Pure Garden Fire Pit Lawsuit Update: Injuries, Recall Status, and Legal Options

Pure Garden fire-pit risks depend heavily on the specific product and fuel system. Alcohol models may raise concerns involving refilling, spilled fuel, faint flames, and hot burners, while wood-burning models can expose consumers to sparks, embers, hot steel, unstable placement, and spreading fire.

The CPSC actions discussed below involve other manufacturers or the broader liquid-fuel category unless expressly stated otherwise. Anyone injured should preserve the fire pit, fuel container or remaining wood, packaging, instructions, purchase records, photographs, and medical documentation.

Quick Facts

• Pure Garden is specifically listed among tabletop fire pit brands being reviewed in a nationwide burn-injury investigation.
• One Pure Garden tabletop model burns bioethanol or 91–95% isopropyl alcohol and uses ceramic wool as a wick.
• Pure Garden also sells larger wood-burning steel fire pits with spark screens, grates, pokers, and protective covers.
• Potential claims may depend on the exact model, fuel, accident mechanism, warnings, injuries, damages, and preserved evidence.

Latest Pure Garden Fire Pit Legal and Safety Developments

July 2026

• July 16, 2026 – CPSC warned consumers to immediately stop using Houswise Tabletop Fire Pits because pooled or spilled alcohol can create uncontrolled pool fires and refilling can cause flame jetting. CPSC reported more than two dozen incidents and seven injuries, including third-degree burns; the warning concerns Houswise products and should not be treated as a Pure Garden-specific regulatory finding [1]

May 2026

• May 2026 – Attorneys investigating tabletop fire pit burn injuries reported that they were reviewing individual claims nationwide and specifically listed Pure Garden among the brands under investigation. The investigation does not establish that a Pure Garden fire pit is defective or that a manufacturer, seller, or retailer is legally liable [2]

December 2024

• December 19, 2024 – CPSC warned consumers against certain fire pits that require isopropyl alcohol or another liquid fuel to be poured into an open container and ignited where it pools. CPSC reported two deaths and at least 60 injuries involving hazardous products in this category since 2019 [3]

What Is a Pure Garden Fire Pit?

Pure Garden sells several types of recreational fire pits rather than one single design. Available retailer records include small alcohol-burning tabletop fireplaces as well as larger outdoor fire pits intended to burn wood.

Target identifies a Pure Garden tabletop model marketed as a compact fire pit for indoor or outdoor living spaces. The product measures approximately 11 by 10 by 5.5 inches and weighs about 9.3 pounds [4]

Home Depot separately lists Pure Garden wood-burning products, including square and rectangular steel fire pits. Those models use logs rather than liquid alcohol and require a different hazard analysis [5]

What Fuel Does the Pure Garden Tabletop Fire Pit Use?

The cited Target listing says the Pure Garden tabletop unit can burn gel or liquid bioethanol or 91–95% isopropyl rubbing alcohol.

The product includes ceramic wool that functions as a wick inside the burning chamber. Target lists a fuel capacity of approximately 3.7 ounces and maximum heat output of about 2,000 BTUs.

Those specifications make fuel concentration, quantity, burner condition, wick placement, and refilling procedure potentially important after an accident.

What Materials Are Used in the Tabletop Model?

The documented Pure Garden tabletop fire pit uses magnesium oxide, river rocks, steel, and ceramic wool.

Its compact body surrounds a small central burning chamber. A metal extinguisher lid is included to snuff out the flame after use.

These features may help investigators identify the particular model involved, especially where packaging or order records are unavailable.

How Long Can the Pure Garden Tabletop Fire Pit Burn?

The product listing advertises up to approximately two hours of clean, smokeless burning, depending on fuel type and conditions.

Long advertised burn times can affect whether a user expects to add more fuel during a gathering. A consumer may also mistakenly believe a nearly invisible alcohol flame has gone out when fuel continues burning.

Operating time alone does not establish a defect, but it may be relevant to determining whether refilling occurred and how much fuel remained in the burner.

Why Can Alcohol-Burning Tabletop Fire Pits Be Dangerous?

Liquid-alcohol fire pits place highly flammable fuel and an open flame near hands, clothing, furniture, food, decorations, and other combustible materials.

If alcohol spills, leaks, splashes, or overflows, it can ignite outside the intended burner and continue burning wherever the liquid travels.

