Storage Wars (2010)

Name: Storage Wars
Genre: Reality-TV
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Dan Dotson, Brandi Passante, Laura Dotson, Darrell Sheets, Barry Weiss

Reality-TV

When rent is not paid on a storage locker for three months in California, the contents can be sold by an auctioneer as a single lot of items in the form of a cash-only auction. The show follows professional buyers who purchase the contents based only on a five-minute inspection of what they can see from the door when it is open. The goal is to turn a profit on the merchandise.

IMDb rating: 6.3 (11,203 votes)
Episode average: 6.7 ↑ +0.4 vs IMDb
Seasons: 17
Status: Still airing
Streaming (US): Hulu · Amazon Prime Video · Disney+
Language: EN
Type: TV series

Rating trend: this show's seasons do not settle into one shape. Rising Shows ranks whole shows by the shape of their rating trend rather than one average score, which is how you find a show that got better rather than a show that started well.

Browse shows by rating shape → Open in Rising Shows app → View on IMDb

Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 17 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2010)

6.99 avg 19 episodes 7.0 → 6.9 22 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	High Noon in the High Desert	7.0	117
2	Railroad Roulette	6.7	89
3	War on the Shore	6.8	86
4	Melee in the Maze	6.9	81
5	The Old Spanish Standoff	7.0	79
6	All Guns to Port	6.8	74
7	Senior Center Showdown	7.0	76
8	Midnight in the Gardena Good and Evil	7.3	76
9	Collector's Last Stand	7.4	74
10	School House Lock	6.8	66
11	Gambler's Last Resort	7.3	71
12	Auction Royale	7.1	66
13	Makings of a Mogul	6.8	64
14	Trouble the Oil	6.8	63
15	Chairman of the Hoard	7.1	62
16	High End Heist	7.0	58
17	Young with the Gun	6.9	53
18	Skullduggery	7.3	62
19	Live and Let Bid	6.9	63

Season 2 (2011)

6.89 avg 33 episodes 6.8 → 6.6 22 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Hang 'Em High Desert	6.8	61
2	Buyers on the Storm	6.6	59
3	Pay the Lady	6.6	51
4	Santa Ana Street Fight	6.6	54
5	Unclaimed Baggage	7.1	53
6	Enemy of the Enemy	7.0	62
7	Fire in the Hole	7.1	54
8	San Burrito	7.1	49
9	Tanks for the Memories	7.0	50
10	Land of the Loss	6.9	49
11	Almost the Greatest Show on Earth	7.2	44
12	Bowling for Dollars	6.9	52
13	Get Him to the Mayan	7.0	44
14	Fu Dog Day Afternoon	7.0	47
15	I'm the New Mogul	7.2	47
16	Driving Miss Barry	7.2	54
17	Winner Winner Chicken Dinner	6.9	50
18	Auction Sesame	6.6	41
19	Stairway to Hemet	7.0	49
20	Scoot-A-Toot, Toot	6.9	49
21	The Empire Strikes Out	6.8	49
22	Make It Rain, Girl	6.9	51
23	Smoke 'Em If You Find 'Em	6.9	49
24	The Drone Wars	7.2	48
25	Brandi's First Time	7.0	48
26	Hooray for Hollyweird	6.6	50
27	Don't Bid So Close to Me	7.1	48
28	Not Your Average Bear	6.7	49
29	Hook, Line and Sucker	7.0	46
30	Operation Hobo	6.7	49
31	Blame It on the Rain	6.5	46
32	Viva La San Francisco	6.8	47
33	Highland Anxiety	6.6	50

Season 3 (2012)

6.68 avg 30 episodes 6.5 → 6.5 22 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Third Eye of the Tiger	6.5	44
2	May the Vaults Be with You	6.8	49
3	The Iceman Carveth	6.8	44
4	Here's Looking at You, Kenny	6.6	41
5	A Civil Accordion	6.6	38
6	More Like Wrong Beach	6.9	42
7	All's Fair in Storage and Wars	6.4	40
8	The Fast and the Curious	6.7	43
9	From Russia with Chucks	6.6	39
10	The Full Monty-Bello	6.8	39
11	Dial C for Chupacabra	6.6	38
12	The Ship Just Hit the Sand	6.3	38
13	Willkommen to the Dollhouse	6.8	39
14	The Yup Stops Here	7.1	37
15	Buy, Buy Birdie	6.7	34
16	The Return of San Burrito	6.7	35
17	There's Something About Barry	6.5	34
18	Dr. Strangebid	6.7	36
19	Sheets and Geeks	7.0	38
20	No Bid for the Weary	6.9	42
21	Straight Into Compton: Biddaz with Attitude	6.5	35
22	The Young and the Reckless	6.3	39
23	Jurassic Bark	6.4	42
24	A Tale of Two Jackets	7.0	42
25	Tustin, Bee Have a Problem	6.7	43
26	Portrait of the Gambler	6.9	37
27	The Big Boy vs. The Heavyweight	6.9	33
28	The Kook, the Chief, His Son, and the Brothers	6.6	34
29	Nobody's Vault But Mine	6.7	34
30	Still Nobody's Vault But Mine	6.5	37

