The fires forced approximately 1,000,000 people to evacuate their homes, the largest evacuation in California's history.

At the time, this was the largest evacuation in Gulf Coast history.

Many of the largest evacuations have been in the face of war-time military attacks.

The hurricane also resulted in the largest evacuation of Texans in that state's history.

This was the largest urban evacuation in the history of the United States.

About 500,000 people have to leave, the largest evacuation in the area's history.

Due to large evacuations in the state, construction projects on Interstates 75, 85, and 185, were postponed.

Hurricane Juan (1985) prompted a large evacuation from the city, but did little damage.

The largest evacuation from Pranjani began at 3 am on 10 August.

"This was, as best we can tell, probably the largest evacuation in American history," he said.