r/prepping is a subreddit with 166k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses prepping, emergency, water, power, and food, 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"
28 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Emergency blanket vs tent vs bivy bag. Which one would be the best for a bug out bag?"
17 posts
#3
Ideas
: "I got tired of checking 10 different things during outages, so I built a home storm dashboard"
1 post
#4
Money Talk
: "How much cash to hoard???"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/prepping
#1
Prepping
: "Food Pantry Prepping"
66 posts
#2
Emergency
: "Emergency blanket vs tent vs bivy bag. Which one would be the best for a bug out bag?"
28 posts
#3
Water
: "Is my stored Water contaminated with algae? Is it pointless now to keep stored?"
18 posts
#4
Power
: "More than One Million Anker Power Banks Recalled Due to Fire and Burn Hazards; Manufactured by Anker Innovations"
18 posts
#5
Food
: "A lot of my long term Food storage has been spending a good amount of time at like 78-79 degrees F. Is this a problem?"
16 posts
#6
Storage
: "Utilizing small spaces for Storage/pantry"
15 posts
#7
Survival
: "Advice for many preppers out there"
14 posts
#8
Gear
: "Rate my apocolypse Gear"
12 posts
#9
Preppers
: "Preppers in tropical climates (high heat, humidity, heavy rain), what are the biggest differences in strategy compared to temperate countries?"
11 posts
#10
Bag
: "Are we still doing “get home Bags”?"
10 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💧
: "Life Straw"
40 posts
#2
Gear🎒
: "Are we still doing “get home bags”?"
36 posts
#3
Question❓❓
: "Thought I was overprepared, until I actually needed to move everything fast"
34 posts
#4
Survival🪓🏹💉
: "Burying a shipping container for a bunker is one of the most dangerous prepper ideas out there. Change my mind."
34 posts
#5
Other🤷🏽♀️ 🤷🏽♂️
: "What's the most "overprepared" thing you've done that actually paid off?"
30 posts
#6
Energy💨🌞🌊
: "Heads up from someone in the battery supply chain, prices are going up after summer"
16 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."
8 posts
#8
‼️MOD‼️
: "Howdy folks"
1 post
#9
bunker
: "There’s an underground nuclear bunker in Beijing where people actually live"
1 post
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Yearly
+42k members(33.7%)
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Last updated: June 29, 2026