Doomsday Preppers

Dennis McClung and family show their backyard food production system; Lisa Bedford (The Survival Mom) takes urban preparation to a new level in preparing for a financial collapse; the Kobler and Hunt families combine forces to ensure food production through an economic collapse. David Kobler and Scott Hunt are the owners of Practical Preppers, a company that provides expert evaluation in later episodes.^[12]

Paul Range and friends prepare for a

David Sarti, a YouTube "firearms instructor" and self-taught survivalist, is prepared for an electrical grid failure; Kellene Bishop of Utah has stocked only the finest gourmet survival foods in preparation for financial collapse; Kathy Harrison, "the Doris Day of Doom", has prepared her local community for a New Madrid earthquake; Dennis Evers brings the family together to survive global chaos caused by hyperinflation.

Tim Ralston — The manufacturer of a survival tool manufacturer, the Crovel, loses part of a thumb during firearms practice for the show; Jason Charles, a New York City fireman-turned-prepper, demonstrates urban survival skills; Jules Dervaes is preparing for the collapse of the industrial food system; Pat Brabble insists on surviving hyperinflation by planning ahead.

Martin Colvill lives on the road with his wife as a "survival trucker" and looks to prepare for the upcoming economic collapse; Donna Nash is prepared to quarantine all her family members to protect against a global pandemic; Kevin O'Brien is concerned about losing his home due to rising sea levels created by global warming or a sudden polar shift.

Michael Patrick Douglas, a man of the land in Maine, shows off homesteading techniques he believes will become necessary due to overpopulation; Larry Hall turns an underground missile silo into a bunker to make sure his family is safe in any event; Becky Brown (of Grab n Go Food Storage) is making sure she and others are ready for martial law.

For Mike Mester, civil unrest is just around the corner and he aims to get everyone ready; Colorado computer programmer Preston White has collected over 11,200 types of seeds and plans for biosphere living in a

Doug Huffman is prepared, teaching techniques for surviving a second

Bruce Beach, a lifelong prepper, is focused on nuclear war and saving children in his 42 underground buses; Jeremy and Kelly, concerned parents in Salt Lake City, are preparing for the collapse of society due to peak oil; Bradford Frank of San Diego works around the clock in preparation for a pandemic that could end life as we know it.

John Major has moved his family to

Barry, Pink and Cole have the ultimate urban underground bunker right in their garage; Steve Pace, a hometown survivalist, is ready to take on long-term electric failure; Carolina resident Laura Kunzie is preparing for a massive airborne flu outbreak.

Texas prepper "Mr. Wayne" bases his doomsday fears on a Chinese financial takeover and has prepared many ways to survive such events; John & Cristina Sellers are hardworking Americans who want to protect what they have; Jason & Tanya have done their homework on how life and prepping can happen on a budget.

National Geographic brings the year together by looking at how some people have prepared in similar ways and reminds viewers that even a little emergency preparation is better than none.

Johnny O is prepping for terrorist attacks on nuclear power plants.

Jason Beacham is a 15-year-old boy who has been prepping for economic collapse since age 11; Big Al is a Tennessee musician who is prepping for a Russian nuclear attack with a secret mountainous bug-out location; former racer Braxton Southwick of Salt Lake City is prepping for a biological terrorist attack.

Jay Blevins is a former law enforcement officer who is prepping with his family and neighbors for a global economic collapse; Brian Murdock and his Colombian wife-to-be Tatiana are preparing to relocate from suburban

Tom Perez has spent over 12 years prepping for widespread chaos following the detonation of a dirty bomb by terrorists.

Jeff Bushaw plans to fly his family to safety following the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano; Allen and Franco have built sustainable food production systems in preparation for worldwide food shortages; John Adrain has invented numerous security gadgets to turn his estate into a technological fortress safe from a wide range of disasters.

Bob Kay, a nutritional scientist in Southern California, is prepping for environmental destruction due to

Three New York preppers plan to escape from a variety of disasters: student Cameron Moore hopes to flee a meltdown from a nearby nuclear plant; Margaret Ling is planning to take flight in case another hurricane strikes her city, recalling the events of Hurricane Sandy; Jay, remembering the September 11 attacks, is preparing to escape with his family from another terrorist attack on the city.

Doug, who owns a rock hauling business in Tennessee, plans to "bug-in" with his family in his underground bunker, using a hillside of boulders to ward off potential threats and stockpiling coins minted before the 1970s because their higher silver content will makes them useful for bartering; Jeff Flaningham is a single Wisconsin native looking for woman who will live with him in his decommissioned SM-65 Atlas missile silo in rural central Kansas after a catastrophic event; Jeff goes on dates with three women he has met through an online dating service and arranges a second date with one of them, Stephanie, at his missile silo.

Craig Compeau, a third-generation Alaskan who is prepping for a government takeover, has set up a remote prefabricated InterShelter dome in the Alaskan wilderness; 44-year-old adventurer David Lakota is depending on his intuition, his connection to nature, and the mountainous terrain of Hawaii to survive a giant

Curt has built a fortress at his 80-acre estate in high desert of Oregon, outfitted with a 3,000-square-foot greenhouse, an artificial lake, infrared cameras, a high-tech software system, and 30 bugout vehicles; former Army Ranger Rodney Dial, from Ketchikan, Alaska, obtains an Armored Personnel Carrier called "War Machine" as he hides supplies in large metal underwater pods and his family practices an offensive strategy called "rolling thunder."

The episode recaps the six highest-scoring preppers of the first two seasons: 6) John Adrain (season 2, episode 5); 5) Bryan Smith (season 2, episode 9); 4) Craig Compeau (season 2, episode 14); 3) Cpt. Bill Simpson (season 2, episode 15); 2) "The Colony" (season 2, episode 19), and 1) Paul Range and Gloria Haswell (season 1, episode 1).

Tyler Smith, the leader of a group calling themselves the "Marauders," describes his plans to commit armed robbery; he was later arrested and booked on two counts of second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm because he was a previously convicted child sex offender and was legally barred from possessing firearms.^[61][62] Asked for comment on Smith’s arrest, National Geographic issued a statement: "We are aware of the arrest and have decided not to air this episode until all legal matters are sorted out";^[63] the episode was eventually aired.

Tracy Foutch adds armor to a school bus to create a bugout vehicle; Dan Rojas uses a

Rob builds a system of elaborate booby traps around his home near Dallas; Greg builds a near-invisible bugout location in the woods.

John Tucker builds a bugout vehicle, turning bee hives into a mobile apiary with scythed wheels; Bret and Shane Maggio construct a sniper tower with a zip line, allowing for a quick escape.

Two Tennessee men named David are both getting ready for a massive earthquake along the New Madrid Fault: David Mays is building a fleet of drones to help him survive in West Tennessee, while David Nash builds a 14-ton geodesic shelter out of concrete in Middle Tennessee.