r/prepping is a subreddit with 165k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses prepping, emergency, 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
: "Just started! I know it’s not much but would love any advice"
17 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Any gas mask filters that I can clean and reuse or at least last longer than 5 days before having to change it during a nuclear war?"
3 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Be honest with me: how bad is it and how bleak is my future?"
1 post
#4
Ideas
: "I got tired of checking 10 different things during outages, so I built a home storm dashboard"
1 post
#5
Money Talk
: "Lil payday activities. Don’t have a 12g yet but next weekend I’m gonna put $100 down on a lil Mossberg maverick."
1 post
#6
Opportunities
: "I'm rethinking "retirement" as resilience (land, water, food security)"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/prepping
#1
Prepping
: "Result of 18 months Prepping"
100 posts
#2
Emergency
: "Advice for many preppers out there"
28 posts
#3
Food
: "Did a monthly review/restock of my backup Food pantry. Thought I'd share an insight with you."
26 posts
#4
Power
: "More than One Million Anker Power Banks Recalled Due to Fire and Burn Hazards; Manufactured by Anker Innovations"
22 posts
#5
Water
: "I'm rethinking "retirement" as resilience (land, Water, food security)"
20 posts
#6
Survival
: "48 Hours in a "Steel Oven": My Survival Plan for a Grueling Bus Trip with a 5-Year-Old (No WC, 28°C Heat, Zero Ventilation)"
19 posts
#7
Preppers
: "What do Preppers actually think a "collapse-like" scenario would look like?"
18 posts
#8
Solar
: "For those of you with Solar and battery setups how much did you actually spend total"
12 posts
#9
Storage
: "Valley Food Powdered Milk Storage"
12 posts
#10
Medical
: "My 3-tiered Medical prepping system"
11 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💧
: "Result of 18 months prepping"
53 posts
#2
Gear🎒
: "Are we still doing “get home bags”?"
37 posts
#3
Other🤷🏽♀️ 🤷🏽♂️
: "Moms pantry she’s definitely prepared"
35 posts
#4
Survival🪓🏹💉
: "Reinforced concrete Structure bunker/House"
32 posts
#5
Question❓❓
: "Thought I was overprepared, until I actually needed to move everything fast"
22 posts
#6
Energy💨🌞🌊
: "Check your battery banks often"
15 posts
#7
💩s**t post 🧻
: "Sometimes I worry that my preps of lawnmower blade machetes and stop sign armor will be wasted in a real emergency."
3 posts
#8
Helpful Gear🎒
: "There are coins that allow you to decode Morse code extremely efficiently"
1 post
#9
‼️MOD‼️
: "Howdy folks"
1 post
#10
Bunkers
: "The safest house in the USA in case of WW3 (safer than the white house)"
1 post
Member Growth in r/prepping
Yearly
+43k members(35.5%)
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Last updated: June 11, 2026