No public CPSC recall, product-specific warning, or settlement involving HOMCOM fire pits has been announced. Consumers injured by a HOMCOM ethanol fireplace may still request a legal review involving the burner design, fuel instructions, warnings, incident sequence, medical records, and property damage.
Quick Facts
- HOMCOM sells tabletop and freestanding ventless ethanol fireplaces for indoor and outdoor decorative use.
- Some HOMCOM models use clean ethanol fuel, glass screens, stainless steel components, and burner boxes.
- CPSC has warned that alcohol or liquid-burning fire pits can cause flame jetting and uncontrolled pool fires.
- Important evidence may include the fireplace, burner box, glass screen, fuel container, instructions, order records, photographs, and medical records.
Table Of Contents
- Latest News & Updates on HOMCOM Fire Pit Injury Lawsuits
- What Is a HOMCOM Fire Pit?
- Reported Risks or Injuries
- How Does the Problem Occur, and Who May Be Liable?
- Who May Be Affected?
- Do I Qualify?
- Do I Have a HOMCOM Fire Pit Injury Lawsuit?
- Important Legal Actions or Recalls
- Potential Compensation
- Legal Process Overview
- Frequently Asked Questions About HOMCOM Fire Pit Injury Lawsuits
- Is there a HOMCOM fire pit recall?
- What risks may support a HOMCOM Fire Pit Injury Lawsuit?
- What fuel do HOMCOM ethanol fireplaces use?
- Can a glass screen make a HOMCOM fireplace safer?
- Why are ventless ethanol fireplaces risky indoors?
- Can a guest bring a HOMCOM Fire Pit Injury Lawsuit?
- What evidence should be saved after a HOMCOM fire pit accident?
- How can a legal review help with a HOMCOM Fire Pit Injury Lawsuit?
- References
Latest News & Updates on HOMCOM Fire Pit Injury Lawsuits
July 2026
July 2026 – No public CPSC recall, manufacturer remedy, or announced settlement specifically involving HOMCOM fire pits has been identified. Individual claims may still be reviewed when a HOMCOM ethanol fireplace causes burns, flame spread, fuel spillover, or property damage.
May 2026
May 7, 2026 – CPSC warned consumers to stop using Northlight Bio Ethanol Portable Tabletop Fireplaces because pooled or spilled alcohol can create uncontrolled fires. A hidden flame can also ignite fuel during refilling and propel burning liquid toward users or bystanders [1].
April 2026
April 2, 2026 – CPSC issued an immediate stop-use warning for Rozato Tabletop Fire Pits after one death and multiple serious burn injuries were associated with the products. The agency identified flame jetting and uncontrolled pool fires involving alcohol fuel as the primary hazards [2].
September 2025
September 18, 2025 – Five Below recalled approximately 66,000 tabletop fire pits because alcohol could splash or leak from the reservoir during ignition or use. CPSC warned that escaping fuel could create larger, hotter flames outside the unit and expose consumers to serious burns [3].
December 2024
December 19, 2024 – CPSC warned against alcohol or other liquid-burning fire pits that require consumers to pour fuel into an open container and ignite it where it pools. Hazardous products in this category have been associated with two deaths and at least 60 injuries since 2019 [4].
October 2024
October 17, 2024 – CPSC recalled approximately 89,500 Colsen fire pits after receiving 31 reports of flame jetting or flames escaping from their containers. Nineteen burn injuries were reported, including third-degree burns, surgeries, loss of function, and permanent disfigurement [5].
HOMCOM Product Details
HOMCOM sells gel and ethanol fireplaces through retailers such as Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Aosom. HOMCOM tabletop models include ventless bioethanol fireplaces with glass screens, stainless steel or metal components, burner boxes, and indoor/outdoor decorative use [6, 7, 8].
What Is a HOMCOM Fire Pit?
A HOMCOM fire pit or ethanol fireplace is a ventless decorative flame product that burns ethanol fuel. HOMCOM products include tabletop fireplaces, freestanding tabletop models, and concrete alcohol fireplaces.
