HVAC Recalls Since 2000: Every CPSC Recall of Furnaces, Boilers, Air Conditioners, Heaters and Thermostats, Counted

How many HVAC recalls are there? About eight a year, and the count is drifting down

HVAC recalls are a small and steady slice of CPSC's work: 212 recalls in nearly 27 years, never more than 15 in a year.

HVAC recall (as counted here): An HVAC recall here is a CPSC recall notice whose main product is a furnace, boiler, central air conditioner, heat pump, packaged or ductless unit, PTAC or through-the-wall unit, window, room or portable air conditioner, evaporative cooler, dehumidifier, portable space heater, fixed wall, baseboard, unit or garage heater, installed ventilation or air-cleaning equipment, or a thermostat, sensor or control. Units are US units as stated in the notice, not units that failed or were returned.

CPSC announced 212 HVAC recalls from 1 January 2000 to 2 November 2026, plus 9 notices that only reannounced an earlier recall (CPSC Recalls API, our coding). The busiest years were 2007 and 2014, with 15 recalls each. The quietest full year was 2000, with 2.

Averaged by period, HVAC recalls fell from 8.9 a year in 2000 to 2008 to 7.8 in 2009 to 2017 and 6.8 in 2018 to 2025. Removing portable space heaters gives 6.2, 5.4 and 5.0 a year. HVAC's share of all CPSC recall notices slipped from 3.0% to 2.3% over the same periods, so the decline is not only a product of CPSC posting fewer recalls.

For an HVAC company, the base rate matters more than any single headline: a recall touching the equipment a contractor installs (furnaces, boilers, central units, PTACs, controls) happens a handful of times a year nationally, not every week.

Dehumidifiers and space heaters, not furnaces, supply most recalled units

Counted by units, HVAC recalls are dominated by low-cost plug-in appliances sold at retail; installed heating and cooling equipment is recalled often but in small batches.

Dehumidifiers account for 12.1 million recalled US units since 2000 (32.7% of the HVAC total) from only 13 recalls. Portable space heaters add 11.06 million units from 62 recalls. Boilers, the second most frequent category with 45 recalls, total only 379,163 units.

Units per year are lumpy. The average from 2000 to 2025 is 1.4 million US units, but the median year is 854,471, and annual totals range from 44,500 in 2003 to 4,677,379 in 2025. One large retail recall can move a year by millions.

Ten recalls hold more than half of all units recalled since 2000

The 10 largest HVAC recalls since 2000 cover 20.46 million US units, 55.2% of the 37.0 million total. Seven are dehumidifiers or portable space heaters.

Two of the ten are from 2025: about 2.9 million electric motors for gable and roof-mounted attic fans distributed by Air Vent (fire hazard), and about 1.7 million Midea U and U+ window air conditioners, recalled for a mold exposure risk rather than fire. The Midea notice is one of only three HVAC recalls since 2000 whose stated hazard is none of fire, carbon monoxide, shock or burns.

The largest recall in each category is listed below. For furnaces the top entry is a component: about 298,300 evaporator coil drain pans installed with gas furnaces (Goodman, November 2021). The largest recall of whole furnaces is York's 2004 recall of about 226,000 gas furnaces for manufactured homes.

Nine in ten HVAC recalls name fire or carbon monoxide

Fire is named in 73.6% of HVAC recalls and carbon monoxide in 18.4%; together they appear in 89.6%. Carbon monoxide has grown as a share since 2018.

We coded each recall for the hazards named in CPSC's title and hazard text. Of 212 HVAC recalls, 156 name fire, 39 name carbon monoxide, 17 name shock or electrocution and 51 name burns or scalds; a recall can name several. 190 name fire or carbon monoxide, which is 89.6%. Without portable space heaters the share is 90.0%, so heaters do not drive the result.

Carbon monoxide recalls come almost entirely from fuel-burning central heat: 36 of the 39 involve boilers or furnaces, and 33 of the 45 boiler recalls cite CO. The CO share fell to 7.1% of HVAC recalls in 2009 to 2017 and rose to 31.5% in 2018 to 2025: 17 CO-citing recalls in those eight years, 15 of them boilers. Death statistics are outside this report; see our separate research on carbon monoxide deaths from heating systems.

