Urban Survival

Urban areas and suburban fill-in present significant survival challenges to preppers. While every climate and terrain type has its share of perks and hardships, for all their technological splendor cities are among the hardest of environments to endure a SHTF event in. Consider that more than 80% of the American population in total lives in […]

When people read and talk about survival and preparedness, there is a great focus on rural locations, bugging out, and surviving in the wilderness. However, over 80% of the population in the U.S. lives in urban areas and a large majority of those people don’t have anywhere to go outside of the city, such as

Can you bug in if you live in the city? Absolutely you can. There are just some adjustments you need to make to your planning so that you can increase your chance of survival. Although most experts may recommend that you get out of the city if possible during a SHTF event, that just isn’t

Are you living in a city and you’re worried about disasters, emergencies, or even SHTF? Whether you’re worried about riots, an economic collapse, or just want to be ready for everyday emergencies, the first step should be to put together a customized urban survival kit that’s tailored to your own needs. Although city dwellers are

When prepping for a disaster, there are three S-es you need to consider: safety, shelter, and supplies. But, securing them can be different when living in the city than in the countryside. The circumstances will be different, and you need to adapt depending on the location you are in. In an urban setting, the major

Room isn’t something you have, it’s something you make… Many urban preppers complain about the fact that they don’t have enough space to store their preps. If you live in a tiny apartment, there’s no doubt it can be tougher to find a place to store extra preps. Using the standard storage locations, most people in small apartments will

Literally every city is full of free, delicious, edibles that will give you very nutritious meals post-collapse in addition to your stockpile. In fact, you can forage for them pre-collapse as well since a lot of the edibles I’m about to reveal to you are on public property. When Can You (Legally) Pick Fruits and

Since most prepping advice is focused on wilderness survival (due to the large amount of people living in the countryside who are interested), city dwellers are a little left out when it comes to no-fluff urban advice. This is exactly why I wrote this article… toget give you some of the best urban survival tips out there. The list isn’t by far exhaustive but it

While there are many survival skills one could learn, the thing is, most of them are for wilderness survival scenarios… and that’s fine, except many of us live in cities, so our needs and skillset are a little different. I decided to make a similar one just for urban scenarios. I’m doing this for several reasons, the biggest