A flooded residential street
Shop by need: Flood. Products are drawn live from the same catalog as the category pages, at the same checked prices. Photo: Kgbo, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Shop for a Flood

In a flood, water is both the emergency and the threat: floodwater is contaminated, tap water may carry a boil notice, and the drive out can kill. The products below focus on filtration and purification you control, storage that stays sealed, and bags that keep documents and essentials dry and ready.

The National Weather Service line is the whole driving plan: turn around, do not drown. Six inches of moving water can knock you down; twelve inches can carry a car.

The kit: 22 products across all four categories

Food, water, power, and tactical mixed the way a real kit mixes them. Prices checked November 11, 2026 at each retailer's own store; the same data feeds the catalogs, so a price can never disagree between pages.

LifeStraw personal water filter straw

LifeStraw

LifeStraw Personal Water Filter

The personal filter for a bug-out bag, glove box, or carry-on. Drink straight from the source: no pumping, no batteries, rated by the brand to 1,000 gallons.

Learn more: Water Filters & Purifiers, Make Water Safe in an Emergency

Sawyer MINI water filter with squeeze pouch

Sawyer

Sawyer MINI Water Filtration System

The ultralight squeeze filter: 2 ounces, brand-rated to 100,000 gallons, and it screws onto standard water bottles. The hiker's pick that belongs in every home kit too.

Learn more: Water Filters & Purifiers, Make Water Safe in an Emergency

Alexapure Pro stainless gravity water filter

Alexapure

Alexapure Pro Water Filtration System

The countertop gravity system for a household: stainless steel, no electricity, a 2.5-gallon lower chamber, sold by My Patriot Supply. Filters while you do other things.

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Learn more: Water Filters & Purifiers, Emergency Water Storage

Stealth Angel 72-hour survival kit backpack in red

Stealth Angel

Stealth Angel 72-Hour 1-Person Survival Kit

The ready-made starter bag for one adult: food, water, shelter, first aid, and tools in a red pack, built by Stealth Angel to cover the first 72 hours.

Learn more: Bug-Out Bag Guide, Bug-Out Bag Checklist Builder

The Seventy2 survival system shell and insert

Uncharted Supply Co.

Uncharted Supply Co. The Seventy2 Survival System

The premium one-person system: a waterproof 40L shell with a labeled, organized insert, built with first responders. The bag you buy once.

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Learn more: Bug-Out Bag Guide, Bug-Out Bag Checklist Builder

Ready Hour 72-hour food kit pouches from My Patriot Supply

My Patriot Supply

Ready Hour 72-Hour Food Kit (My Patriot Supply)

The starter rung: 20 servings in four resealable pouches. The brand rates it at 2,000+ calories a day for one person for 72 hours, with up to a 25-year shelf life.

About $11.66 per day of supply

Learn more: Freeze-Dried Food Guide, Food Storage Calculator

XMRE 1300XT case of 12 MRE meals with heaters

XMRE

XMRE 1300XT MRE Case of 12 with Heaters

12 complete military-style meals, 6 menus doubled, about 1,300 calories per meal, flameless heater in every bag. Food that needs no kitchen at all: the flood, evacuation, and vehicle layer.

Learn more: Freeze-Dried Food Guide, Bug-Out Bag Guide

MRE Star case of 12 ready-to-eat meals

MRE Star

MRE Star Case of 12 Full Meals (No Heaters)

12 meals, 6 varieties doubled, 13,200 to 15,600 calories per case as stated by the seller. The no-heaters version: cheaper per case, plan a way to warm them or eat them cold.

Learn more: Freeze-Dried Food Guide, Bug-Out Bag Guide

Reliance Aqua-Tainer 7 gallon water container with spigot

Reliance

Reliance Aqua-Tainer 7-Gallon Water Container

The classic rigid 7-gallon jug: hideaway spigot, ergonomic handle, stackable shape. The portable fraction of a home reserve, and the container our water calculator's jug math assumes.

Learn more: Emergency Water Storage, Water Storage Calculator

Sawyer one gallon gravity water filtration system

Sawyer

Sawyer 1-Gallon Gravity Water Filtration System (SP160)

Hang the 1-gallon bladder and gravity does the work: the dual-threaded MINI filter (0.1 micron) is rated by Sawyer to 100,000 gallons and removes 99.99999% of bacteria. Family-scale filtering with no pumping.

Learn more: Water Filters & Purifiers, Make Water Safe in an Emergency

Katadyn Hiker Pro transparent pump water filter

Katadyn

Katadyn Hiker Pro Transparent Microfilter

The field-serviceable pump filter: about a liter a minute, cartridge capacity up to 1,150 liters, filters straight into a bottle or reservoir. For the bag that has to treat water it finds, day after day.

