TLDR: Homestead Rescue is currently airing its fourteenth season on Discovery Channel, with Marty, Misty, and Matt Raney celebrating their 100th rescue in May 2026.
The show remains one of the most authentic and practically grounded reality programs on television, built around a family that has lived off the grid since before the cameras arrived.
Most people who watch Homestead Rescue know three members of the Raney family. The ones who know the show well know there are actually six, and the three who never appear on camera are arguably the most interesting.
Homestead Rescue premiered on the Discovery Channel on June 18, 2016, and has been running ever since. The format is simple: patriarch Marty Raney, his daughter Misty, and his son Matt travel to failing off-grid homesteads across the United States, assess what is broken, and fix it within ten days.
At the end of each episode, the family either commits to staying or packs up and returns to civilization.
As of mid-2026 the show is in its fourteenth season. On May 5, 2026, the Raneys celebrated their 100th documented rescue with a special retrospective episode titled “Hundred Homestead Highway.”
Season 14 continues airing weekly on Discovery and is available on Max, Discovery+, Prime Video, and Apple TV.
Marty Raney: The Builder
At 69, Marty Raney remains the structural authority of the show and its most recognizable face. He is simultaneously managing his 40-acre Hatcher Pass homestead in Palmer, Alaska, running his custom construction company Alaska Stone and Log, hosting guests at his handcrafted Airbnb properties, and filming Season 14.
The pace has not slowed significantly despite a severe fall during the Raney Ranch construction that temporarily limited his mobility and accelerated the family’s succession planning.
In Season 14, he has led some of the most technically demanding rescues of the show’s run. That includes a high-altitude winterization build in Colorado at over 9,000 feet and a structural stabilization of two simultaneously failing cabins in Stockton, Missouri.
When Marty was forced to leave the California wildfire episode early, Misty and Matt stepped up and completed the rescue independently. It is exactly the succession dynamic the family has been quietly building toward.
His net worth is estimated at approximately $1.2 million, built across four decades of construction, television, and real estate.
Misty Raney Bilodeau: The Farmer
Misty continues to split her year between Hatcher Pass, Alaska, and a tropical farmstead in Kauai, Hawaii. In Season 14 she has taken on an expanded leadership role, stepping in to lead rescues independently when Marty has been pulled away.
Her husband Maciah is now a regular on-screen build crew member. Their son Gauge has made occasional appearances alongside her on builds.
The most significant storyline of Season 14 involves her personally. Episode 8, “Raney S.O.S.,” which aired June 23, 2026, documented catastrophic flash floods that devastated her own Kauai farmstead.
The entire Raney family traveled to the island to execute what amounted to a rescue of the rescuers’ own property, fusing Alaskan cold-weather structural techniques with Pacific island agricultural methods. It is one of the few times the show has turned the camera entirely on the Raneys themselves.
Her net worth is estimated between $300,000 and $500,000.
Matt Raney: The Hunter
Matt Raney lives off the grid in Wasilla, Alaska, where he and his wife Katie are building their permanent family home on the Hatcher Pass property.
Their son Indy and daughter Ruby, born August 21, 2021, are being raised in the same hands-on tradition that defined Matt’s own childhood.
In Season 14, Matt has taken on increasing structural responsibility as Marty’s physical workload has been managed more carefully.
His nephew by marriage, Owen Bird, has become a regular build crew presence, working alongside Matt on the heavy construction elements of each rescue. The two have developed an effective working dynamic that points toward how the show will operate as the next generation steps up.
Matt’s net worth is estimated between $200,000 and $300,000.
Mollee Raney: The Quiet Anchor
Mollee Roestel Raney married Marty in 1974 and has been his partner through five decades of extreme off-grid life in Alaska. She rarely appears on Homestead Rescue, preferring to remain off-camera while her family films across the country.
She has appeared on the spin-off Homestead Rescue: Raney Ranch, which documents the construction of the family’s multi-generational compound in Hatcher Pass.