CPSC has identified flame jetting and uncontrolled pool fires as particularly severe hazards involving certain open-container liquid-fuel fire pits.

What Is Flame Jetting?

Flame jetting can occur when fresh alcohol is poured toward a burner while a flame remains present. Alcohol flames can be faint and difficult to see, particularly in bright light.

The flame can ignite vapor or incoming fuel and travel toward the container, suddenly projecting flame or burning liquid toward the person refilling the product and nearby bystanders.

Whether flame jetting caused a Pure Garden incident must be determined from the actual product, fuel system, refilling sequence, and physical evidence.

How Can an Uncontrolled Pool Fire Develop?

A pool fire can occur when liquid fuel escapes a burner and continues burning across another surface.

Burning alcohol may move across a tabletop, counter, floor, clothing, furniture, cushions, rugs, or other combustible materials.

The magnesium-oxide housing and river rocks surrounding a Pure Garden burner do not necessarily contain fuel after liquid has escaped the designated chamber.

Why Ceramic Wool May Matter

The Pure Garden tabletop model uses ceramic wool as a reusable wick that absorbs fuel inside the burning chamber.

Wick condition, saturation, placement, and burner fill level may influence how fuel is retained and burned. Target says the material can be reused until it becomes black or burn time is reduced.

After an accident, consumers should preserve the ceramic wool and burner rather than removing, washing, or replacing them when safe evidence preservation is possible.

Why the Extinguisher Lid Matters

The product is supplied with a metal lid designed to extinguish the flame.

The presence of an extinguishing tool can be relevant to whether the flame was intentionally put out before the fire pit was handled or refueled.

Investigators may examine whether the lid was used, whether flame remained after extinguishing, how long the unit cooled, and what instructions accompanied the particular fire pit.

What About Pure Garden Wood-Burning Fire Pits?

Pure Garden also sells conventional outdoor fire pits intended to burn wood logs rather than alcohol.

Home Depot listings include a 32-inch steel square fire pit, a 37-inch rectangular tile fire pit, and a 26-inch square woven fire pit. Other Pure Garden products include round steel wood-burning bowls and star-and-moon designs.

These products present different hazards from alcohol-burning tabletop fireplaces and should not automatically be associated with flame jetting.

What Risks Are Associated With Wood-Burning Pure Garden Fire Pits?

Wood-burning fire pits can produce sparks, embers, ash, shifting logs, intense radiant heat, and hot steel surfaces.

A spark screen may reduce some airborne embers but cannot eliminate all fire risk. Embers can ignite dry vegetation, furniture, decks, clothing, paper products, or other combustible materials.

Fire-pit placement, wind, fuel load, surface material, stability, and distance from structures may all affect an accident investigation.

Why Fuel-System Identification Matters

A Pure Garden accident should not be analyzed solely from the brand name. The first question should be whether the product burned alcohol, gel fuel, wood, or another fuel.

An alcohol-burning tabletop model may raise refilling and spill-containment issues, while a wood-burning model may involve embers, sparks, collapsing logs, hot steel, or surface ignition.

Receipts, photographs, retailer listings, dimensions, labels, and the physical product can help establish which design was involved.

Other Tabletop Fire Pit Recalls and Warnings

CPSC has taken action involving other alcohol-burning tabletop fire pits after severe burn incidents. Those actions provide safety context but should not be attributed to Pure Garden.

In October 2024, CPSC recalled about 89,500 Colsen fire pits after receiving 31 reports involving flame jetting or flames escaping from the concrete containers. Nineteen burn injuries were reported, including serious third-degree burns and incidents requiring surgery or prolonged medical care [6]

CPSC later issued its broader pooled-alcohol warning and the 2026 Houswise stop-use warning. Together, those actions illustrate why liquid-fuel burner design and refilling practices receive regulatory scrutiny.

Why the Colsen Recall Is Relevant but Different

Colsen’s recalled fire pits consisted of open concrete reservoirs intended to contain burning liquid alcohol.

The documented Pure Garden tabletop product also burns liquid alcohol, which makes general refilling and spill hazards relevant to a safety analysis.

However, Colsen incidents and injuries are not Pure Garden incidents. Burner dimensions, wick systems, fuel capacity, housings, instructions, and accessories may differ substantially between the products.