Learn more: Water Filters & Purifiers, Make Water Safe in an Emergency

Aquamira water treatment drops bottles

Aquamira

Aquamira Water Treatment Drops (1 oz)

Chlorine dioxide drops, EPA registered, four-year shelf life, treats up to 30 gallons per 1 oz kit. The virus backup a filter cannot be: filters miss viruses, treatment handles them.

Learn more: Make Water Safe in an Emergency, Water Filters & Purifiers

Potable Aqua water disinfection tablets with PA plus

Potable Aqua

Potable Aqua Drinking Water Tablets with PA+

Germicidal tablets proven effective against Giardia lamblia when used as directed, ready in 35 minutes, with PA+ tablets to neutralize the iodine taste and color. The two-bottle kit that lives in every bag we build.

Learn more: Make Water Safe in an Emergency, Water Filters & Purifiers

Nalgene 32 ounce wide mouth water bottle

Nalgene

Nalgene 32oz Wide Mouth Bottle

The bottle every filter thread assumes: BPA/BPS-free Tritan Renew, leakproof, dishwasher-safe, wide mouth fits most filtration devices and ice. Made in the USA. Buy the bottle your Sawyer screws onto.

Learn more: Water Filters & Purifiers, Emergency Water Storage

CNOC Outdoors Vecto 2 liter collapsible water container

CNOC Outdoors

CNOC Outdoors Vecto 2L Water Container (28mm)

A 2-liter soft container with a slider-sealed wide mouth for scooping, and a 28mm thread that screws straight onto Sawyer Squeeze, Mini, and Micro filters. The gravity bag and dirty-water hauler in one.

Learn more: Water Filters & Purifiers, Emergency Water Storage

Benchmade Bugout folding knife with grey Grivory handle

Benchmade

Benchmade Bugout 535GRY-1 Folding Knife

1.85 ounces, a 0.42-inch slim profile, S30V stainless blade, and the AXIS lock. The everyday-carry folder that disappears in a pocket until the minute it is the only tool you have.

Learn more: Bug-Out Bag Guide, Bug-Out Bag Checklist Builder

Condor Venture 27.5 liter backpack

Condor

Condor Venture Backpack 27.5L

27.5 liters, a padded compartment for a 15-inch laptop, hydration-ready for up to a 3L bladder, detachable waist belt with MOLLE. The mid-size pack that swallows a 72-hour load without looking like a rucksack.

Learn more: Bug-Out Bag Guide, Bug-Out Bag Checklist Builder

BioLite Luci emergency solar lantern

BioLite

BioLite Luci Emergency Solar Lantern

A solar lantern, flashlight, and S.O.S. beacon in 2.8 ounces: five modes including steady red, IP67 waterproof, collapses to 1.25 inches, up to 10 hours per charge, recharges by sun or USB-C. One in every room beats one big light in a closet.

Learn more: Off-Grid Solar Kit Guide, Scenario Checklists

New Millennium Energy Bars - Variety 24

Millennium

New Millennium Energy Bars - Variety 24

24 Millennium energy bars, 2 each of 12 flavors, 5-year shelf life, from SOS Food Lab's own store. The variety case: ration bars people will actually rotate through cars, desks, and bags.

Learn more: Freeze-Dried Food Guide, Bug-Out Bag Guide

SOS Food Lab: 3600 KCAL Bars

SOS Food Lab

SOS Food Lab: 3600 KCAL Bars

Five packs of SOS 3600 kcal ration bars, 9 bars per pack, 5-year shelf life. Coast-Guard-style rations in case quantity: the car, boat, and cabin layer.

Learn more: Freeze-Dried Food Guide, Bug-Out Bag Guide

Mayday 2400 Calorie Food Bar

Mayday

Mayday 2400 Calorie Food Bar

One 2,400-calorie bar block, six 400-calorie servings, 5-year shelf life. The cheapest calories-per-dollar bar on this shelf, for the glove box and the office drawer.

Learn more: Freeze-Dried Food Guide, Bug-Out Bag Guide

SOPAKCO SurePak-12 MRE Case of 12 with Heaters

SOPAKCO

SOPAKCO SurePak-12 MRE Case of 12 with Heaters

12 complete MRE meals with flameless heaters, from SOPAKCO, the packer behind military rations. The no-kitchen case: heat and eat, no water or stove needed beyond the heater's own.

Learn more: Freeze-Dried Food Guide, Bug-Out Bag Guide

Flood checklist

The same tickable list as the scenario checklists page; ticks save on this device and stay in sync between the two pages.

Plan it properly

Products are half the plan. The other half is the sequence: what to do first, what the official guidance says, and the numbers for your household.

Need page reviewed: November 11, 2026.