Recalls involving smoke alarms, carbon monoxide detectors, fire extinguishers, and other home fire-safety equipment.
The largest product type here is smoke alarm recalls: 36 of the 52 notices. The smoke alarm recall list has every one, with a lookup of the model numbers they name.
The recalled fire spray canister can deteriorate overtime, causing it to rupture and fail to operate during a fire, posing the risk of serious injury or death from fire and burn hazards.
Treatlife Technology
The recalled detectors can fail to alert consumers of a fire, posing a risk of serious injury or death from smoke inhalation or burns.
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If the sensing threshold of security warnings is set too high, the alarm might not sound in a timely manner, posing a fire hazard.
The recalled detectors can malfunction and fail to alert consumers of a fire or carbon monoxide (CO) leak, posing a risk of smoke inhalation, carbon monoxide poisoning or death.
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The smoke alarms can malfunction and fail to alert consumers of a fire, posing a risk of smoke inhalation or death. Smoke sensitivity tests performed on the alarms by CPSC found that one of the detectors that was tested failed to alert when exposed to pre-determined concentrations of smoke.
After alerting consumers to the presence of natural gas or carbon monoxide, the recalled alarm can go into sleep mode when the alert lasts less than four minutes. During this time, the alarms can fail to detect and alert consumers to a new incidence of natural gas or carbon monoxide, posing a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.
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The detectors can fail to activate, posing a risk that consumers will not be alerted to a fire.
The detectors can fail to alert consumers to the presence of hazardous smoke and fire.
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The alarms can fail to alert consumers to the presence of a hazardous level of carbon monoxide, posing a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning or death. Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless, poisonous gas.
The smoke alarm and the combination smoke/carbon monoxide (CO) alarm can fail to alert consumers to a fire.
The smoke alarms can have a misaligned internal switch causing the alarms to not activate properly, posing a risk of failure to alert consumers to a fire.
IDT International
The bedside fire alarm and clock can fail to operate and fully alert consumers to a fire.
Counted across all 52 notices on file as of October 31, 2026. Each line says how many notices it rests on.
Amazon (12), The Home Depot (6), Menards (5), Walmart (5), and Best Buy (1) are the stores named most often in the 40 notices that say where the products were sold. 18 of the 40 notices mention online sales.
The 39 notices that give a price range from $4 to $20,000. Half of them name a price of $40 or less.
By the 38 notices that give sale dates, half the products were on sale for 16 months or less; the longest for 12 years. Half the recalls came within 19 months of the first sale; the other half reached products that had been on sale longer.
A replacement in 17 of the 27 notices that name a remedy, a refund in 4, new instructions in 3, a repair in 3. Some notices offer more than one.
Fire is named in 40 of the 52 notices (77%), against 24% of all CPSC notices on file. Then burn (10), carbon monoxide (10), poisoning (5), and explosion (2).
21 of the 39 notices that describe incidents report at least one; 1 reports injuries. 18 said none had been reported when the recall was announced.
China (19), United States (8), Mexico (7), Canada (1) and Hong Kong (1), in the 37 notices that name a manufacturing country.
7 smoke and CO alarm notices in 2021–2025, up from 6 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 52 recall notices in the Smoke & CO Alarms category since 1977, covering at least 51 million units. The most recent is “Prepared Hero Recalls Fire Spray Canisters Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire and Burn Hazards” (CPSC 26-755), announced September 10, 2026.
Yes. As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 3 recall notices in the Smoke & CO Alarms category in 2026, the most recent on September 10, 2026 (CPSC 26-755).
By number of notices: smoke alarms (36), fire extinguishers (8) and carbon monoxide alarms (7).
By number of notices: Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (9), Kidde (8), BRK (3), Universal Security Instruments (3), ADT (2) and AMF (2). Brand-name products are often made by another firm, so one recall can span several brands.
“Kidde Recalls Fire Extinguishers with Plastic Handles Due to Failure to Discharge and Nozzle Detachment: One Death Reported” (CPSC 18-022), announced November 2, 2017: about 38 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 smoke and CO alarm recalls, the remedies offered most often are replacement (17), refund (4) and new instructions (3).
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