Season 4 (2013)

6.65 avg 22 episodes 6.5 → 6.8 22 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Auctioning for Dummies	6.5	51
2	Breathalyze This	6.6	38
3	All's Well That Urns Well	6.4	33
4	The PA Stays in the Picture	6.6	34
5	A Time to Kiln	6.9	32
6	Like a Kung Pao Cowboy	6.4	31
7	Oysters on the Half Plate	6.7	36
8	The Monster Hash	6.4	34
9	Old Tricks, New Treats	6.8	36
10	The Shrining	6.6	36
11	Orange You Glad Dan Sold It Again?	6.4	34
12	Barry's Angels	7.1	42
13	The French Job	6.5	33
14	That's My Jerry!	6.7	38
15	This Lamp's for You	6.8	38
16	There's No Place Like Homeland	6.7	37
17	Total Wine Domination	6.7	34
18	The Storage Buyer in You	6.5	38
19	Fear and Loathing in Placentia	6.5	37
20	Barry Doubtfire	6.9	37
21	Battle of the Brows	6.9	36
22	Super Bros. Shuffle	6.8	38

Season 5 (2014)

6.54 avg 29 episodes 6.8 → 6.3 21 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Flight of the Gambler	6.8	34
2	The Hills Have Buys	6.7	35
3	Nerds of the Round Table	6.9	35
4	Operation: Intimidation	7.0	35
5	The Return of the King of Montebello	7.0	35
6	For a Good Time Call... Ivy	6.2	33
7	LBC U LTR	6.3	35
8	Masters of Manipulation	6.6	35
9	Boom Goes the Dynamite?	6.9	36
10	Zen Masters of the Universe	6.8	35
11	Darrell Sheets the Bed	6.7	37
12	The Donut Effect	6.6	35
13	The Gutfather	6.7	38
14	Grin and Barry It	6.2	32
15	The Adventures of Max Profit	6.9	35
16	Ghosts Don't Need Money	6.7	19
17	Pay the Dan	6.4	34
18	The Robot Cowboy	6.8	20
19	It's Bring Your Kids to Work Day	6.5	33
20	The Mom Factor	6.4	31
21	The Man in Black Is Back... In Black	6.1	33
22	The Return of the Mogul's Return!	6.7	40
23	Bunny Owns This Town	6.2	39
24	Bowling for Brandi	6.1	36
25	Deep in the Heart of Upland	6.5	38
26	The Daneurysm	5.5	39
27	The Education of Miss Profit	6.4	36
28	Bid Strong and Prosper	6.7	36
29	Hestered in the Highlands	6.3	35

Season 6 (2014)

6.92 avg 18 episodes 6.7 → 7.3 23 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Auction Boogaloo	6.7	38
2	My Little Brony	6.8	36
3	Locktoberfest	6.9	34
4	The Emperor of El Monte	6.8	34
5	Up the Ante in El Monte	7.0	32
6	All Along the Swatchtower	7.1	34
7	A San Marcos Mitzvah	7.0	25
8	A Very Miraculous Storage Wars Christmas	7.4	35
9	North Hollywood Hustle	6.6	30
10	Who Let the Daves Out	6.8	20
11	Gambler of Thrones	6.7	18
12	Once Upon a Locker in the West	7.0	29
13	Locker Mountain High	6.8	28
14	Fontan-o-rama	6.8	28
15	Mr. Nezhoda's Opus	7.1	32
16	Leader of the Packed	6.6	31
17	Lock & Roll	7.1	18
18	Too Fast, Too Curious	7.3	22

Season 7 (2015)

