After Hurricane Helene obliterates a 100-year-old farmhouse in NC, a once self-sufficient family is left with nothing; the Raneys face their most urgent mission yet: to rebuild a fourth-generation homestead, making it 100% self-sustainable.
Two young couples in Alaska struggle with their homestead near the Arctic Circle; but with no access, no water and no shelter, survival is impossible; the Raneys must engineer all-season solutions for the harshest climate they've ever faced.
A Colorado family's dream of self-sufficiency is crumbling under the destructiveness of their bison herd; to supply the ranch with food and water, the Raneys must first tame the chaos and build a path to true self-sustainability.
Marty returns to Interior Alaska to help a single mother whose homestead is on the brink of ruin; with a quake-damaged water line and bears circling the property, he must act fast to protect the Adams family's animals and dream.
A single mom watches her family's dream of a Big Island coffee farm fade; under threat from wild hogs, invasive bamboo and a lack of water, the Raneys must clear a path to survival.
The off-grid dream of an Arkansas family spans three generations -- but lately, they're struggling to make it work. A polar vortex hits mid-rescue, and the Raneys must pivot fast to protect lives and salvage the homestead's future.
When neighbors send a plea for help, the Raneys rush to rescue a lone Montana homesteader; with winter bearing down upon them, they must build a survival strategy from scratch to secure shelter, water and food before it's too late.
The Raneys scramble to ready their 40-acre homestead for winter; Marty gets an urgent SOS call from a fellow Alaskan; a plane crash has destroyed access to his homestead across a treacherous river, and he's unprepared.
Virginia homesteaders are on the brink after the unexplained disappearance of their water and food sources; the Raneys race to solve these mysteries, creatively revamping their infrastructure to give them the confidence to complete their dream cabin.
Two struggling homesteaders fight a losing battle against Maine's brutal winters and boglands; to save them, the Raneys bring new ingenuity to dry out their unfinished cabin and create higher ground for animals above the soggy New England soil.
Marty re-rescues the Broadhead family, whose Ohio home was made from 30,000 tires and faces major new structural issues; taking on a big challenge with limited time, Marty must restore a settling berm and construct a concrete storm cellar.
A Big Island family finds their off-grid paradise threatened by destructive storms and deadly pests; to save them, the Raneys must get creative.
It's the Raneys' first Florida rescue; a single mom is struggling against an overflowing swamp caused by devastating tropical storms; severe flooding has brought an invasion of gators; the Raneys must be more inventive than ever to save them.
With another big storm on the horizon, Marty responds to a new desperate plea from the Bower Family in eastern Vermont; with their only property access route wiped out by a 100-year flood, Marty must devise a new plan, without Misty or Matt.
An Alaska family's homestead grinds to a halt, facing an invasion of brown bears displaced by recent wildfires; the Raneys help them build the first-ever homestead fortress to safeguard their livelihood amidst the apex predators.
A single mother's homestead is trapped between two active volcanoes; to battle the threat of toxic rain, the Raneys reinforce their besieged property, adding a safe water source and fortified gardens.
Marty Raney returns to the Nash homestead on Kauai; he builds a sheep barn and works on beekeeping; an unexpected person helps with the garden.
A widowed homesteader, realizing she didn't learn the skills she needed before her husband's passing, is overwhelmed by her large family homestead; her six kids are now even more determined to protect their dad's off-grid legacy and over 100 animals.
Marty responds to a new call for help from the Welchels, who struggle to manage their 40-acre homestead after their ranch hand left; he gives them a new, life-changing masterclass on homestead consolidation.
Thinking they hit the jackpot, Oregon homesteaders buy an old schoolhouse founded by settlers on the historic Oregon Trail; it's been a classic case of buyer beware; flooding rivers devastate their home, gardens and livestock.
A Colorado war veteran's family and stable of horses are ravaged by hurricane-force winds that make subsistence all but impossible; when the Raneys learn of their larger dream, they pull out the stops with some of their most creative builds yet.
Oregon homesteaders find their dream in jeopardy following a near-fatal accident; the Raneys face a daunting rescue where a dilapidated bridge has cut them off from their land, and strict building regulations force them to get creative.
An early 20s couple struggles to keep their homestead afloat in torrential Texas weather; the Raneys face a tense and daunting rescue to save the rain-devastated cabin and soggy livestock shelters under threat of storms and tornado warnings.