Recalls of installed equipment are small, and the fix usually goes through a technician

Contractor-installed equipment accounts for 129 of the 212 recalls but only 11.5 million of the 37.0 million units, and its remedies are mostly repairs.

The median installed-equipment recall covers 6,180 US units, against 70,500 for plug-in appliances. 29% of installed-equipment recalls cite carbon monoxide, against 2% for plug-in appliances.

The remedy differs too. CPSC's remedy field, filled from 2010 on, shows a repair in 77% of the 70 installed-equipment recalls that carry it, against 12% of 51 plug-in recalls; plug-in recalls mostly offer a refund (71%). Across all years, 37% of installed-equipment recall notices name a technician, contractor, dealer or installer in the remedy text, and none of the plug-in notices do.

For an HVAC company this is the part of the record that becomes work: in-home repairs, inspections and part swaps arranged through the manufacturer. Recalls of the units a company installed are also something a buyer reviewing that company's install history may ask about. Our main guide to selling an HVAC business covers the sale process itself; this page only counts recalls.

What 2025 and 2026 added to the record

2025 brought the most recalled units of any year since 2000; 2026 has been quieter in units but busy for room and through-the-wall air conditioners.

2025 had 9 HVAC recalls and 4,677,379 US units. Five were boilers, four of them citing carbon monoxide. The attic fan motor and Midea window air conditioner recalls supplied 4.6 million of the units.

2026 had 8 HVAC recalls and 642,734 US units through 2 November. Three were portable space heaters, including about 338,800 DREO units and about 255,000 Vornado SRTH units; three involved window or through-the-wall air conditioners; one was a boiler recall (NTI and HTP brands, made by Ariston) and one covered ventilation fans in classroom heat pumps (Modine Airedale). Every entry is listed in the registry on this page.

HVAC recall registry: the 17 notices of 2025 and 2026 (all 221 notices since 2000 in the CSV)

Checked quarterly against the CPSC Recalls API. Last checked 2026-11-02. Entries are neutral records of public data; each links to its source record.

Key findings

1. CPSC announced 212 HVAC recalls between 1 January 2000 and 2 November 2026, excluding 9 reannouncements (CPSC Recalls API, our coding).^[1]
2. Those 212 HVAC recalls cover 37.0 million US units as stated in the notices, about 1.4 million units a year from 2000 to 2025.^[1]
3. The median year from 2000 to 2025 saw 854,471 US units recalled, because a handful of very large recalls lift the average.^[1]
4. HVAC recalls averaged 8.9 a year in 2000 to 2008, 7.8 in 2009 to 2017 and 6.8 in 2018 to 2025 (US, CPSC).^[1]
5. HVAC products made up 3.0% of all CPSC recall notices in 2000 to 2008 and 2.3% in 2018 to 2025.^[1]
6. 89.6% of HVAC recalls since 2000 (190 of 212) name fire or carbon monoxide as a hazard in CPSC's title or hazard text.^[1]
7. The share of HVAC recalls citing carbon monoxide rose from 7.1% in 2009 to 2017 to 31.5% in 2018 to 2025.^[1]
8. 33 of the 45 boiler recalls since 2000 cite carbon monoxide, and boilers and furnaces account for 36 of the 39 CO-related HVAC recalls.^[1]
9. Dehumidifiers account for 12.1 million recalled US units, 32.7% of all HVAC units recalled since 2000, from only 13 recalls.^{[1][4][7][8][11]}
10. The 10 largest HVAC recalls since 2000 hold 20.46 million US units, 55.2% of the total.^[1]
11. The largest single HVAC recall since 2000 is Midea's November 2016 dehumidifier recall: about 3.4 million US units plus 850,000 sold in Canada.^[4]
12. The largest recall of installed central equipment is Goodman's 2004 recall of about 875,000 packaged terminal air conditioners and heat pumps.^[14]
13. 2025 was the largest year for recalled HVAC units since at least 2000, at 4.68 million US units across 9 recalls.^[1][5][10]
14. Recalls of contractor-installed equipment have a median of 6,180 US units, against 70,500 for plug-in appliances.^[1]
15. Since 2010, 77% of installed-equipment recalls with a coded remedy offer a repair, while 71% of plug-in appliance recalls offer a refund.^[1]

