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Emergency Water

Fail

Demand is soft, at -27.9% this quarter, so Emergency Water is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 4,985 of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · −1 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$347K/yr270K searches / yr
90-day growth
-27.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
66%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 49 sellers

Flapen Score

Emergency Water against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Emergency Water is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Emergency Water market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Emergency Water 270K times last year and spent an estimated $347K. The top 5 brands take 79% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Oct. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

3.8% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 270K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 3.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -27.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $347K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
270K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-27.9%
Conversion, latest week
3.8%
Market size, estimated
$347Ka year
Peak month
October2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
emergency water136K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $33.52.

Listings sell for $33.52 on average, from $8.99 to $69.24. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $33.52 that is $25K to $34K a year per listing.

Average price
$33.52inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$8.99–$69.24
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
13K–15K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$25K–$34K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

81% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 88% ship with Prime. On an average day, 6.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #215 within Emergency Kits & Supplies. It carries 10,858 reviews at 4.53 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
81%
Prime listings
88%
Out of stock, average day
6.9%
Average rank
#215in Emergency Kits & Supplies
Average rating
4.53 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
10,858per listing
Listings tracked
16

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 1 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 62 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
62 months

Products

Top Emergency Water products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 66% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$35K$69K$104K$139K101001K10K100K1.0M Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

13 falling

Sellers

49

Top-5 brand share

79%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

66%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

16%

  • Datrex56%
  • AquA Emergency7%
  • Aqua Emergency6%
  • Aquatabs5%
  • LifeStraw5%
  • READY H2O4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 16%)

Demand

Emergency Water search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

15K10KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Emergency Water search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • emergency water136K/yr
  • emergency water pouches32K/yr
  • survival water20K/yr
  • emergency drinking water16K/yr
  • blue can water12K/yr
  • emergency drinking water pouches7K/yr
  • blue can water 50 year shelf life5K/yr
  • water survival4K/yr
  • datrex emergency water pouches2K/yr
  • emergency water 50 year shelf life5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Emergency Water

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

19%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
21%of negative reviews mention “Value For Money”
0.8%of orders come back
“These are pretty expensive for the basis of what you're buying”
A buyer, on “Value For Money”21% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Emergency Water questions

Answered from the same tracked data.