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FI/RE - Financial Independence & Retiring Early. FI/RE (Financial Independence / Retiring Early) is a money strategy that's sweeping the nation. It's not easy, but it is simple: earn more, spend less, and use the difference wisely. Build a baseline of financial security with the difference first, then use it to invest for your future. That way you can begin to earn financial freedom and control your own destiny. Founded 2009 · 1M members · text posts only

1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 26.2K upvotes, which works out to 26 per 1,000 members.

26peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1Mmembers
26.2Kbest post
3Kmost comments
403posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

64% 36%
Text 64% Question 36%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

General Question 62 Advice Request 60 Milestone / Celebration 29 Opinion 21 Original Content 4 Non-USA 2 Subreddit PSA / Meta 1 News 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

You are being lied to.

↑ 26.2K 💬 1.2K text 2026

I “quiet quit” my job a decade ago. Welp, here I am, turning 50, 4 major promotions later, and my net worth is more than I could have ever imagined.

↑ 24.2K 💬 1.3K text 2025

My sister and her husband died. I am the godfather. We are DINKs no more. I haven’t worked in a decade and will be returning to workforce soon.

↑ 17.9K 💬 2.3K text 2025

my dad retired early without ever making big money and i still can’t wrap my head around it

↑ 13.1K 💬 3K text 2025

One of the biggest flexes in life is not having to work.

↑ 8.1K 💬 722 text 2025

Watching my parents burn rate has made me rethink my FIRE number

↑ 7.8K 💬 1.3K text 2025

Boom! The company my amazing wife works for sold and we are now very ChubbyFIRE. We are about to take the vacation of a lifetime and call it quits on…

↑ 7.3K 💬 837 text 2026

Can I retire with 1.95 million at age 35?

↑ 7K 💬 2.6K question 2025

In 90mins I will be choosing to walk away from corporate work forever.

↑ 6.6K 💬 542 text 2025

I Fired 13 years ago, why does everyone still want to find something for me to do for money?

↑ 6K 💬 609 question 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Fire, in numbers

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What is r/Fire?
r/Fire ("FI/RE - Financial Independence & Retiring Early") describes itself this way: FI/RE (Financial Independence / Retiring Early) is a money strategy that's sweeping the nation. It's not easy, but it is simple: earn more, spend less, and use the difference wisely. Build a baseline of financial security with the difference first, then use it to invest for your future. That way you can begin to earn financial freedom and control your own destiny. It was founded in 2009 and has 1M members.
How many members does r/Fire have?
r/Fire has about 1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 403 of its posts; the biggest reached 26.2K upvotes, which is 26 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Fire?
"You are being lied to." reached 26.2K upvotes and 1.2K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Fire.
What subreddits are similar to r/Fire?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/economicCollapse.
What kind of posts do best on r/Fire?
Of the posts we hold, 64% are text posts and 36% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Fire?
Across 403 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 01:00 UTC (4.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 22:00 UTC (2.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 23:00 UTC (2.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Fire?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Fire has 4.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 137 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Fire, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.