Virginia homesteaders are on the brink after the disappearance of their water and food sources.

Arctic Temperatures and a hungry grizzly wreak havoc on a struggling homestead. The Raneys leap to action with huge builds including a blacksmith shop, but tragedy strikes.

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.

A tragic plane crash has destroyed access to his homestead across a treacherous river.

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.

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.

A hungry bear scratching the walls, disease carrying ticks, no food to eat, no power to cry for help, and 60 massive oaks looming over a flimsy cabin in tornado alley. Is this Missouri homestead the Raneys greatest ever challenge? You bet it is.

Marty faces his most daunting challenge ever in the rescue of a Tennessee homestead. Down Misty and Matt, he calls on past homesteaders and friends Ken and Anita Corsini, a husband and wife HGTV home renovation team.

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.

The Raneys tackle a treehouse cabin on the verge of collapse in Missouri.

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.

Rookie homesteaders may not survive their first Arizona desert winter.

The Raneys are in Maine to help a couple whose homestead is overrun with boglands.

The Raneys must rescue an Arizona family under siege from livestock-eating coyotes & hungry cattle! While Marty and Matt try to build a massive livestock "fort" from three 40 foot storage containers, Misty must find a way to grow crops in the desert.

The Raneys face a first: a homestead completely abandoned by a couple now stranded in an Ohio suburb. Hope lies solely in firing up a rusted old gas well and converting natural gas into light, heat, and power to shock this homestead back to life.

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.

A day in, 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 help a couple whose Arizona homestead is threatened by monsoons.

The Raneys bring some homesteading mastery to a Vermont couple who start but rarely finish big projects. Marty creates viable access through dense terrain, Misty builds an underground garden and Matt bear-proofs the homestead with ingenious builds.

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.

Young homesteaders and their livestock in Georgia are mired in mud clay.

It's the Raneys' first Florida rescue, and a single mom is struggling against an overflowing swamp caused by devastating tropical storms. Worse yet, severe flooding has brought an invasion of gators -- the Raneys must be more inventive than ever to save them.

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.

The Raneys try to access 40 acres of wilderness to build a new homestead.

Toxic land plagues this 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.