Rankings and ratios we derived

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Executive summary

• CPSC posted 212 HVAC recalls from 1 January 2000 to 2 November 2026, plus 9 reannouncements of earlier recalls, by our coding of 337 candidate notices (CPSC Recalls API).
• Those recalls cover 37.0 million US units; removing portable space heaters leaves 150 recalls and 26.0 million units.
• The count is drifting down: 8.9 HVAC recalls a year in 2000 to 2008, 7.8 in 2009 to 2017 and 6.8 in 2018 to 2025, while units per year held near 1.5 million.
• Fire or carbon monoxide appears in 89.6% of HVAC recalls; fire alone in 73.6%, carbon monoxide in 18.4%, shock in 8.0% and burns or scalds in 24.1%.
• Carbon monoxide is concentrated in hydronic and forced-air heating: 36 of the 39 CO recalls involve boilers or furnaces, and 33 of 45 boiler recalls cite CO.
• Units are concentrated in plug-in appliances: dehumidifiers alone hold 32.7% of recalled units, and the 10 largest recalls hold 55.2%.
• Installed equipment recalls are smaller (median 6,180 US units versus 70,500 for plug-in appliances) and 77% of those with a coded remedy since 2010 offer a repair rather than a refund.
• 2025 set the record for units (4.68 million) on two recalls; 2026 had 8 HVAC recalls and 642,734 units by 2 November.

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Reproduce this analysis

Every figure comes from the files below. The scripts that pulled and computed them are kept with the report and can be re-run.

Data quality and exclusions

• 8,358 CPSC records screened; 8,021 removed by the keyword screen as non-HVAC products.
• 337 candidates reviewed; 116 coded out of scope (24 water heaters kept as a reference row; the rest pool, spa, aquarium and sauna heaters, hearth products, outdoor and camping heaters, personal heating products, fuel containers, service tools, gas line valves and screen false positives such as home theater systems).
• 9 reannouncements kept in the notice count but removed from recall and unit totals.
• 1 duplicate notice (Siebe damper actuators, published under two recall numbers on the same day) counted once.
• 2 notices adjusted for units restated from earlier recalls (16065 counted as 100,000 new units; 22193 as 0).
• 1 unit string with a stray space (24018, 'About 17, 370') read as 17,370; 1 Canada figure (24080) taken from the recall page (210) rather than the API (12).
• 3 older notices hand-flagged for fire where the hazard text describes ignition or smoking without the word fire.

Methodology

Source and selection. We downloaded every recall record in the CPSC Recalls API (the SaferProducts.gov REST web service that feeds cpsc.gov recall pages) with a recall date from 1 January 2000 to 2 November 2026: 27 yearly JSON files, 8,358 records. CPSC jurisdiction covers consumer products; vehicles, food and drugs are recalled by other agencies and are not here.

Screening and coding. A keyword screen of titles, product names and CPSC product types (furnace, boiler, air conditioner, heat pump, thermostat, dehumidifier, heater, ventilation and related terms), plus 12 notices found by reading descriptions, gave 337 candidates. Each candidate was assigned one primary category by ordered rules, with 80 hand overrides checked against the recall description (for example, PTACs titled only as heating and cooling units). 116 candidates were out of scope: water heaters (kept as a reference row), pool and spa heaters, hearth products, patio and camping heaters, personal heating products, fuel containers and false matches such as home theater systems.

Counting rules. A recall is a notice that is not a reannouncement; expansions that add units count. Units are the US units in the notice's units field; Canada units are recorded separately where the notice states them. Reannouncements count 0 units, and two notices that restate earlier units were adjusted (Carrier PTAC December 2015: 285,000 includes 185,000 recalled in 2007, so 100,000 new; Daikin drain pans July 2022 restates the 298,300 of November 2021). One notice published twice under two numbers (Siebe damper actuators, October 2002) is counted once. Years are calendar years of the recall date; CPSC's recall numbers and URLs use its fiscal year, so an October 2026 recall carries a 2027 path.

