Bar chart of oven recall hazards: number of CPSC recall notices for home ranges, wall ovens and cooktops naming burn, fire, burners turning on by themselves, gas leak, delayed ignition, tip-over and shock hazards, 2016 to 2026

Cooking Thanksgiving Dinner? We Analyzed 10 Years of Oven and Range Recalls to See What Problems Keep Showing Up

Thanksgiving is the one day a year many ovens run for hours straight. If your range came with the house, you may wonder whether it’s ever been recalled.

We didn’t test any ovens or build a model; this is a data analysis of public recall notices: we pulled every residential range, wall oven and cooktop recall from CPSC’s official recall database for the last 10 years and sorted them by hazard, fuel type and year. Recall counts tell you what problems have been found and fixed. They don’t tell you how reliable any brand is.

How we built the oven recall dataset

CPSC publishes every recall through a free public search tool. A search for “range” also returns off-road vehicles and golf trainers, so we read every result and kept only home cooking appliances, then tagged each notice with the hazards in CPSC’s own description. A notice can carry more than one tag.

Results: what the oven recall notices say

Units are counted once: the ZLINE gas range recall was announced three times and counts as about 30,000 units. A 2024 re-announcement of a 2009 Frigidaire and Kenmore recall (about 203,000 ranges) is left out of unit totals. Counted this way, the 22 notices cover about 2.1 million units.

Burns and fires lead because they’re the end result of several different faults. The more useful pattern in oven recall notices is the cause. Eight notices involved a burner or element that could turn on, or stay on, without the owner meaning it to. Most of those were front-mounted knobs that a hip, a child or a pet could bump. Two of them, Samsung slide-in electric ranges in 2024 and LG electric ranges in 2025, covered about 1.6 million units between them, which is why that category dominates the unit totals.

Gas problems were less common by units but serious: six notices for gas leaks or carbon monoxide and three for delayed ignition, where gas builds up before the burner lights. The largest delayed-ignition oven recall in our data came in March 2026, about 174,800 Frigidaire gas ranges.

By year, oven recall notices were rare from 2016 through 2020, with four in five years and none in 2020. From 2021 through 2025 there were 14, and 2026 has four so far. Gas models made up most notices in 2022, 2023 and 2026; electric models led in 2024.

That rise doesn’t prove ranges got worse. Recall counts depend on how many models are sold, how quickly problems get reported, and how CPSC and manufacturers handle each case. Three of the 22 notices are expansions or re-announcements of earlier recalls.

Recent range and oven recall notices, 2024–2026

This table lists recall notices from the last three years in our data, with CPSC’s official remedy. Always confirm details on the CPSC notice for your model.

How to check whether your range or oven is under recall

Checking for an oven recall takes about five minutes, and it’s worth doing before a big cooking day.

  • Find the model and serial number. They’re on a rating plate or label, often on the frame behind the storage drawer or around the oven door opening. Your owner’s manual shows the exact spot. Take a photo of it.
  • Search CPSC. Go to CPSC.gov/Recalls and search the brand and product type, such as “gas range.” Open each notice and compare your model and serial number with the list.
  • Check the manufacturer. Most brands have a recall or safety page where you can enter your model and serial number directly.
  • Register your appliance. Registering with the manufacturer is how they reach you if a recall is announced later. CPSC also offers recall email alerts.
  • Report a problem. If your range does something unsafe and you can’t find a recall, report it at SaferProducts.gov.

If you find an oven recall for your model, follow the remedy in the notice. Many remedies are free in-home repairs arranged by the manufacturer, and some tell you to stop using the oven or the gas burners until the fix is done.

What this means for your home

  • A recall-free model isn’t automatically safe, and a recalled one isn’t a bad brand. Use the check above for your specific model.
  • Lock or guard front knobs. Several recalls involved knobs turned on by accident. If your range has a control lock, use it when the range is off, especially with kids or pets.
  • Pay attention to how a gas oven lights. A loud “whoomp,” a flame that rolls out, or a long wait before the burner lights are signs to stop and have it checked.
  • Check the anti-tip bracket. CPSC says the bracket should be attached securely to the wall or floor, with the range held securely in it.

If your oven is slow to heat, won’t hold temperature or won’t light, and it isn’t on any oven recall list, that’s an ordinary repair question. Our oven and range repair page covers the most common faults.

What oven recall counts can’t tell you

  • Counts aren’t failure rates. A brand that sells millions of ranges will have more exposure than a small one. We didn’t rank brands and you shouldn’t either.
  • The search isn’t perfect. CPSC’s API matches words in product names. Our own filter missed three real recalls until we checked by hand, so other recalls may exist that our searches didn’t return.
  • Units are approximate. CPSC states them as free text, such as “About 44,000,” and they usually cover U.S. sales only.
  • Old recalls still matter. A recall announced before 2016 isn’t in our count, but it can still apply to a range in your kitchen.
  • Countertop ovens are separate. We left out toaster ovens, air fryers and countertop ovens, which have their own recalls.

Safety first

If an oven recall notice tells you to stop using your oven or burners, do that until the remedy is complete, even if it seems to work fine. If you smell gas, Washington Gas says to leave the area, move to a safe location, call 911 and then call its emergency leak line. Don’t light a flame or operate switches on the way out. For gas, 240-volt wiring and internal parts, leave the repair to the manufacturer’s technician or a qualified pro.

Oven and range repair in Northern Virginia

The weeks before Thanksgiving are when we hear from the most people whose ovens won’t heat or hold temperature. Woodland handles oven and range repair across Prince William, Fairfax, Loudoun and Fauquier counties, plus Arlington and Alexandria. We’re based in Woodbridge, so Woodbridge, Manassas, Dumfries and Lorton are usually same-day calls, and we’re in Fairfax, Centreville, Springfield, Arlington and Alexandria every week. See our oven and range repair page or call (703) 335-1009.

Sources and methodology

Methodology: we queried the CPSC Recalls API for the product names “range,” “oven,” “stove” and “cooktop” with recall dates from January 1, 2016 through October 1, 2026, removed duplicates and unrelated products, and hand-checked the result against fresh API queries. Hazard tags come from CPSC’s hazard text; a notice can have several. Unit totals count expansions and re-announcements once and exclude the 2024 re-announcement of a 2009 recall.

This is a count of official oven recall notices, not a measure of how often ovens fail. We didn’t rank or compare brands. Recall details can change; the CPSC notice for your model is the final word.

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