About r/Survival
In its own words:
Wilderness Survival
Community guide
r/Survival (#179, about 5.0 million). Wilderness Survival Rules: Be nice, follow reddiquette; Keep all posts on the topic of Wilderness Survival; No "check out my gear" posts.; No blog spam or blatant advertising-only posts; Please use the search feature before posting; Include med-cert level for medical posts/comments.; Do not post dangerous advice; No Common Reposts/Crossposts; No Troll Accounts; No "prepping" posts. This sub is about WILDERNESS survival. Sample ~1.2 ppd.
Fit
Discussion as constrained by collected rules.
Practical pointers
Live Reddit rules are authoritative. Stats are SubMouse snapshots/samples.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jan 25, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 353 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/strength_training (#178) and ahead of r/pettyrevenge (#180) in our ranking.
What sets r/Survival apart
Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.2 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/Survival grew from 5,028,994 to 5,030,727 subscribers (+1.7K, +0.03%). That is about 39 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Activity and best time to post
r/Survival gets about 1.2 new posts a day. The public archive holds 44,110 posts and 615,057 comments in total, about 13.9 comments per post.
Rules of r/Survival
The moderators of r/Survival list 11 rules. In short:
- Be nice, follow reddiquette
- Keep all posts on the topic of Wilderness Survival
- No "check out my gear" posts.
- No blog spam or blatant advertising-only posts
- Please use the search feature before posting
- Include med-cert level for medical posts/comments.
- Do not post dangerous advice
- No Common Reposts/Crossposts
- No Troll Accounts
- No "prepping" posts. This sub is about WILDERNESS survival
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Survival and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/Survival have?
r/Survival has 5,030,727 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #179 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,733 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/Survival?
r/Survival was created on Jan 25, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jan 31, 2008.
How active is r/Survival?
Moderately: r/Survival gets about 1.2 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 44,110 posts and 615,057 comments.
What is r/Survival about?
The community describes itself as: “Wilderness Survival”
Is r/Survival safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Survival as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/Survival?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Survival accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 11 posted rules, starting with: “Be nice, follow reddiquette”; “Keep all posts on the topic of Wilderness Survival”; “No "check out my gear" posts.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/Survival?
Communities with similar topics include r/dating_advice (4.9M), r/manga (4.8M), r/psychology (4.9M), r/bodyweightfitness (4.8M) and r/marvelstudios (4.9M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Survival.