Product type
Recalls involving smoke alarms and combination smoke and CO alarms.
36 official CPSC notices published 1977–2026, covering at least 7.5 million units.
Type the model number from your smoke alarm's label. Every model number named in a smoke alarm recall is listed below, grouped by notice.
136 model numbers
3-Pack Smoke Detector Fire Alarms · 26-260 · 2026
Walter Kidde Portable Equipment Kidde TruSense Smoke Alarms… · 21-130 · 2021
Fyrnetics Kidde dual-sensor smoke alarms · 18-128 · 2018
Sure Signal Products Heat-activated fire alarm · 16-021 · 2015
SBGA-34 Audible Fire Alarm Base · 14-278 · 2014
Bosch Security Systems Fire Alarm Control Panel · 12-721 · 2012
Fire Alarm Control Panel · 11-702 · 2010
GE Security Smoke Detector Systems · 05-526 · 2004
GE Interlogix (GEI) ESL Smoke Detectors · 03-552 · 2003
Moose security control panels · 96-053 · 1995
BRK Electronics wired-in smoke detectors · 92-130 · 1992
Edwards ADT Smoke Alarms · 83-055 · 1983
Honeywell smoke detectors · 83-029 · 1983
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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.
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.
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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 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.
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IDT International
The bedside fire alarm and clock can fail to operate and fully alert consumers to a fire.
A yellow cap left on during the manufacturing process can cover one of the two smoke sensors and compromise the smoke alarm's ability to detect smoke, posing a risk of consumers not being alerted to a fire in their home.
The alarm can fail to continue to chirp when it reaches its 7-year end of life if the batteries are replaced, leading consumers to believe it is still working. This poses a risk of consumers not being alerted to a fire or CO incident in their home.
The pull handle on the fire alarm pull station can break when manually pulled and fail to activate the alarm system.
Totals add up the figures the notices state, counting a reannounced or restated recall once; 28 of 36 notices add a unit count. A notice that gives no number adds nothing.
Counted across all 36 notices on file as of October 31, 2026. Each line says how many notices it rests on.
Amazon (9), The Home Depot (4), Menards (3), Walmart (2), and Best Buy (1) are the stores named most often in the 28 notices that say where smoke alarms were sold. 13 of the 28 notices mention online sales.
The 28 notices that give a price range from $10 to $20,000. Half of them name a price of $45.50 or less.
By the 27 notices that give sale dates, half the products were on sale for 15 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 12 of the 21 notices that name a remedy, a refund in 4, new instructions in 3, a repair in 2. Some notices offer more than one.
Fire is named in 32 of the 36 notices (89%), against 24% of all CPSC notices on file. Then burn (8), carbon monoxide (4), poisoning (2), and electric shock (1).
14 of the 27 notices that describe incidents report at least one. 13 said none had been reported when the recall was announced.
21 of the 36 notices list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 3, date codes or manufacture dates in 19, UPC codes in 1, lot or batch numbers in 1. A matching model number is a reason to open the notice, not the last word.
Where the notices say the numbers are: “on the back of the alarm” (4 notices), “on a label on the back of the alarm” (2 notices), and “on a sticker inside the pull station”.
China (15), United States (6), Mexico (3), Canada (1) and Hong Kong (1), in the 26 notices that name a manufacturing country.
5 smoke alarm notices in 2021–2025, the same as in 2016–2020. Across all CPSC notices on file, the count rose 16% over the same years.
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Every notice, newest first. Unit counts are the U.S. figures each notice states.
As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 36 recall notices for smoke alarms since 1977, covering at least 7.5 million units. The most recent is “Combination Smoke and Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detectors Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Failure to Alert Consumers to Fire; Sold Exclusively on Amazon.com by Treatlife Technology” (CPSC 26-582), announced June 25, 2026.
Yes. As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 2 recall notices for smoke alarms in 2026, the most recent on June 25, 2026 (CPSC 26-582).
“Kidde Recalls Combination Smoke/CO Alarms Due to Alarm Failure” (CPSC 17-031), announced November 10, 2016: about 3.6 million units.
Brands named most often: Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (6), Kidde (5), BRK (3), AMF (2), Bosch Security Systems (2), Fyrnetics (2), I-T-E (2) and Sears (2), plus 22 more brands. Brand-name products are often made by another firm, so one recall can span several brands.
Find the model number on the product's rating label, then type it into the model-number lookup on this page. A match means the number appears in an official CPSC notice; open that notice to confirm any date codes or serial ranges it lists. No match is not proof that a product is safe. 21 of the 36 notices here list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 3, date codes or manufacture dates in 19 and lot or batch numbers in 1. The place they name most often is “on the back of the alarm”.
Follow the remedy in the official notice and contact the firm it names. Across smoke alarm recalls, the remedies offered most often are replacement (12), refund (4) and new instructions (3).
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