Marty consistently credits his children’s physical and mental resilience to her tough, uncompromising standards. She is the least-covered subject in a family that generates enormous public curiosity, and fan interest in her remains consistently high despite her deliberate absence from the screen.
The Two Raneys Nobody Talks About
Marty and Mollee have four children. Two of them are on television. The other two are leading arguably more remarkable lives off-camera.
Melanee Raney, the oldest child, was born during an emergency when Mollee went into breach labor at their remote Haines homestead, 100 miles from the nearest medical facility, and had to be evacuated by bush plane to Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory, making Melanee a Canadian citizen by birth.
She now operates Chugach Adventures, a fully off-grid rafting and guiding enterprise in Girdwood, Alaska, accessible exclusively via the Alaska Railroad and catering to high-end wilderness tourists.
Miles Raney, the oldest son, has completed over 200,000 kilometers of solo off-road mountain biking across more than 100 countries, making him one of the most traveled solo bicyclists in the world.
He is also a trained Denali climbing guide and a professional sound coordinator for mountaineering films.
He follows a strict vegan lifestyle but remains a highly skilled subsistence hunter who handles moose and caribou butchering for the family’s winter food supply. He lives entirely away from the television cameras.
Season 14 at a Glance
Season 14 premiered May 5, 2026, and is currently airing on Discovery Channel on Tuesdays at 8:00 PM ET.
Episodes have taken the Raneys to California wildfire country, the Colorado Rockies at over 9,000 feet, West Virginia, Louisiana bayou country, New Mexico adobe restoration, and Kauai.
The season includes multiple “Raney Returns” re-rescue episodes, including a double cabin stabilization in Stockton, Missouri, and a return to a Louisiana bayou property.
The what happened to the homesteaders after the cameras left is one of the most searched questions about the show, and the answer varies considerably depending on the family.
Is Homestead Rescue still on in 2026?
Yes. Homestead Rescue is currently airing its fourteenth season on Discovery Channel in 2026, with new episodes broadcasting on Tuesdays at 8:00 PM ET. The show celebrated its 100th rescue on May 5, 2026, with a special retrospective episode. It streams on Max, Discovery+, Prime Video, and Apple TV.
Where does the Raney family live?
Marty Raney and his wife Mollee live on a 40-acre homestead in Hatcher Pass, near Palmer, Alaska, accessible only by crossing a Class IV river. Misty and Maciah Bilodeau split their year between a hand-built log cabin in Hatcher Pass and a farmstead in Kauai, Hawaii. Matt Raney lives off the grid in Wasilla, Alaska, where he and his wife Katie are building their permanent home on the family property.
Who is Owen Bird on Homestead Rescue?
Owen Bird is Matt Raney’s nephew by marriage, through Matt’s wife Katie and her late father Michael L. Bird. Owen joined the show’s build crew in recent seasons and has become a regular on-screen presence, working directly on heavy construction projects under Matt and Marty’s supervision.
Does Marty Raney have other children besides Misty and Matt?
Yes. Marty and Mollee Raney have four children. Melanee, the oldest, runs Chugach Adventures, a fully off-grid wilderness rafting operation in Girdwood, Alaska, accessible only by the Alaska Railroad. Miles, the oldest son, has completed over 200,000 kilometers of solo mountain biking across more than 100 countries and is also a Denali climbing guide and professional mountaineering sound coordinator. Neither Melanee nor Miles appears on the television show.
What is Alaska Stone and Log?
Alaska Stone and Log is Marty Raney’s custom construction company, founded in 1982. It specializes in heavy masonry and timber framing using locally quarried stone and hand-peeled logs. The business served as the hands-on apprenticeship for all four Raney children, who grew up working on builds with their father. It remains active alongside Marty’s television career.
Is Homestead Rescue fake?
The physical structures built on the show are real and functional, but the production uses 15 to 30 on-site crew members and local contractors hired by Raw TV to assist with builds. The Raneys provide genuine expertise but do not perform all the work alone. Timeline compression and narrative staging are standard parts of the production. The full breakdown of what is real and what is structured is covered in our dedicated piece on how the show actually works.