Hazards. Each recall is flagged for fire, carbon monoxide, shock or electrocution, burn or scald and explosion when the CPSC title or hazard text names them, using word-boundary matching so that gas-fired and burner do not count as fire or burn. Three older notices that describe ignition without the word fire were flagged by hand. A recall can carry several flags.

Conflicts. Where the API and the recall page differ, the recall page wins (one case: Canada units in recall 24080). Where both carry a typing error (recall 24018 reads 'About 17, 370'), we read it as 17,370 and say so. Large recalls cited by name were checked against the saved cpsc.gov page.

Derived metrics are in derived_metrics.csv and every recall with its coding is in the registry CSV. Scripts in scripts/ rebuild all tables from the saved raw files without network access. Last updated 2 November 2026; we plan to re-run the download after each quarter. Owners who want a valuation can use the free valuation form; nothing in this report depends on it.

This report presents published data with its limitations. It is not legal, financial or investment advice.

Sources, ranked by quality

Tier 1: primary and official sources (44)

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• [26] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 14179: Gree Reannounces Dehumidifier Recall Due to Serious Fire and Burn Hazards; More Fires and Property Damage Reported. 2014-05-15. Accessed 2026-11-02.
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• [28] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 03003: CPSC, Invensys Building Systems Announce Recall of Siebe Actuators in Building Fire/Smoke Dampers. 2002-10-02. Accessed 2026-11-02.
• [29] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 03502: CPSC, Invensys Building Systems Announce Recall of Siebe Actuators in Building Fire/Smoke Dampers. 2002-10-02. Accessed 2026-11-02.
• [30] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 25093: Vornado Air Recalls VH2 Whole Room Heaters Due to Electric Shock and Fire Hazards; Sold Exclusively on Amazon.com. 2025-01-16. Accessed 2026-11-02.
• [31] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 25157: Triangle Tube Recalls Prestige and Aerco Esteem Gas Boilers Due to Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning Hazard; Two Deaths Reported. 2025-02-27. Accessed 2026-11-02.
• [32] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 25179: Meijer Recalls Konwin Desktop Heaters Due to Fire and Burn Hazards. 2025-03-13. Accessed 2026-11-02.
• [33] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 25325: HTP Brand Boilers Recalled Due to Fire and Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning Hazards and Risk of Serious Injury or Death; Made by NTI Boilers. 2025-06-05. Accessed 2026-11-02.
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• [35] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 25313: Rinnai America Recalls Boilers Due to Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning Hazard. 2025-06-05. Accessed 2026-11-02.
• [36] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 25441: Combi Boilers Recalled Due to Burn Hazard; Manufactured by IBC Technologies. 2025-08-21. Accessed 2026-11-02.
• [37] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 26532: Vornado Air Recalls SRTH Small Room Tower Heaters Due to Fire Hazard. 2026-06-04. Accessed 2026-11-02.
• [38] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 26539: Merkury Innovations Recalls Hot + Cool Heating and Cooling Fans Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire Hazard. 2026-06-11. Accessed 2026-11-02.
• [39] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 26581: Daikin Comfort Technologies Manufacturing Recalls Amana Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps Due to Risk of Serious Injury from Fire and Burns. 2026-06-25. Accessed 2026-11-02.
• [40] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 26711: Modine Manufacturing Company Recalls Airedale Heating and Cooling Ventilation Fans Due to Fire Hazard. 2026-08-20. Accessed 2026-11-02.
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• [42] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 26776: Friedrich Air Conditioning Recalls KÜHL Window Air Conditioners Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire and Burn Hazards. 2026-09-17. Accessed 2026-11-02.
• [43] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC recall 27051: NTI and HTP Brand Gas Boilers Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire, Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning and Impact Hazards; Manufactured by Ariston, formerly NTI Boilers. 2026-10-29. Accessed 2026-11-02.
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