Category: Graphic

SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

Today’s graphic: Percent of Population without Health Insurance, by County (U.S.). (Graphic courtesy of Reddit and ZipCrawl.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable.     From the ZipCrawl website: NOTE: Gray indicates insufficient data or a suppressed estimate. Explore the geographic distribution of uninsured Americans across every county in the United States. This map traces the consequences of Medicaid expansion decisions, immigration patterns, and labor market structures – revealing how a single state policy choice created dramatic coverage disparities at state borders, and how the Texas-Mexico corridor has become the uninsured capital of the developed world. JWR Adds:  Illegal immigration is …


SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

Today’s graphic: Firewood Supply Versus Demand. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit. Map by Casey Peterson, based on 2021 PRISM  OSU climate data.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable.         — From the Reddit site: Heating demand is approximated using a Heating Degree Day proxy derived from PRISM 30-year mean annual temperature. The formula max(0, (18.3 – Tmean) * 365) estimates how much heating a location needs annually – 18.3°C (65°F) is the standard base temperature below which buildings require heating. Higher values mean colder climates with greater heating needs. This is a simplified annual approximation; true HDD uses daily …


SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

  Today’s graphic: The United States of WalMart. In this map, each polygon contains exactly one Walmart store and represents the area closer to that store than any other. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) JWR’s Comments:  My family lives in the American Redoubt, where the population density is quite low, and the WalMart density is correspondingly low.  Hence, the large polygons seen in the Intermountain West.  It is a two-hour drive to the nearest WalMart from the Rawles Ranch. The thumbnail below is click-expandable.       — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or …



SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

Today’s graphic: The United States total fertility rate (# of children per woman) in the year 2025, by state. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable.         — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted.


SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week 

Today’s graphic: Drug overdose deaths in the US per 100,000 people, by state, based on 2023 data. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable.         — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted.


SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

Today’s graphic: Countries from which the U.S. resident visa applications will be paused, starting January 21, 2026. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) News Link: Visa processing from 75 countries will be paused, citing the Donald Trump administration’s desire to “end the abuse of America’s immigration system by those who would extract wealth from the American people.” The thumbnail below is click-expandable.     — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted.


SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week 

Today’s graphic: A map showing recent U.S. Internal Migration — The Geography of Choice. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) Note that majority of the states that are gaining population are conservative “Red” states.  Preppers moving to the American Redoubt, Texas, The Ozarks, and to the Cumberland Plateau undoubtedly were a contributing factor in these population shifts. The thumbnail below is click-expandable.       — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted.


SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

Today’s graphic: A map showing the Overlap of the Schengen Area and the Eurozone, as of January, 2026. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable.           — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted.



SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

Today’s graphic: The geographic population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable.           — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted.


SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

Today’s graphic: The 3.33% land where half of the US population lives. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) Note that there is no high-density blue in The American Redoubt region or in the Dakotas. The thumbnail below is click-expandable.       — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted.


SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

Today’s graphic:  An Aurora Borealis display photographed on December 5, 2025 by Vince Medina of North Pole, Alaska. (Posted with permission.) The thumbnails below are click-expandable.             — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted.



SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

Today’s graphic:  50 States With Equal-Population. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) JWR’s Comment: This certainly illustrates the low population density of The American Redoubt. The thumbnail below is click-expandable.       — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted.