This thread deserves a bump. Excellent advice above!

Last week, a colleague had to bug out from his acreage due to a fast moving wildfire (foothills terrain / boreal forest). He's no fool, so he was packed and rolling out hours before the evacuation order officially came down.

What he noticed was that once the main highway was blocked, people were following a westward gravel side road with their trucks and big 5th wheel campers. The road was blocked up pretty fast. Big campers do not move fast on rough roads. To my mind, that situation was a trap if the fire shifted.

He got out of there and headed north on a secondary highway (which was closed 2 hours later due to yet another fire). Good call.

This makes me question (again) the wisdom of campers as bug out vehicles.