What Injuries Can Fire Pit Accidents Cause?

Fire-pit accidents can cause thermal burns from direct flame, burning liquid fuel, sparks, embers, or hot surfaces.

Serious injuries may require emergency treatment, hospitalization, burn-center care, surgery, skin grafting, rehabilitation, scar treatment, or other medical care.

The severity and cause of a particular injury should be established through medical records and incident evidence rather than assumed from another manufacturer’s recall.

How May a Pure Garden Fire Pit Accident Occur?

An alcohol-model accident may involve spilled fuel, refilling near a remaining flame, overfilling, direct flame contact, hot components, or fire spreading outside the burner.

A wood-burning-model accident may instead involve escaping sparks or embers, unstable logs, hot steel, surface ignition, or fire spreading to surrounding property.

The accident mechanism should be reconstructed from the actual Pure Garden model rather than generalized across the entire brand.

Who May Be Affected?

Potentially affected people include consumers injured while filling, lighting, using, extinguishing, moving, cleaning, or sitting near a Pure Garden fire pit.

The injured person does not need to own the product. Guests, children, relatives, neighbors, or other bystanders may also be exposed to flame, burning fuel, sparks, embers, or hot components.

Property owners may also experience losses involving furniture, floors, decks, patios, rugs, clothing, electronics, landscaping, or nearby structures.

Who May Be Liable?

Potentially responsible parties may include a manufacturer, importer, distributor, retailer, marketplace seller, component supplier, fuel supplier, or another entity involved in placing the product into commerce.

Potential claims may involve defective design, manufacturing defects, inadequate warnings, negligence, breach of warranty, or other legal theories available under applicable law.

The attorney investigation and recalls involving other brands do not automatically establish liability for Pure Garden. Product identity, defect evidence, warnings, causation, injuries, damages, and governing law must be evaluated individually.

What Is the Current Pure Garden Fire Pit Lawsuit Status?

Pure Garden is specifically named among tabletop fire pit brands being reviewed in a nationwide attorney investigation involving burn-injury claims.

An attorney investigation is not a court judgment, certified class action, product recall, settlement, or finding that a Pure Garden fire pit is defective.

Any individual claim still requires evidence identifying the specific Pure Garden model, fuel system, accident mechanism, injuries, and alleged defect.

Do I Qualify?

• Were you or a loved one seriously burned or otherwise injured while using or sitting near a Pure Garden fire pit?
• Did the incident involve alcohol refueling, spilled fuel, a remaining flame, hot surfaces, sparks, embers, or spreading fire?
• Did you require emergency treatment, hospitalization, surgery, skin grafting, burn-center care, or other significant medical treatment?
• Do you have the fire pit, fuel container or wood remains, packaging, purchase records, photographs, or medical documentation?

An individualized legal review can determine whether product identification, accident mechanism, causation, damages, available evidence, potential defendants, and filing deadlines support a claim.

What Evidence Should I Preserve?

Preserve the Pure Garden fire pit, burner, ceramic wool, extinguisher lid, fuel bottle, spark screen, grate, poker, or other original components relevant to the model involved.

Save Target, Home Depot, Walmart, Amazon, or other retailer order histories, receipts, shipping information, product screenshots, packaging, instructions, photographs, videos, and seller communications.

Medical records, injury photographs, damaged clothing, fire reports, witness statements, insurance records, and property-damage photographs may also be important.

Why Purchase Records Matter

Pure Garden sells multiple products under the same general fire-pit brand, so a retailer receipt or order history can help distinguish an alcohol-burning tabletop fireplace from a wood-burning outdoor model.

For the cited Target tabletop product, identifiers include TCIN 93036904, UPC 197315060666, and DPCI 009-10-9953.

Preserving those identifiers can help connect the physical product to the specifications and instructions advertised when it was purchased.

Do I Have a Pure Garden Fire Pit Lawsuit?

If you or a loved one suffered serious burns or other documented injuries involving a Pure Garden fire pit, you may have legal options. Contact Schmidt & Clark for a free case review.

