r/prepping is a subreddit with 173k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses prepping, looking for gear, food, power, and water, and they frequently recommend/review firearm, headlamp, and chainsaw.
This subreddit is for discussions about prepping, with the primary focuses being on:
Food & Water: (disinfecting, storage, growing, harvesting, hunting, etc)
Survival Strategies: (long and/or short term)
Off-grid energy: (wind, solar, hydro)
Gear Question's: requests/reviews of your actions/ideas/gear
Other: Use common sense here please, and read the rules below
Popular Themes in r/prepping
#1
Advice Requests
: "Sometimes I worry that my preps of lawnmower blade machetes and stop sign armor will be wasted in a real emergency."
13 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "LF pdf solutions for reading"
4 posts
#3
Ideas
: "I got tired of checking 10 different things during outages, so I built a home storm dashboard"
3 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "I realized my outage prep focused on the wrong problem first"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/prepping
#1
Prepping
: "So...looking at how things are going, Prepping for the future must include a lot of focus on water, right?"
21 posts
#2
Looking For Gear
9 posts
#3
Food
: "Here's my humble Food cache so far"
9 posts
#4
Power
: "Power outage - 102F - report"
9 posts
#5
Water
: "So...looking at how things are going, prepping for the future must include a lot of focus on Water, right?"
6 posts
#6
Kit
: "After 2 decades I have found the perfect “Kit gun” setup!"
6 posts
#7
Outage
: "14 hour Outage yesterday and I learned a lot about our house"
6 posts
#8
Preparedness
6 posts
#9
Radio
5 posts
#10
Medical
: "Leaning more 'I'll be a medic helping people if SHTF' than someone toting a gun and fighting. What are the best ways to learn Medical skills for the average person? What would you keep in a Medical only bag to carry into a situation?"
5 posts
Products Discussed in r/prepping
Firearm
94 reviews
#1
AR-15
5.0★ from 11 reviews
#2
Ruger
4.6★ from 11 reviews
#3
Shotgun
5.0★ from 8 reviews
Headlamp
22 reviews
#1
Nitecore
4.3★ from 3 reviews
#2
Petzl
4.0★ from 3 reviews
#3
Sofirn
4.7★ from 3 reviews
Chainsaw
20 reviews
#1
Stihl
4.7★ from 11 reviews
#2
Milwaukee
5.0★ from 2 reviews
#3
Greenworks
4.0★ from 2 reviews
Flair Used in r/prepping
#1
Food🌽 or Water💧
: "Hot take, not enough preppers actually practice cooking with shelf stable ingredients"
45 posts
#2
Gear🎒
: "Are we still doing “get home bags”?"
43 posts
#3
Survival🪓🏹💉
: "Burying a shipping container for a bunker is one of the most dangerous prepper ideas out there. Change my mind."
38 posts
#4
Other🤷🏽♀️ 🤷🏽♂️
: "What's the most "overprepared" thing you've done that actually paid off?"
25 posts
#5
Question❓❓
: "Thought I was overprepared, until I actually needed to move everything fast"
23 posts
#6
Energy💨🌞🌊
: "Tested a seawater-activated emergency light directly in the ocean. No battery needed."
12 posts
#7
💩s**t post 🧻
: "Little preparedness tip for ya"
11 posts
#8
‼️MOD‼️
: "Howdy folks"
2 posts
#9
Bunkers
: "The safest house in the USA in case of WW3 (safer than the white house)"
1 post
Member Growth in r/prepping
Yearly
+45k members(35.0%)
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Last updated: September 6, 2026