En masse evacuations in the last ten years

• 1999 – The Kosovo War led to 800,000 refugees, not all of them urban residents, leaving Kosovo and being accommodated for up to three months in other parts of Europe.
• September 1999 – The size of Hurricane Floyd, its intensity, and its track prompted public officials to launch one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history with an estimated 3 million people fleeing the storm.^[6]

• April 2001 – 77,000 inhabitants (around 2/3 of the population) of Vicenza, Italy were evacuated for several hours so that an unexploded bomb, originally dropped in World War II, could be safely disarmed.^[7]
• January 2002 – 300,000 residents of the city of Goma, Democratic Republic of the CongoMount Nyiragongo.^[8] were evacuated in three days due to the eruption of a nearby volcano.
  
• August 2002 – The 2002 European floods led to the evacuation of 50,000 residents of Prague, Czech Republic, on 13 August, with a total of 200,000 Czechs during the second week of August.^[9] Elsewhere in Europe more than 120,000 people were evacuated in the German city of Dresden, 36,000 in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, and 1,500 in Hungary.^[10]
• July 2005 – 20,000 people were evacuated from the city of Birmingham in the United Kingdom after a security alert due to a bomb scare.^[11]
• August 2005 – Hurricane Katrina led to a mass evacuation of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States, with approximately 80% of the city's population of 484,000 evacuating before the storm struck.
• September 22, 2005 – Texas Department of Transportation says 2.4 million evacuated from Houston, Texas for Hurricane Rita.
• October 2007 – More than 1.4 million people were evacuated in the Chinese provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian in anticipation of Typhoon Krosa.^[12]
• October 2007 – California wildfires forced more than 800,000 people in Southern California to evacuate, making it the largest evacuation in California history^[13] and the largest evacuation for fire in United States history.[1]
• May 2008 – 2008 Sichuan earthquake: Approximately 200,000 people are evacuated in Beichuan County, China because of flooding fears after a landslide created dam became unstable.^[14]
• August 2008 – At least 1.9 million people evacuate coastal Louisiana, including New Orleans, for Hurricane Gustav.^[15] In western Cuba at least 300,000 people were evacuated for Hurricane Gustav.^[16]