Start My Free Case Review

Important Legal Actions or Recalls

Event	Month/Year	Type	Status	Source	Notes
Houswise fire pit warning	July 2026	Consumer safety warning	Immediate stop-use	CPSC	Comparable liquid-fuel products
Pure Garden claims investigation	May 2026	Attorney investigation	Claims under review	Top Class Actions	Pure Garden specifically listed
Liquid-fire-pit alert	December 2024	Consumer safety alert	Category-wide warning	CPSC	Two deaths reported
Colsen fire pit recall	October 2024	Consumer product recall	Disposal remedy	CPSC	19 burn injuries

Potential Compensation

Potential compensation may include emergency treatment, hospitalization, burn-center care, surgery, skin grafting, medication, rehabilitation, scar treatment, and future medical expenses supported by an individual claim.

Additional damages may include lost wages, reduced earning capacity, pain and suffering, permanent scarring, disfigurement, property damage, and other losses available under applicable law.

Compensation amounts vary by case. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes.

Legal Process Overview

Free case review: The initial review may address the Pure Garden model, fuel system, purchase source, accident sequence, injuries, property damage, and available evidence.

Investigation. Attorneys may examine the fire pit, burner or fire bowl, fuel source, wick or grate, instructions, purchase records, photographs, medical evidence, and witness accounts.

Filing. A lawsuit may be filed when available evidence and governing law support one or more claims. Filing deadlines vary by jurisdiction.

Discovery/negotiation: The parties may exchange product records, design information, warnings, testing materials, sales records, medical evidence, expert opinions, photographs, and testimony while discussing possible resolution.

Resolution: A case may conclude through settlement, dismissal, court ruling, or trial. No outcome or timeline can be guaranteed.

Frequently Asked Questions About Pure Garden Fire Pits

Do I Have a Pure Garden Fire Pit Lawsuit?

A potential claim may warrant review if a Pure Garden fire pit was involved in a documented burn or fire accident. Eligibility depends on product identification, causation, damages, available evidence, and applicable law.

What Evidence May Support a Pure Garden Fire Pit Lawsuit?

Evidence may include the fire pit, burner, ceramic wool, fuel bottle, spark screen, packaging, instructions, retailer records, photographs, medical documentation, and fire reports. The most important evidence depends on whether the product burned alcohol or wood.

Does Pure Garden Sell Alcohol-Burning Fire Pits?

Yes. Target lists a compact Pure Garden tabletop model designed to burn gel or liquid bioethanol or 91–95% isopropyl alcohol. The model also uses ceramic wool as a wick and includes a metal extinguisher lid.

Does Pure Garden Sell Wood-Burning Fire Pits?

Yes. Retail listings also identify larger Pure Garden steel outdoor fire pits intended to burn wood logs. Those models commonly include grates, spark screens, pokers, or protective covers.

What Is Flame Jetting?

Flame jetting can occur when liquid fuel is added while a flame remains in or near a burner. Ignition may travel toward the fuel container and project flame or burning liquid toward users and bystanders.

Can a Pure Garden Fire Pit Stay Hot After the Flame Goes Out?

Yes. Burner components, ceramic wool, metal parts, rocks, or steel fire bowls may retain heat after visible flames diminish. Consumers should follow the instructions supplied with the specific model before moving, refueling, or handling it.

Have Similar Alcohol Fire Pits Been Recalled?

Yes. CPSC recalled about 89,500 Colsen fire pits after 31 reports involving flame jetting or escaping flames resulted in 19 burn injuries. Those incidents involved Colsen products and should not be attributed to Pure Garden.

What Should I Do After a Pure Garden Fire Pit Accident?

Seek appropriate medical treatment and preserve the product when it can be done safely. Photograph the fire pit, fuel system, injuries, surrounding damage, packaging, and purchase information.

References

1. https://www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/2026/CPSC-Warns-Consumers-to-Stop-Using-Houswise-Tabletop-Fire-Pits-Immediately-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Burn-Injury-or-Death-from-Flame-Jetting-and-Fire-Hazards
2. https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/tabletop-fire-pit-burn-injury-lawsuit/
3. 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
4. https://www.target.com/p/-/A-93036904
5. https://www.homedepot.com/b/Outdoors-Outdoor-Heating-Fire-Pits/Pure-Garden/Tabletop/Wood/N-5yc1vZc6naZd4nZ1z110s6Z1z1ukt7
6. https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Colsen-Recalls-Fire-Pits-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Burn-Injury-from-Flame-Jetting-and-Fire-Spreading-Hazards