How Can You Be Sure Its Time To Bug Out?

Bugging out is the most debated and talked about topic in the preparedness community today. Many of the top prepper authors advocate developing a bugging out plan and making a bugout bag as two of the very first items on your new prepper “to-do” list. Although I think the priority or importance of the classic wilderness survival bugout bag is debatable, I do think having a bugout plan is extremely important.

When new preppers first sit down and try to make a realistic bugout plan there’s one question that ALWAYS comes up:

“How do I know when it’s time to bug out?”

Even though there are going to be some small differences in this answer depending on your level of preparedness, there are a handful of key points that will be common for everyone to determine if it is time to bug out. These are not hard and fast bug out “rules”, however these are the indicators that I personally use to determine whether a bugout is necessary or not and can be a good starting point for your bugout plan.

Inability to communicate with others

In today’s modern world our loved ones and family members are much more spread out than they used to be. Even families and friends that see each other regularly usually don’t live in the same immediate area, let alone household. Although this is a provision of bugging out that can be debated, I personally think that lacking the ability to communicate with loved ones could be a cause for bugging out in a serious disaster, regardless of how well set up your bug-in location may be.

If you have the ability to use off-grid communication methods this could easily be mitigated or you could plan on having your family bug-in together should a serious disaster hit. Either way, for me personally, I could easily weather most bug-in situationw on my own with my immediate family, but not knowing how the rest of my family and friends are faring would be torture. If you don’t have a way to bring people together or at least keep in communication with them this may be a reason for you to bug out.

Bug-in location compromised or otherwise unsafe
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