The WORST episodes of Homestead Rescue
Every episode of Homestead Rescue ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Homestead Rescue!
Expert homesteader, Marty Raney, along with his daughter Misty and son Matt, give struggling families a second chance at surviving off-the-grid. The stakes are high, but the Raney family is determined to prepare these families for nature’s worst and set them up for success.
#1 - Raney Returns: Quake and Break
Season 13 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2025
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.
#2 - Lone Wolf
Season 12 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/27/2024
As the Raneys scramble to ready their 40-acre homestead for winter, Marty gets an urgent SOS call from a fellow Alaskan. A tragic plane crash has destroyed access to his homestead across a treacherous river, and he's dangerously unprepared.
#3 - Heartland Heartache
Season 12 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/24/2024
Novice but passionate farmsteaders in Iowa are on the verge of losing the legacy of their late father. The Raneys must quickly give them an off-grid masterclass and help them complete one of the most unique rescues ever.
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#4 - Mystery of Cursed Ground
Season 12 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/3/2024
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.
#5 - Texas Rift
Season 11 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/7/2024
An extended family of homesteaders are on the brink of disintegration in Texas, crowded with their animals on a sliver of their land; to overcome the rift between the homesteaders and the homestead itself, the Raneys must execute an epic overhaul.
#6 - It Takes a Village
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/5/2021
The Raneys find a Montana homestead struggling through food, predator and power problems. Marty and Matt reunite them with old firefighter squad mates who help consolidate and build out a couple's homestead for safety and accessibility.
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#7 - Home Sweet Homestead: Rugged Road Home
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/17/2020
Marty embarks on a dangerous self-shot mission to carve a road up 300-foot cliffs. With their chickens growing, Misty enlists her family to build a predator-proof coop from scratch.
#8 - Raney Returns: Crash and Berm
Season 12 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/17/2024
Marty re-rescues an Ohio homestead besieged by storms and a crumbling wall.
#9 - Home Sweet Homestead: Winter Washout
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/10/2020
In Alaska, 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. The Raneys check-in with homesteaders rebuilding after devastating wildfires.
#10 - Raney Returns: Paradise Lost Again
Season 12 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/26/2025
Marty Raney returns to the island of Kauai to find the Nashes five-acre homestead again in peril. While Marty creates a barn for the family's sheep and upgrades their bee-keeping operation, a surprise guest helps them revive their overgrown garden.
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#12 - The Bears and the Bees
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/15/2017
The Raneys find a bee-keeper with hives attracting bears and a homestead too unsanitary for a child to visit. Marty builds a bathhouse and bush-engineers a windmill water pump, but violent winds threaten to derail his mission to reunite a family.
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#13 - Tennessee Unplugged
Season 11 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/10/2023
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 high-stakes rescue to convince them to move to the other side.
#14 - Home Sweet Homestead: Cold Hard Lockdown
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/27/2020
The intense winter has frozen the water supply on the homestead, forcing Marty to hunt for a new water source In Hawaii, Matt and his wife Katie self-film a lesson in Cacao harvesting on her family's plantation.
#15 - Volcano's Edge
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/19/2020
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.
#16 - Home Sweet Homestead: Homestead Is Where the Heart Is
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/3/2020
The Raneys kick off an annual tradition on the Alaskan homestead with a project that passes along essential skills to the next generation. The Raneys check in via video with homesteaders who built a house with 30,000 rubber tires.
#17 - Brown Bear-anoia
Season 12 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/12/2025
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.
#18 - Bus, Sweat and Tears
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/7/2023
Bus-dwelling Virginia homesteaders struggle for a foothold in the wilderness. After learning the couple sent their son to live with his grandmother until the homestead can thrive, the Raneys undertake one of the biggest rescues ever to reunite the family.
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#19 - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/26/2023
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.
#20 - Hurricane Ravaged
Season 13 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2025
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 in one week.
#21 - Hawaii-Five-No
Season 12 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/1/2024
A Big Island family finds their off-grid paradise strangled by destructive storms that bring deadly pests and invasive strawberry guava. In what will become one of the Raneys' most emotional rescues yet, they are forced to get more creative than ever to save themselves.
#22 - By a Landslide
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/14/2023
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.
#23 - Between Two Volcanoes
Season 12 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/19/2025
A single mother's homestead is trapped between two active volcanoes, and she finds herself torn between giving up and fighting for the life her kids love. To battle the threat of toxic rain, the Raneys reinforce her besieged homestead, adding a safe water source and fortified gardens.
#24 - Winter's Fury
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/22/2016
Marty, Matt & Misty Raney help the Russell family struggling on a failing homestead in the forests of Pennsylvania. During the biggest storm of the century, the family faces a food shortage with no hunting skills and a cabin on the brink of collapse.
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#25 - All the Pretty Horses
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/21/2021
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.
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