A three-generation family in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains finds their homestead failing because they choose to live on the useless side of their land attached to power; The Raneys embark on a rescue to convince them to move to the other side.
The Raneys enter the shadow of Mount Denali to tackle their first-ever dual homestead rescue; Marty, Misty and Matt race against the clock to address food, water and shelter concerns that could ensure both homesteads survive the next brutal winter.
The Raneys cozy in for a good old-fashioned Alaskan movie night as they reflect on their most life-changing rescues and self-shot updates from homesteaders.
A recently divorced single mother finds herself unprepared for winter in interior Alaska; facing late summer wildfires, the Raneys embrace 22 hours of daylight to battle still-frozen ground to secure water and food stores to survive the winter.
A young family is on the brink of giving up during their first brutal winter in Arizona's high desert; as another round of snowstorms approaches, the Raneys race to solve the homestead's freezing water, food issues and inadequate livestock quarters.
A family of recent transplants that is longing for ranch life in central Texas finds itself on one of the most unsuitable homesteads the Raneys have seen yet; to save them, the Raneys must execute a total homestead makeover.
The Raneys struggle to revive an inherited Wyoming hill country homestead; to bring water to the property, Marty must solve the mystery of an untapped well; Misty and Matt combine forces on one of their most ambitious builds.
Struggling to revive a Wyoming hill country homestead with a tragic legacy, Marty must solve the mystery of an untapped well, while Misty and Matt combine forces on one of their most ambitious builds.
The Raneys meet their match on a homestead in Idaho, where millennial off-gridders are plagued with dead soil, grizzly bear visits and constant landslides; making matters worse, COVID strikes one of the Raneys, jeopardizing the rescue.
In a rescue first, the Raneys arrive at a Washington state homestead and find the couple's cabin recently collapsed; with winter weeks away, on land with a dangerous predator funnel, the race is on to solve the shelter, food and predator threats.
A Kentucky homestead, built in the historical remnants of an old mining town, faces biblical flooding; Marty revives the original barn, Matt devises a livestock escape pod and Misty conceives her first floating greenhouse.
The Raneys rally at Rika's Roadhouse; gathering inspiration for the summer ahead, they reflect on past rescues and the importance of a well-developed, off-grid mindset.
In the rugged Tennessee mountains, the Raneys scramble to save a family without suitable food, water and shelter; Marty constructs a massive yurt, Misty transforms a rundown pond into a food source and Matt creates a workshop with a propane forge.
The Raneys bring some homesteading mastery to a Vermont couple; Marty creates viable access through dense terrain; Misty builds an underground garden; Matt bear-proofs the homestead with ingenious builds.
The Raneys find an Idaho family struggling to survive in a geodesic dome home on the edge of a cliff; while Marty brings them water and Misty builds an innovative garden greenhouse, Matt and a local tracker corner a dangerous predator in a tree.
During a wild, unprecedented year, the Raneys visit a homestead they helped save more than three years ago and check in with other homesteads that have flourished in the months since the Raneys' rescue.
The Raneys rush to Texas homesteaders in severe hardship and unable to realize their dream of rescuing kill horses; Misty builds a multi-tier garden and duck pond, Marty constructs an innovative horse barn and Matt designs a unique storm shelter.
With a major setback in Misty's build, the Raneys race the clock in their rescue of a Texas homestead; Marty tackles the water crisis, Misty scrambles to complete the pond and garden, and Matt builds a hog trap for an additional food resource.
The Raneys find a Montana homestead struggling with food, predator and power problems; Marty and Matt reunite them with old firefighter squadmates who help consolidate and build out a couple's homestead for safety and accessibility.
The Raneys rescue a single-father homesteader facing threats of rockslides and bears in a Montana box canyon; but with Matt in Alaska awaiting the birth of his daughter, Marty and Misty face an uphill battle.
The Raneys face an emotional rescue of young, inexperienced homesteaders in Alabama; to save the legacy of an eighth generation family property, they must use all new ingenuity including a solar kiln, tornado bunker and upcycled predator-proof coop.
In Mississippi, the Raneys must first solve the mystery of flooding water before teaching a family of six to thrive off-grid together; builds include a new Elvis-inspired "Heartbreak Goat-tel" goat pen, garden compound and metal forge.
