George Clooney and Amal Clooney were forced to leave their home in Brignoles as wildfires spread across Europe, turning the Clooney family evacuates from France home story into a real evacuation, not a distant warning. The couple lives there with Alexander and Ella, their nine-year-old twins, and the fire threat reached the place they call home.
The fires in France were reported to be four times the size of Paris, and more than 200,000 residents and tourists were forced to flee. George and Amal Clooney wrote to Brignoles Mayor Didier Brémond as they left, saying, "Dear Didier, at this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment,"
Brignoles and the evacuation
The couple’s letter put the immediate problem in plain terms. "As we evacuate Brignoles we want to emphasise two things, first we hope you and the people of our city are safe and second that Amal and I are committed to making sure that whatever happens to our village, we are part of this community and we’ll be part of making it whole."
That language shows the move was not a routine absence. George and Amal Clooney love Brignoles and call it their home, but they were forced to leave it as the wildfires threatened the area. Their home is the 172-hectare Domaine de Canadel, which they bought in 2021 for around $USD8.3 million and later made their primary residence.
George Clooney and Amal Clooney
George Clooney has also spoken about why the family lives with such a strong focus on privacy. In a 2025 interview with GQ, he said, "So I have a goal of trying to protect, I don’t want pictures of my kids." He added, "We deal in very serious subject matters, with very serious bad guys, and we don’t want to have photos of our kids out there. So we have to work hard at trying to stay private, and it’s tricky, as you can imagine."
That private life now sits against a public emergency. The twins, Alexander and Ella, are part of the evacuation story too, because the family’s home base sits inside the area affected by the fires in Southeast France. George Clooney and Amal Clooney welcomed them on June 6, 2017, and the family’s move to Europe was meant to give them more privacy, not a wildfire escape.
France fires and what follows
The immediate question is whether the Clooneys’ home survives the fires in Brignoles. The letter says they do not know whether their beautiful home will make it through this terrible moment, and that uncertainty now stands beside the larger displacement across France and Europe.
For now, the facts point to a family leaving a residence that has become central to their life in Brignoles while a far larger fire crisis forces residents and tourists to move. George and Amal Clooney said they will remain part of the community and help make it whole, a promise that matters most after the smoke clears.
