources for that area before planning a route.

By CMS's hospital list, the closest to Cascade Locks is Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital, a critical access hospital, in Hood River, about 17 miles from Cascade Locks in a straight line.

Pricing a mobile kitchen for Cascade Locks

There is no single price for every job in Cascade Locks. Equipment, rental term, delivery and site conditions all change it. As a guide, prices start at the 24ft Mobile Kitchen from $4,995, the 40ft Mobile Combo Kitchen from $9,995 and the 28ft Mobile Kitchen from $6,995, and they may vary. A kitchen for Fairview, 29 miles from here, is built from the same quote, with delivery adjusted for the address.

Starting prices are guides, and prices may vary with location, rental length, delivery, setup and utilities. A written quote states the equipment, the rental period and what is included.