Some HOMCOM models use a glass screen around the burner, while others use concrete or stainless steel components. The products are intended to create a real flame without wood, ash, soot, a chimney, or a venting system.
HOMCOM ethanol fireplaces may be used on tables, patios, balconies, living-room surfaces, outdoor dining areas, and other gathering spaces. Their decorative format can place the flame close to people, fuel bottles, furniture, curtains, food, drinks, and clothing.
The products differ from small s’mores bowls because some HOMCOM models use a more structured fireplace housing or larger burner box. That structure may change how fuel spills, heat retention, glass contact, and emergency movement occur during an incident.
Reported Risks or Injuries
No HOMCOM-specific injuries are identified in the public CPSC recall record. Similar alcohol-burning tabletop fireplaces have caused severe burns, permanent scarring, disability, and death.
Flame jetting can occur when fresh ethanol fuel is poured into a burner that still contains a flame, heat, or ignitable vapor. The flame can travel through the fuel stream and ignite vapors near or inside the fuel container.
Burning liquid may then be propelled toward the person refilling the fireplace or toward bystanders. The injury pattern may involve the face, neck, chest, arms, hands, or clothing because the fuel bottle is often held close to the body.
A pool fire can occur when ethanol spills from the burner box, leaks during filling, or spreads underneath the fireplace. Burning fuel can travel across a table, countertop, floor, rug, furniture, balcony surface, or patio area.
Potential injuries include facial burns, eye injuries, airway damage, hand and arm burns, second-degree burns, third-degree burns, infection, nerve injuries, contractures, scarring, and permanent disfigurement. Severe cases may require emergency care, burn-center treatment, debridement, skin grafting, reconstructive surgery, rehabilitation, and long-term scar care.
How Does the Problem Occur, and Who May Be Liable?
A HOMCOM ethanol fireplace incident may begin when the burner is refilled before the product has fully cooled. Alcohol flames can be faint, especially in bright light or after the main flame appears to have gone out.
Another pathway involves fuel escaping from the burner during filling or movement. If the unit has a glass screen or metal frame, spilled fuel may burn around or beneath components while the visible flame remains partly shielded.
Glass screens can create separate evidence issues. A screen may reduce direct contact with the flame, but it can also retain heat, crack, move, or interfere with attempts to extinguish or move the fireplace safely.
A legal investigation may examine the burner-box capacity, fill markings, glass-screen design, base stability, extinguishing method, cooling instructions, warning placement, recommended fuel, and retail product description. It may also evaluate whether users were clearly warned not to refill, touch, move, or clean the unit until it was fully extinguished and cool.
Potentially responsible parties may include the manufacturer, importer, distributor, retailer, online marketplace, component supplier, testing entity, or fuel supplier. Liability depends on product identity, defect evidence, warning adequacy, incident circumstances, medical records, property damage, and applicable law.
Who May Be Affected?
Consumers may be affected while filling, lighting, refilling, extinguishing, moving, cleaning, or sitting near a HOMCOM ethanol fireplace. The injured person does not need to be the buyer or the person who poured the fuel.
Guests may be affected when a HOMCOM fireplace is used as a tabletop centerpiece during dinner, parties, balcony gatherings, or patio events. A sudden flame jet or spreading pool fire can reach nearby people before they can move away.
Apartment and indoor users may face additional hazards because the product may be positioned near walls, curtains, furniture, rugs, electronics, or limited exit routes. A spreading alcohol fire can damage property and create smoke or airway exposure.
Children and pets may also be exposed because tabletop flames are often located at face or hand height. Even after the visible flame disappears, the burner, glass, frame, and nearby surface may remain hot.
Do I Qualify?
- Were you burned while using or sitting near a HOMCOM fire pit, tabletop ethanol fireplace, or ventless alcohol fireplace?
- Did the product use ethanol, bioethanol, rubbing alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, or another liquid fuel?
