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170.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 5K upvotes, which works out to 29 per 1,000 members.

29peak upvotes per 1,000 members
170.1Kmembers
5Kbest post
1.7Kmost comments
100posts 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.

53% 24% 11% 10%
Image 53% Gallery 24% Text 11% Video 10% Link 1% Question 1%

The topics it labels

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

Gear🎒 27 Food🌽 or Water💧 18 Survival🪓🏹💉 18 💩s**t post 🧻 15 Other🤷🏽‍♀️ 🤷🏽‍♂️ 12 Question❓❓ 6 Energy💨🌞🌊 3 Helpful Gear🎒 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Former Army Ranger/Sniper & Long Distance thru-hiker here. Your bugout loadouts are unhinged.

↑ 5K 💬 600 image 2026

Beginner preparedness

↑ 3.7K 💬 382 image 2025

Store shelves cleaned out in 1 day for a snowstorm

↑ 2.6K 💬 427 gallery 2025

Current Bug Out Kit

↑ 2.5K 💬 817 image 2024

Pizza Index not looking good. USA is going to war.

↑ 2.4K 💬 239 text 2026

A family’s house in Western Tennessee was untouched by recent floods due to them building levees around their property

↑ 2.4K 💬 145 video 2025

Thought I was overprepared, until I actually needed to move everything fast

↑ 2.4K 💬 240 image 2026

Found this on Pinterest. Is this a rainwater catchment system? Can someone explain why there's 2 Trash Cans?

↑ 2.3K 💬 459 image 2025

In 2015 I shrink wrapped $103 dollars and kept it on my take everywhere bag. its supposed to get me home or to a family home in the mountains in an e…

↑ 2.3K 💬 517 image 2024

My best mate gave me his food prep before moving to another country

↑ 2.2K 💬 100 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/prepping, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/prepping have?
r/prepping has about 170.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 5K upvotes, which is 29 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/prepping?
"Former Army Ranger/Sniper & Long Distance thru-hiker here. Your bugout loadouts are unhinged." reached 5K upvotes and 600 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/prepping.
What subreddits are similar to r/prepping?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/prepping?
Of the posts we hold, 53% are image posts and 24% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/prepping?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 19:00 UTC (1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 16:00 UTC (912 avg upvotes), Monday at 03:00 UTC (875 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/prepping?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/prepping has 1.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/prepping, 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.