The Raneys rescue the Kramers in Alaska by converting an old barn into a commercial fishing kitchen; when Marty is suddenly forced to quarantine, Matt and Misty must finish alone, leading to the discovery of the homestead's biggest resource.
Misty and Matt find themselves alone on a critical rescue of Alaskan homesteaders ill from dirty water and stuck in a crumbling cabin. It's all-hands-on-deck as the Raneys call in family reinforcements to bring all new ingenuity to save the day.
The Raneys rescue a young family with a crumbling cabin on a homestead infested by slugs carrying a brain-eating parasite.
Using their own 40-acre homestead, the Raneys reveal the five essential watch-outs for wanna-be homesteaders seeking land.
The Raney family turn cameras on themselves as they shelter in place on their Alaskan homestead; a moose kill is discovered dangerously close to their cabin; Marty attempts to track the predators.
The Raneys kick off an annual tradition on the Alaskan homestead with a project that passes along essential skills to the next generation.
Marty races to rescue his property from a deluge of snow runoff; in Hawaii, Matt builds a human-sized slingshot to bring down invasive trees.
Marty embarks on a dangerous mission to carve a road up 300-foot cliffs; with their chickens growing, Misty asks her family to build a predator-proof coop from scratch.
Spring arrives and the family self-shoots preparation for the expansion of their homestead; Misty plots a supersized greenhouse to feed three generations.
In Alaska, the Raneys turn a homestead on the verge of going up in flames into a golden opportunity; they race to Louisiana to protect a family under threat of vicious storms, black mold and feral hogs.
The Raneys have traversed America saving homesteaders on the verge of failing and look back on the homesteads they saved.
The Raneys arrive in Ohio to find the Broadhead family struggling to survive in their home made of 30,000 tire bales; battling pests, flooding and unstable walls, the Raneys have their hands full in one of their most challenging rescues yet.
The Raneys continue rescuing the Broadhead's tire bale homestead in Central Ohio; the clock is ticking as Marty, Misty, and Matt work to provide fresh water, strengthen walls and jumpstart an indoor garden.
After a devastating earthquake, Marty saves the Hartleys' log cabin from crumbling to the ground; Misty replaces a collapsed greenhouse; Matt constructs a brand new building for the family to start a diesel engine repair shop.
The Raneys help a couple with a toxic salt water well, making it impossible for them to maintain a food source or livestock; Marty needs clay to build a massive catchment pond; Matt must build a large-scale solar still to de-contaminate the water.
In Missouri, the Raneys tackle a tree-house cabin that is on the verge of collapsing; Marty works to overhaul the entire base of the cabin; Misty constructs a greenhouse out of scavenged windows.
The Jackson family in Idaho suffers from a cabin on the verge of collapse and predator threat from 100 chickens; the Raneys use all new ingenuity to make the cabin livable, protect the flock and create a valuable income source.
In Northern California, the Raneys give a masterclass on rebuilding from scratch when they come to the aid of the Olson-Wilcox family whose homestead was completely destroyed in a devastating wildfire.
In a first ever Homestead intervention, a daughter pleads for help from the Raneys to rescue her mother and step-father whose failing homestead in Arizona sits in the crosshairs of deadly monsoon floods and a menacing cougar.
In the Smoky Mountains, the Raneys visit a wind-ravaged homestead on the brink of total collapse; the Raneys race to shore up key structures and establish a viable homestead business before the next big storm.
The Raneys put their ingenuity to the test on a homestead in Hawaii that was destroyed by 20-foot thick lava flow; first, they must bring life back to the property, then figure out how to make the structures mobile in case of another eruption.
With just three days to preserve the legacy of a fourth-generation Alaskan homesteading family, the Raneys must fix an earthquake-ravaged foundation and revive a dormant garden before hitting the lower 48 for another year of incredible rescues.
The Raneys explore their most epic rescues, counting down to the five most hostile and dangerous states that present the most grueling challenges for new homesteaders.
The Raneys revisit the Reathifords in the Smoky Mountains to get an update on how their off-grid dream has progressed since they were ravaged by storms that caused crippling power outages.
The Raneys return to the Shields-Rouu homestead in Wisconsin to get an update on their progress.
A homestead is in serious danger from a raging California wildfire prompting Marty to clear-cut surrounding trees and create an evacuation ark for livestock; Matt devises a unique layer of fire protection to save the home from destruction.