- Did the incident occur while filling, refilling, lighting, extinguishing, moving, or cleaning the fireplace?
- Did fuel spill from the burner, burn beneath the glass screen, or spread across a table, floor, furniture, or clothing?
- Did the flame appear extinguished before fresh fuel was added?
- Did you require emergency treatment, hospitalization, surgery, skin grafting, rehabilitation, or long-term scar care?
- Can you preserve the fireplace, burner box, glass screen, fuel container, packaging, instructions, seller listing, photographs, medical records, and damaged property?
A legal review can help determine eligibility by evaluating the HOMCOM product, fuel involved, warnings, retailer records, incident sequence, injuries, damages, and applicable filing deadlines.
Do I Have a HOMCOM Fire Pit Injury Lawsuit?
If you or a loved one suffered burns or property damage involving a HOMCOM fire pit or ethanol fireplace, you may have legal options. Contact Schmidt & Clark for a free case review.
Important Legal Actions or Recalls
| Event | Month/Year | Type | Status | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colsen fire pit recall | October 2024 | Consumer product recall | Disposal remedy announced | CPSC | CPSC reported 31 incidents and 19 burn injuries involving flame jetting or escaping fire. |
| General liquid-burning fire pit alert | December 2024 | Consumer safety warning | Stop-use guidance issued | CPSC | CPSC warned against open-container fire pits that burn pooled alcohol or other liquid fuel. |
| Five Below tabletop fire pit recall | September 2025 | Consumer product recall | Refund offered | CPSC | Alcohol could splash or leak from the reservoir and create a spreading flash fire. |
| Rozato tabletop fire pit warning | April 2026 | Consumer safety warning | Immediate stop-use warning | CPSC | One death and multiple serious burn injuries were associated with flame-jetting and pool-fire hazards. |
| Northlight bioethanol fireplace warning | May 2026 | Consumer safety warning | Immediate stop-use warning | CPSC | CPSC warned that pooled alcohol and refilling could cause serious or fatal burns. |
Potential Compensation
Potential compensation may include ambulance transportation, emergency treatment, hospitalization, burn-center care, wound treatment, surgery, skin grafting, medication, rehabilitation, scar treatment, and future medical expenses.
Other damages may include pain and suffering, permanent scarring, disfigurement, emotional distress, reduced mobility, lost wages, diminished earning capacity, home-care expenses, and loss of enjoyment of life.
Property-related damages may include furniture replacement, structural repairs, cleanup costs, smoke remediation, insurance deductibles, and temporary housing. Fatal incidents may support wrongful death claims under applicable state law.
Compensation amounts vary by case. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes.
Legal Process Overview
Step 1: Free case review. The initial review examines the HOMCOM model, purchase source, burner style, fuel used, table placement, incident sequence, injuries, and property damage. The reviewer may ask whether the event involved refilling, a hidden flame, glass-screen heat, spilled fuel, or a burner-box overflow.
Step 2: Investigation. Preserve the fireplace, burner box, glass screen, metal frame, fuel bottle, packaging, instructions, order confirmation, seller page, photographs, medical records, and damaged property. Product experts may evaluate fuel containment, stability, warning placement, cooling instructions, surface temperature, and burn patterns.
Step 3: Filing the claim. A supported claim may allege defective design, manufacturing defects, inadequate warnings, negligence, breach of warranty, retailer liability, or marketplace liability. Filing requirements and limitation periods depend on the jurisdiction and incident date.
Step 4: Discovery and negotiation. The parties may exchange product specifications, testing records, retailer records, import materials, warnings, medical evidence, photographs, fire reports, and expert opinions. Negotiations may address product identification, causation, burn severity, future treatment, lost income, and property damage.
Step 5: Resolution. The matter may conclude through settlement, dismissal, court ruling, or trial. The outcome depends on product proof, defect evidence, available defendants, documented damages, insurance coverage, and applicable defenses.
