--- title: Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort Evacuated Before Irma Hits description: Trump's seaside resort Mar-a-Lago and the surrounding barrier islands have been ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Irma approaches Florida. canonical: https://time.com/4933251/mar-a-lago-evacuated-hurricane-irma/ author: Rachel Lewis article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-08T13:08:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:20:28.423Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort Evacuated Before Irma Hits og:description: Trump's seaside resort Mar-a-Lago and the surrounding barrier islands have been ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Irma approaches Florida. og:url: https://time.com/4933251/mar-a-lago-evacuated-hurricane-irma/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3662bc7d5a86b739/6988dcf9cf40a8005bc494cf/mar-a-lago-evacuated-hurricane-irma.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Chinese President Xi Jinping Arrives To West Palm Beach For Visit With President Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort Evacuated Before Irma Hits twitter:description: Trump's seaside resort Mar-a-Lago and the surrounding barrier islands have been ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Irma approaches Florida. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3662bc7d5a86b739/6988dcf9cf40a8005bc494cf/mar-a-lago-evacuated-hurricane-irma.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort Ordered to Evacuate Ahead of Hurricane Irma by [Rachel Lewis](https://time.com/author/rachel-lewis/) ## Rachel Lewis Sep 8, 2017 1:08 PM UTC  The Mar-a-Lago resort. The Mar-a-Lago resort.Joe Raedle - Getty Images by [Rachel Lewis](https://time.com/author/rachel-lewis/) ## Rachel Lewis Sep 8, 2017 1:08 PM UTC President [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4930328/donald-trump-chuck-schumer-oval-office/)‘s seaside resort Mar-a-Lago and the surrounding barrier islands have been ordered to evacuate as the ferocious [Hurricane Irma](http://time.com/4933176/hurricane-irma-turks-caicos-florida/) approaches Florida. [Palm Beach County](http://fortune.com/2017/09/08/mandatory-evacuations-hurricane-irma-hurricane-irma-florida/) officials ordered that residents of the islands and low-lying areas should start to leave by 10 a.m. on Friday, [the Miami Herald reported.](http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article171917002.html) Around 125,000 people are thought to live in the area. All of Florida is under a state of emergency and the Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties have also been ordered to evacuate. Trump has not commented on the evacuation of the private club, but he did tweet to say that Irma was of “epic proportion” and told his followers to “be safe and get out of its way, if possible.” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/906133573400481792) An 11-bedroom mansion owned by Trump in St. Martin and the luxury home of Richard Branson on the Virgin Islands [have already been destroyed](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/richard-bransons-virgin-islands-home-destroyed-by-hurricane-irma-2017-09-07) by the now Category 4 storm. Hurricane Irma [has killed at least 14 people](http://time.com/4933182/hurricane-irma-islands-caribbean-bahamas/) as it tore through the Caribbean, including [Barbuda](http://time.com/4930743/hurricane-irma-barbuda-puerto-rico/) and [Turks & Caicos](http://time.com/4933176/hurricane-irma-turks-caicos-florida/), and is expected to arrive in Florida as early as Sunday morning. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4933251/mar-a-lago-evacuated-hurricane-irma/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4933251/mar-a-lago-evacuated-hurricane-irma/"},"headline":"Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort Ordered to Evacuate Ahead of Hurricane Irma","datePublished":"2017-09-08T13:08:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:20:28.423Z","description":"And the surrounding areas","url":"https://time.com/4933251/mar-a-lago-evacuated-hurricane-irma/","keywords":["Donald Trump","onetime","hurricane irma"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3662bc7d5a86b739/6988dcf9cf40a8005bc494cf/mar-a-lago-evacuated-hurricane-irma.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel Lewis","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rachel-lewis/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3662bc7d5a86b739/6988dcf9cf40a8005bc494cf/mar-a-lago-evacuated-hurricane-irma.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Chinese President Xi Jinping Arrives To West Palm Beach For Visit With President Trump","caption":"Chinese President Xi Jinping Arrives To West Palm Beach For Visit With President Trump","creditText":"Joe Raedle - Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4933251/mar-a-lago-evacuated-hurricane-irma/","name":"Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort Ordered to Evacuate Ahead of Hurricane Irma"}}]}] ```