Marty takes on a risky first-time build -- a huge diverter trench to deflect the torrents of storm water devastating the homestead of musician Lou and his wife, Stacey; with a huge storm forecast, no one can predict if this rescue will succeed.
Marty is hit with a bombshell; the old well he's come to fix has already claimed its first victim; to set the Dagues on a path to self-sufficiency, the Raneys try to deliver a long-term water source, protein supply and sustainable power.
The Raneys return to Alaska to discover their own homestead is in utter disrepair; beetle kill has destroyed their only access, so they race to build a steel tram before the deep freeze sets in, but it may not be able to withstand a 7.2 earthquake.
Toxic land plagues a Kentucky homestead, so the Raneys must build the Rains family a hillside garden, turn a cave into a goat fortress and find uncontaminated water deep underground.
Marty embarks on an ambitious, off-grid hydropower system after Tennessee storms obliterate the Reathifords' power source; Matt creates a meat smoker, but a surprise accident leads to a construction site injury for one of the Raneys.
The Raneys create their first-ever self-automated homestead in the fierce Alaskan wilderness to function while firefighters Kim and Casey Boespflug are away on duty.
A dangerous request from the Smith family in a Missouri flood zone forces the Raneys into the homestead challenge of their lives as they build a dam and plan an entire cabin move; to save the family's business, Matt embarks on a knife shop remodel.
The Raneys must move an entire cabin into the flood zone as Marty's dam is put to the test; a surprise arrival of chicks means Misty needs a clever upgrade for a ravaged chicken coop; Matt crafts a knife blade in the Smiths' newly improved foundry.
Marty helps Oregon homesteaders April and Mike Kondash build a barn; Misty creates her first-ever subterranean garden; Matt finds a humane approach to a mysterious predator threat.
Threatened by an approaching wildfire, Stuart and Toni Rinker need a quick solution for their failing Idaho homestead; the Raneys plan to fireproof the Rinkers' cabin and build a firebreak, but Stuart objects.
Embarking on a new season of saving homesteads in peril, the Raneys look back on some of their most ingenious builds; they unpack their techniques, examine off-grid financial savings and reveal the all-time, fan-favorite build.
The Raney family arrives at a homestead threatened by heat, coyotes and even cows; Marty attempts to protect livestock with a massive build.
The Raneys help an Oregon homestead trapped at the bottom of a 100 foot cliff that separates them from four acres of land that they need for food and livestock; Marty takes a risk forming a road up a bedrock cliff to a forest with mountain lions.
The Raneys try to restore a couple's failed homestead in Ohio; Marty attempts to repair an old gas well.
The Raney family goes to the Ozarks and discovers a malnourished couple and a moldy cabin that's making them sick; massive electric storms threaten the build.
In Hawaii, the Raneys attempt to save two homesteaders whose dream homestead is in a flash-flood zone; as the weather closes in, they try to save the property from the water.
A hungry bear scratching the walls, disease carrying ticks, no food to eat, no power and 60 massive oaks looming over a flimsy cabin in tornado alley present the Raneys with their greatest challenges yet.
The Raneys help the Johnson family who have no drinking water or food sources; their dogs have been killed by a mystery predator and worry they are next.
The Raneys assist two Montana homesteaders who face being trapped on their property; when a medical emergency strikes, the Raneys face their first ever failed rescue.
A couple terrified to hunt and a ramshackle home with exposed wires in the shower and chickens in the living room.
Arctic temperatures and a hungry grizzly wreak havoc on a struggling homestead; the Ranys pursue huge builds, including a blacksmith shop.
Marty and son Matt try to access 40-acres of wilderness to build a new homestead, but must cross a dangerous river by way of an ingenious solution.
In Montana, the Raney's help Beth and Mike Ettinger who live in an abandoned ghost town stalked by a mountain lion and void of any livestock, water or food.
The Raney's help the Zabec family in Virginia, where pigs are destroying the homestead, predators are killing livestock, and a huge oak is threatening their cabin.
The dog-mushing Deeters own a homestead on the edge of disaster; the Raneys attempt to help, but discover the Deeters don't trust outsiders.
The Raneys help the Kondors in the Nevada desert, where the homestead suffers from rattler infested trailers, searing heat, sand storms and a lack of water.
The Raneys rush to a failing homestead in Colorado where husband Don makes a 40-mile mountain commute each day, leaving his wife alone and terrified to leave the house because of the surrounding bears and mountain lions.