How Many Seasons of Alone Are There?

The short answer depends on what you count as "Alone." If you mean the flagship US show, there are 13 seasons, with the newest currently airing. Add the Australian version and the two spin-offs and the total climbs higher. Here is the full accounting, drawn from our season guides.

How many seasons of Alone are there in total?

Branch	Seasons	Status
Alone (US)	13	Seasons 1 to 12 complete, season 13 airing
Alone Australia	4	Seasons 1 to 3 complete, season 4 announced
Alone: Frozen	1	Complete (2022 spin-off)
Alone: The Skills Challenge	1	Complete (2022 spin-off)

Counted strictly, that is 13 numbered US seasons plus 4 Australian seasons plus 2 spin-offs, for 19 season-length releases in the normalized data, spanning 187 contestants once you add up every cast. The reason "how many seasons" trips people up is the mix of numbered and un-numbered entries. A viewer who has watched "every season" of the US show has still not seen Frozen or the Skills Challenge, and someone who counts only numbered seasons lands on 17 rather than 19. Both answers are defensible, which is exactly why the question keeps coming up. And the number is about to move again: once season 13 wraps and Alone Australia's fourth season finishes its run, the franchise total reaches 19 completed releases with more presumably to come.

Every US season at a glance

The US show is the backbone of the franchise, and its 13 seasons break down like this. No winners are named here, so the table is safe to read mid-binge; the winners page has the spoilers when you want them.

Season	Subtitle	Premiere	Location
1	none	June 2015	Northern Vancouver Island, Canada
2	none	April 2016	Northern Vancouver Island, Canada
3	Patagonia	December 2016	Patagonia, Argentina
4	Lost & Found	June 2017	Vancouver Island, Canada (team season)
5	Redemption	June 2018	Khonin Nuga valley, Mongolia
6	The Arctic	June 2019	Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories
7	Million Dollar Challenge	June 2020	Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories
8	Grizzly Mountain	June 2021	Chilko Lake, British Columbia
9	Labrador	May 2022	Big River, northern Labrador
10	Saskatchewan	June 2023	Reindeer Lake, Saskatchewan
11	Arctic Circle	June 2024	Mackenzie River Delta, Northwest Territories
12	Africa	June 2025	Great Karoo desert, South Africa
13	World Championship	June 2026	Richardson Mountains, Northwest Territories

A few patterns jump out. Nine of the 13 seasons filmed in Canada, and the show did not leave Vancouver Island until season 3. Season 4 is the format outlier (contestants competed in pairs), season 7 changed the goal to a fixed 100-day threshold with a $1,000,000 prize, and season 12 was the first desert season. Season 13, subtitled the World Championship, premiered June 17, 2026 and is on the air as I write this, so I am making no claims about its outcome here.

How many episodes of Alone are there?

Adding up the completed seasons and spin-offs in our data: 135 episodes across US seasons 1 to 12, 33 across the three completed Alone Australia seasons, 8 for Frozen, and 12 for The Skills Challenge. That is 188 completed episodes, with season 13 adding more as it airs. Season lengths have stayed remarkably stable, between 10 and 13 episodes every time.

The two spin-offs

The spin-offs are easy to overlook because neither is a numbered season. Alone: Frozen (2022) brought back six past US contestants for a winter run on Labrador's North Atlantic coast with a fixed 50-day cap. Alone: The Skills Challenge (also 2022) is a 12-episode head-to-head bushcraft competition among seven alumni, with no survival-duration element and no cash prize; contestants built on their own home turf across the US rather than at a single filming site. Both are part of the franchise, but neither follows the standard last-person-standing structure, which is why they sit outside the numbered seasons.

How many seasons of Alone Australia are there?

Four, counting the announced one. The Australian version is a full separate series, not a spin-off. Three seasons have finished, all with an AUD $250,000 prize, and a fourth is scheduled to premiere July 15, 2026, set in Sápmi inside the Arctic Circle in Finland, the franchise's first European location. One quirk: season 2 was filmed in Fiordland, New Zealand, despite the Australian branding, so "Australia" describes the production, not always the location. Our locations overview maps every filming site across both series.

Which season should you watch first?

If you are new, season 1 remains the natural starting point: it establishes the format, the self-filming, and the tap-out mechanics that every later season assumes you understand. From there the franchise splits by taste. Viewers who want the purest endurance drama tend toward the long-run seasons like 3 and 11; viewers who want format experiments have season 4's pairs, season 7's fixed 100-day target, and season 12's desert. The show also has a strong sense of place, and the location is half the story every season, which is why we keep a full filming-locations overview alongside the season guides. Release cadence is easy to remember, too: since 2015 the US show has premiered roughly once a year, usually in late May or June, with season 2's April start and season 3's December launch the only exceptions.

Where to watch each one

Availability shifts by region and over time, so I keep the current details on our where-to-watch page rather than freezing them here. In broad strokes, as of this writing: the US seasons air on History (History Channel) and stream through History's own platforms and the usual digital storefronts; Alone Australia airs on SBS in Australia and reaches other markets through streaming partners; and the two spin-offs sit alongside the US seasons on History's platforms. Because rights and catalog placement change, treat any specific service as a starting point and confirm on where to watch for your region.

If you are deciding where to start rather than what is streaming, the numbered US seasons are the natural entry point, and each season page has the cast, location, and outcome. For everything else the format does not explain on its own, our FAQ covers the recurring questions.