6.59 avg 13 episodes 6.5 → 6.6 21 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Padian, P.I.	6.5	32
2	The Thrill of a Kitty and the Agony of Smoked Meat	6.6	33
3	The Sweet Sniff of Success	6.7	30
4	There Will Be Blood Money	6.8	31
5	It's All Smoke and Mirrors	6.3	24
6	Packed, Stacked and All... Trash?	6.6	22
7	Bozek Is My Spirit Animal	6.7	29
8	What Cowboy Dreams May Come	6.3	25
9	Too Many Cooks in the Locker	6.7	22
10	Tinseltown Tussle	6.5	32
11	Ivy for the Win	6.7	25
12	High Stakes and Low Blows	6.7	27
13	Valley of the Hauls	6.6	32

Season 8 (2015)

6.39 avg 20 episodes 6.3 → 6.3 21 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	They'll Always Have Perris	6.3	36
2	Some Like It Hotter	6.5	30
3	Lock the Vote	6.7	28
4	All Bid and No Bite	6.4	25
5	Just Deserts	5.9	26
6	Auctions and Allies	5.9	28
7	Palm Springs Throwdown	6.7	37
8	Young Gun, Old Tricks	6.3	27
9	The School of Hard Knock-Knocks	6.4	31
10	An Auction Too Far	6.2	27
11	Downtown Showdown	6.6	28
12	Mo' Money, Mo' Valley	6.4	31
13	Lock, Stock and One Smoking Darrell	6.1	27
14	Rene Abides	6.4	28
15	Last.Mattress.Standing	7.1	17
16	Mayor of Margarita-ville	6.4	28
17	Auctions Away	6.4	24
18	Buys and Dolls	6.4	25
19	There's No Business Like Snow Business	6.4	26
20	The World According to Ivy	6.3	28

Season 9 (2016)

6.58 avg 15 episodes 6.5 → 6.6 21 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Mexican Grand Off	6.5	37
2	From Dust 'Til Dawn	6.6	36
3	Middle-Aged Mutant Ninja Buyers	6.6	31
4	Downtown Lockers and Uptown Dreams	6.3	34
5	Dreams of Cookies and Cream	6.5	29
6	Who Wet the Sheets?	6.4	31
7	Santa Ana Surprise	6.5	30
8	High Scores in Arcadia	6.6	29
9	The Lion of Lancaster	6.5	31
10	Mary's Big Score	6.8	31
11	Auctions Arriba!	6.5	29
12	The One with Mary and Allee	6.6	32
13	Sundown Showdown	6.9	30
14	Father Bids Best	6.8	31
15	The Fat Lady Is Warming Up	6.6	29

Season 10 (2017)

6.45 avg 25 episodes 6.6 → 6.7 21 min avg

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Stakes, Buys and Video Games	6.6	34
2	Goodness, Gracious, Great Coats of Fire	6.4	29
3	Bright Lights, Big Biddies	6.3	32
4	The Nutty Appraiser	5.9	29
5	Who Wants to Be a Mil-li-NER?	6.2	30
6	I Learned It from Watching You!	6.2	31
7	Quoth the Kenny: Kumbaya!	6.9	35
8	Pop, Lock & Auction	6.1	28
9	Happiness Is a Warm Laser Gun	5.9	27
10	That's the Way the Terra Cotta Crumbles	6.6	28
11	Granny Get You Gun	6.8	27
12	Ole/GYN	6.7	26
13	Value of the Dolls	5.9	23
14	You Win Some, You Luge Some	5.7	24
15	L. Ron YUUUPer	6.4	28
16	Good MOURNING, Arcadia!	6.3	26
17	Drawn & Quartered	7.0	28
18	Hare Today, Gun Tomorrow	7.1	28
19	The Clamper Caper	6.6	26
20	Shave and a Haircut: Two Bids	6.5	23
21	Vamos a Placentia	7.1	26
22	Mutt-erial Girl	6.7	19
23	Me, Myself and Ivy	6.4	21
24	666: The Sign of the Profit	6.3	21
25	Tour de Chance	6.7	17

Season 11 (2017)

