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.

Last Updated: 3/24/2023Network:Discovery
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Home Sweet Homestead: Winter Washout
star
7.56
41 votes

#1 - 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.

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The Bears and the Bees
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7.57
115 votes

#2 - 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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Quake Shattered
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7.61
69 votes

#3 - Quake Shattered

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/2020

After a devastating earthquake, Marty saves the Hartleys' log cabin from crumbling to the ground while Misty replaces a collapsed greenhouse and Matt constructs a brand new building for the family to start a diesel engine repair shop.

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Volcano's Edge
star
7.65
66 votes

#4 - 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.

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Home Sweet Homestead: Homestead Is Where the Heart Is
star
7.65
52 votes

#5 - 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.

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Home Sweet Homestead: Rugged Road Home
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7.66
41 votes

#6 - 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.

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Winter's Fury
star
7.66
109 votes

#7 - 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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Under Siege
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7.67
123 votes

#8 - Under Siege

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/24/2016

The Raney's attempt to help the Zabec family in Virginia. With pigs destroying the homestead, predators killing livestock, and a huge oak threatening their cabin, the Raney's must convince them that their free-range dream is killing their homestead.

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Home Sweet Homestead: Cold Hard Lockdown
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7.68
44 votes

#9 - 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.

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Homestead of Horrors
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7.70
109 votes

#10 - Homestead of Horrors

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/6/2017

A nightmare in North Carolina. A couple that is terrified to hunt and a ramshackle home with exposed wires in the shower and chickens in the living room. The Raneys have never seen a homestead like this.

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Crisis Calls
star
7.70
67 votes

#11 - Crisis Calls

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2020

In Alaska, the Raneys turn a homestead on the verge of going up in flames into a golden opportunity. Later they race to Louisiana to protect a family under threat of vicious storms, black mold and feral hogs.

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Wolves at the Door
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7.70
155 votes

#12 - Wolves at the Door

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/14/2017

Poisoned well water and a mystery predator plague an Arizona homestead. After the family dog is killed, the Raneys must act quick to stop the couple from becoming the next victims.

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Trust or Die
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7.71
103 votes

#13 - Trust or Die

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/8/2016

The Deeters are dog-mushers with a homestead on the edge of disaster. Bears dine on the dog food and the forest around them is a deadly tinder box. The Raneys must push them to make drastic changes, but discover the Deeters don't trust outsiders.

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Paradise in Peril
star
7.72
32 votes

#14 - Paradise in Peril

Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/22/2021

The Raneys rescue a young family with a crumbling cabin on a homestead infested by slugs carrying a brain-eating parasite.

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Flood, Sweat & Tears (Part 1)
star
7.75
71 votes

#15 - Flood, Sweat & Tears (Part 1)

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/2019

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.

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Cobbers Nightmare
star
7.76
82 votes

#16 - Cobbers Nightmare

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/2020

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.

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It Takes a Village
star
7.76
41 votes

#17 - 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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Fury & Fire
star
7.76
66 votes

#18 - Fury & Fire

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/20/2019

Threatened by an approaching wildfire, Stuart & Toni Rinker need a quick solution to their failing Idaho homestead. The Raneys plan to fire-proof the Rinkers' cabin and build a firebreak, but will Stuart's opposition jeopardize success and their lives?

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Arizona Washout
star
7.76
62 votes

#19 - Arizona Washout

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/5/2020

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.

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All the Pretty Horses
star
7.76
42 votes

#20 - 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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Abandoned and Alone
star
7.77
151 votes

#21 - Abandoned and Alone

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/17/2016

In Montana, the Raney's help Beth and Mike Ettinger who live in an abandoned ghost town where many previous homesteaders failed. Survival is a battle on this homestead that is stalked by a mountain lion and void of any livestock, water or food.

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Bus, Sweat and Tears
star
7.77
22 votes

#22 - 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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Wisconsin Washout
star
7.79
78 votes

#23 - Wisconsin Washout

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/19/2019

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. But with a huge storm forecast, no one can predict if this rescue will succeed.

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No Place Like Dome
star
7.80
40 votes

#24 - No Place Like Dome

Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/31/2021

The Raney’s assist a struggling family in a cliffside geodesic dome home.

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By a Landslide
star
7.80
25 votes

#25 - 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.

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