Almost 20 million Americans, or about 7 percent of all households, now identify as “preppers,” based on a recent analysis of FEMA data. According to the results of last year’s National Household Survey on Disaster Preparedness, 57 percent of Americans had taken three or more steps to prepare for disaster. There had been a 15 percent increase in the share of respondents who “assembled or updated supplies” from the year before, FEMA found.

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