Frequently Asked Questions About HOMCOM Fire Pit Injury Lawsuits
Is there a HOMCOM fire pit recall?
No public CPSC recall or product-specific safety warning involving HOMCOM fire pits has been announced. A recall is not required for an injured consumer to request an individual product liability review.
What risks may support a HOMCOM Fire Pit Injury Lawsuit?
A claim may involve flame jetting, fuel spillover, an uncontrolled pool fire, retained heat, hot glass, inadequate warnings, or an unstable tabletop setup. Whether those facts support a lawsuit depends on the evidence, injuries, available defendants, and applicable law.
What fuel do HOMCOM ethanol fireplaces use?
HOMCOM ethanol fireplaces use ethanol or bioethanol fuel. The exact fuel bottle should be preserved after an incident because its contents, nozzle, warnings, and remaining fuel may be relevant evidence.
Can a glass screen make a HOMCOM fireplace safer?
A glass screen may reduce direct contact with the flame, but it does not necessarily contain spilled burning alcohol. Glass can also retain heat, crack, move, or complicate attempts to extinguish or relocate the fireplace during an emergency.
Why are ventless ethanol fireplaces risky indoors?
Indoor use can place a real flame near curtains, rugs, furniture, paper, electronics, pets, and children. If alcohol fuel spills or ignites unexpectedly, the fire may spread faster than users expect.
Can a guest bring a HOMCOM Fire Pit Injury Lawsuit?
Possibly. A guest or bystander may request legal review even if another person purchased, fueled, or lit the fireplace. Witness statements, photographs, purchase records, and the preserved product may help establish what occurred.
What evidence should be saved after a HOMCOM fire pit accident?
Save the fireplace, burner box, glass screen, fuel bottle, packaging, instructions, online listing, receipt, photographs, videos, burned clothing, medical records, fire reports, and damaged property. Do not clean, test, refill, repair, or discard the product unless immediate safety requires it.
How can a legal review help with a HOMCOM Fire Pit Injury Lawsuit?
A legal review can examine product identity, possible defects, warnings, sellers, medical causation, damages, insurance, and filing deadlines. It can also help determine which physical and digital evidence should be preserved.
References
- https://www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/2026/CPSC-Warns-Consumers-to-Stop-Using-Northlight-Bio-Ethanol-Portable-Tabletop-Fireplaces-Immediately-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Burn-Injury-or-Death-from-Flame-Jetting-and-Fire-Hazards
- https://www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/2026/CPSC-Warns-Consumers-to-Stop-Using-Rozato-Tabletop-Fire-Pits-Immediately-Due-to-Flame-Jetting-and-Fire-Hazards-One-Death-and-Serious-Burn-Injuries-Reported
- https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Five-Below-Recalls-Tabletop-Fire-Pits-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Burn-Injury-from-Flame-Jetting-and-Fire-Hazards
- https://www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/2025/Consumer-Alert-Stop-Using-Alcohol-or-Other-Liquid-Burning-Fire-Pits-That-Violate-Voluntary-Standards-and-Present-Flame-Jetting-and-Fire-Hazards-Two-Deaths-and-Dozens-of-Serious-Burn-Injuries-Reported
- https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Colsen-Recalls-Fire-Pits-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Burn-Injury-from-Flame-Jetting-and-Fire-Spreading-Hazards
- https://www.lowes.com/pl/fireplaces-stoves/fireplaces/gel-ethanol-fireplaces/homcom/1221215469-3582146730
- https://www.homedepot.com/p/HOMCOM-7-75-in-Freestanding-Tabletop-Ventless-Bio-Ethanol-Fireplace-with-Glass-Screen-for-Indoor-Outdoor-Use-Silver-820-159/318717701
- https://www.aosom.com/item/homcom-tabletop-fireplace-13-concrete-alcohol-fireplace-with-stainless-steel-lid-for-indoor-and-outdoor-0-04-gal-max~1B82ADQ4O8801.html