Recalls involving outdoor grills, smokers, fire pits, patio heaters, fireplaces, and wood or pellet stoves.
The largest product type here is grill recalls: 65 of the 140 notices. The grill recall list has every one, with a lookup of the model numbers they name.
Components on the recalled patio heaters can malfunction, causing gas to be released, posing a risk of serious injury or death from fire and burn hazards.
The fireplace's lava rocks can ignite and explode when heated in the propane insert, posing a risk of serious injury or death from burn and fire hazards.
Small metal wire bristles can detach from the brushes and stick to the grill or food, posing an ingestion hazard and risk of serious internal injuries that could require surgery.
Use of the fire pits can result in uncontrolled pool fires where flames burn across the surface of pooled or spilled alcohol, as well as flame jetting from fuel containers, resulting in serious or fatal burns.
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The ethanol fuel bottles violate the federal safety standard for portable fuel containers because they lack flame mitigation devices required by the Portable Fuel Container Safety Act, posing a deadly risk of flash fire. The fuel containers also fail to meet the federal safety regulation for deceptive disclaimers required by the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA) because they claim the contents are "Non-Toxic."
The recalled fuel containers violate the mandatory safety standards for portable fuel containers because they lack flame mitigation devices required under the Portable Fuel Container Safety Act, posing a deadly risk of flash fire.
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Hongyaodekejiyouxiangongsi, dba online seller Wilteexs
The ethanol fuel bottles violate the federal safety standard for portable fuel containers because they lack flame mitigation devices required by the Portable Fuel Container Safety Act, posing a deadly risk of flash fire. The fuel containers also fail to meet the federal safety regulation for deceptive disclaimers required by the Federal Hazardous Substances Act because they claim the contents are "Non Toxic".
Alcohol fuel can splash or leak out of the fire pit reservoir during use and/or ignition, causing a flash fire that can spread and create larger hotter flames that can escape the unit, presenting risk of serious burn injury from flame jetting and fire hazards.
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Colsen Fire Pits
Alcohol flames can be invisible and lead to flame jetting when refilling the fire pit reservoir. Flame jetting is a serious event that can occur while pouring alcohol, when fire flashes back to the alcohol container and suddenly propels burning alcohol out of the container and onto people nearby. Alcohol can also splash, spill or leak out of the fire pit reservoir during use, causing a flash fire that can spread and create larger hotter flames, that can escape the unit. Use of the recalled fire pits can lead to injury quickly and unexpectedly, causing burns in less than one second, that can be serious and deadly.
The smokers can leak electrical current during use, posing an electric shock hazard.
Traeger Pellet Grills
The burner control knob can be incorrectly labeled, which can result in the grill being unintentionally left on, posing a fire hazard.
Twin-Star International
The electric fireplaces can overheat, posing a fire hazard.
Counted across all 140 notices on file as of October 31, 2026. Each line says how many notices it rests on.
Lowe's (15), Amazon (11), The Home Depot (10), Walmart (6), and Sears (4) are the stores named most often in the 119 notices that say where the products were sold. 31 of the 119 notices mention online sales.
The 115 notices that give a price range from $1 to $9,000. Half of them name a price of $250 or less.
By the 117 notices that give sale dates, half the products were on sale for 13 months or less; the longest for 11 years. Half the recalls came within 16 months of the first sale; the other half reached products that had been on sale longer.
A refund in 22 of the 57 notices that name a remedy, a repair in 22, a replacement in 12, disposal instructions in 1. Some notices offer more than one.
Fire is named in 97 of the 140 notices (69%), against 24% of all CPSC notices on file. Then burn (56), explosion (11), laceration (11), and fall (8).
101 of the 119 notices that describe incidents report at least one; 6 report injuries. 18 said none had been reported when the recall was announced.
China (68), United States (24), Canada (8), Taiwan (6) and Hong Kong (5), in the 116 notices that name a manufacturing country.
14 grill and fireplace notices in 2021–2025, up from 11 in 2016–2020. Across all CPSC notices on file, the count rose 16% over the same years.
As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 140 recall notices in the Grills & Fireplaces category since 1973, covering at least 11 million units. The most recent is “VQQQ Gas Patio Heaters Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire and Burn Hazards” (CPSC 27-039), announced October 22, 2026.
Yes. As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 4 recall notices in the Grills & Fireplaces category in 2026, the most recent on October 22, 2026 (CPSC 27-039).
By number of notices: grills (64), fireplaces (42), fire pits (9), tables (3), ranges & stoves (1) and space heaters (1).
By number of notices: Char-Broil (6), Walmart (5), e4L (4), Hearth & Home Technologies (4), L G Sourcing (4) and Nexgrill Industries (4). Brand-name products are often made by another firm, so one recall can span several brands.
“Walmart Recalls Over 4.4 Million Expert Grill Brushes Due to Ingestion Hazard” (CPSC 27-010), announced October 1, 2026: about 4.5 million units.
Find the model number on the product's rating label and enter it in the site search. An exact match names the official CPSC notice that lists that number; open it to confirm any date codes or serial ranges it lists. No match is not proof that a product is safe.
Follow the remedy in the official notice and contact the firm it names. Across grill and fireplace recalls, the remedies offered most often are refund (22), repair (22) and replacement (12).
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