6.76 avg 29 episodes 5.7 → 6.6 20 min avg

Slow burn

Season 11 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Wild Wild Vests	5.7	27
2	Out of the Frying Pan AM	5.4	23
3	Season of the Kitsch	6.2	26
4	A Metamorphic Layer of True Romanticism	6.3	30
5	Some Don't Like It Hot	6.4	26
6	Kumba-YUUUP!	6.6	27
7	Vegas Shrugged	6.5	22
8	Assassin's Greed	7.5	25
9	A Fistful of Dollar	6.5	23
10	One Girl's Trinket is Another Man's Treasure	6.5	23
11	Buyerina	6.6	22
12	Preaching to the Buyer	6.6	23
13	Some Mo' Mr. Nice Guy	6.6	22
14	Top Meat and Greet	6.6	23
15	Whiskers and Lies	7.3	24
16	Crate Balls of Fire	7.5	25
17	Ivy Gets the Runaround	7.4	19
18	Fa-La-La-Lala, La-La-La-Locker!	6.9	18
19	The Way of the YUUUP!	7.3	20
20	Goat Tell It on the Mountain	7.5	25
21	Ivy: The Pro-fession-ale	6.5	20
22	Mary's RE-finds	6.8	21
23	Crickets and Wickets	6.9	22
24	Quality Bro Chime	6.7	23
25	And Mary Ran Away with the Spoon	6.8	21
26	Indiana Ivy and the Temple of Phlegm	6.7	21
27	Tour de Van Nys	7.2	22
28	Bo-ZAK That Whip!	7.8	30
29	We Don't Use the 'S' Word Around Here	6.6	22

Season 12 (2018)

6.89 avg 16 episodes 7.0 → 7.1 20 min avg

Season 12 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Jenny, The Baker, The Prosthetics Maker	7.0	32
2	Weekend at Barry's	6.8	27
3	A Sale of Two Cities	6.8	21
4	They Shoe Horses, Don't They?	6.9	22
5	Talkin' in Cody	6.7	24
6	Om Sweet Om	7.2	22
7	Grandma's Havoc	7.1	19
8	Cloudy with a Chance of Profit	6.9	20
9	Let's Give 'Em Something to Tonka About	6.7	22
10	Fowl Play	6.9	22
11	What Came First: the Chicken or the Auction?	6.8	20
12	The Wind Beneath Our Bids	7.1	28
13	Not All That Glitters Is Gourd	6.5	22
14	Mistress of the Snark	6.8	20
15	Nowhere to Formaldehyde	7.0	22
16	Drama in the LBC	7.1	23

Season 13 (2021)

6.58 avg 14 episodes 5.5 → 7.1 20 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 13 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Santanas Are Coming to Town	5.5	25
2	Bits and Pizzas	5.9	17
3	Let's Make a Dill!	6.6	17
4	Mirro, Mirro, on the Floor	6.4	18
5	Rules #1	6.4	19
6	Queen-baya!	6.2	19
7	Game of Groans: Whittier Is Coming	7.3	19
8	Breaking Bread	6.7	20
9	Dr. D and the Mystery Machines	6.6	18
10	A Plane Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	6.5	18
12	Let My Lockers Go	6.9	14
16	She Bidded Me with Science!	7.4	17
27	Come and Knock on Our Locker	6.6	15
28	Nothing is Impossible	7.1	16

Season 14 (2021)

6.55 avg 11 episodes 6.4 → 6.4 21 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 14 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Episode #14.1	6.4	20
2	Piles To Go Before I Keep	6.9	17
3	In Pain in the Membrance	6.5	17
4	How the West Covina Was Won	6.5	16
5	King of Orange Chicken	6.5	15
7	Reign or Shine	6.2	19
13	Two for the price of Dust	6.3	16
14	It's A Safe Time to Get Lit	7.2	21
30	The King of Montebowl-o	6.8	7
31	Here Comes the Calvin-ry!	6.4	7
33	Children of the Cornbread	6.4	7

Season 15 (2023)

6.56 avg 5 episodes 7.1 → 6.8 20 min avg

U-shaped

Season 15 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	All Hail, King Brandi: The Rule-Her of West Covina	7.1	10
5	I Love Lupe	6.6	9
15	Strings and Beans	5.8	7
16	Pin Up or Shut Up	6.5	8
18	Does a Bear Bid in the Woods?	6.8	10

Season 16 (2025)

6.66 avg 7 episodes 7.0 → 7.8 42 min avg

Season 16 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Return of the Return of San Burrito	7.0	12
2	One Man's Trash... Is Lisa's Trash	6.4	9
3	Weathering Sights	6.4	9
4	YUUUPocalypse Now!	5.9	10
5	Cheesy Does It!	6.6	9
9	Yes We Cam!	6.5	8
10	I'm in a Canyon Country State of Mind	7.8	7

Season 17 (2026)

6.53 avg 4 episodes Still airing 6.8 → 6.4 42 min avg

Season 17 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	All About Steve	6.8	10
2	There's No River in Riverside!	6.7	8
3	Million Dollar Brandi	6.2	8
4	Not Mary's First Rodeo	6.4	7