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Evacuation and displacement

Wildfires can force people to leave their homes with little notice, leading to both short-term evacuations and longer-term displacement.

Beyond the immediate challenges of moving people to safety, affected communities may face prolonged disruption, loss of housing, impacts on livelihoods and difficulties returning or rebuilding. Planning, timely warnings and clear communication are essential to ensure evacuations reach and support everyone, particularly those most at risk. Explore the latest research, insights and resources on wildfire evacuation and how communities can strengthen preparedness and response.

Explore the latest research, insights and resources on wildfire-related evacuation and displacement, and the measures needed to support safe, inclusive and resilient recovery.

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Research briefs
Australia: Impacts of conflicting cues in emergency warnings

New Australian research confirms a long-held suspicion that emergency warnings do not always have precedence when other sources conflict with official advice.

Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre
Update
USA: Paradise fire killed the most vulnerable residents

Experts say the incineration of Paradise during the 2018 California fires largely affected seniors. With poverty and disabilities also compounding many elders' vulnerability, advocates say that officials must expand emergency preparedness to address issues that affect seniors, including social isolation and community financial constraints.

Los Angeles Times
Documents and publications
WMO provisional statement on the state of the global climate in 2018

This provisional Statement on the State of the Global Climate provides an assessment of the state of the global climate during the period January-September of the year in question.  

For more than 20 years, these reports have been published in the six

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Update
Why do some people not follow mandatory wildfire evacuation orders?

When faced with a wildfire threat, a lack of preparedness to defend one's home and a delay in evacuating can increase risk to both public safety and property.

The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
Update
Australia: Bushfire ready, thanks to artificial intelligence

During the chaos of a bushfire, people can be unpredictable. But a new artificial intelligence program developed by RMIT is helping communities plan for big evacuations. The software uses a simulation to model all the individuals and their decision making.

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
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Documents and publications
Evacuation planning of critical infrastructures in case of an earthquake or a fire for people with disabilities

The volume examines key aspects relevant to evacuation of people with disabilities in emergency situations.

Council of Europe (COE)
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