Dreo recalls 339,000 space heaters sold at Costco after 17 fire reports

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled about 338,800 Dreo DR-HSH015 space heaters sold nationwide, after the agency said the ceramic units can overheat and ignite, posing fire and burn hazards. An additional 36,300 of the heaters were sold in Canada. The recall, designated 27-054 and announced October 29, arrives as much of the country turns on portable heating for the season.

The heaters were imported by Hesung Innovation Corp., doing business as Dreo, of Clifton, New Jersey, and manufactured in Vietnam. The recalled units are black ceramic heaters that come with a remote control and display the Dreo name on the front. They were sold under the Dreo brand and also marketed as the Whole-Room Heater 715, through Dreo's own website, Costco stores and Costco.com, and online at Best Buy, Kohl's, Lowe's, Home Depot, QVC and B2BRenew.com, from September 2025 through October 2026, at prices between $70 and $110.

The recall lands amid a broader cluster of federal product-safety actions this autumn, a pattern that tends to repeat each year as holiday shopping and colder weather both ramp up at once. The Dreo recall is specific to the DR-HSH015 model and the stated manufacturing window; consumers who own other Dreo heater models, or DR-HSH015 units made outside April 2025 to January 2026, are not affected, according to the CPSC notice.

What went wrong

According to the CPSC notice, Dreo has received 17 reports of the heaters igniting. Three of those incidents caused property damage, and one caused a burn injury to a person's hand. No deaths have been linked to the recalled units. The recall covers only heaters bearing the model number DR-HSH015 with a manufacture date between April 2025 and January 2026, printed in a YYYY/MM format on a label affixed to the underside of the unit; the Dreo name also appears on the front of the device. Heaters made outside that window, or under other model numbers, are not part of the recall.

• Product: Dreo DR-HSH015 ceramic electric space heater with remote control, roughly 11.5 inches wide and 13 inches tall, also sold as the Whole-Room Heater 715
• Units affected: about 338,800 in the United States and 36,300 in Canada
• Manufacture dates covered: April 2025 through January 2026 (check the label on the heater's underside)
• Sold: Dreo.com, Costco, BestBuy.com, Kohls.com, Lowes.com, HomeDepot.com, QVC.com and B2BRenew.com, September 2025 to October 2026, $70-$110
• Remedy: free replacement heater from Dreo; a receipt is not required

Independent outlets that first flagged the recall to consumers, including Techlicious and WBTV in Charlotte, noted that the recall's reach through a major warehouse retailer means the heaters likely ended up in a large number of households heading into winter.

A routine but persistent hazard

Portable heaters are a familiar source of home fires every winter. In a winter heating safety advisory issued in January 2025, the CPSC estimated that portable heaters are involved in roughly 1,600 fires, 70 deaths and 160 injuries in the United States each year, based on data from 2019 through 2021. The agency's standing guidance is to keep any portable heater at least three feet from bedding, furniture and curtains, to plug it directly into a wall outlet rather than an extension cord or power strip, and never to leave one running while sleeping or unattended.

Those general precautions do not address a manufacturing defect like the one described in the Dreo recall, which the CPSC attributes to the heater overheating on its own rather than to misuse. The agency's notice does not specify the internal cause of the overheating, such as a wiring or thermostat fault, beyond describing the ignition reports.

Who is affected, and what to do

Anyone who bought a Dreo DR-HSH015 heater in the covered manufacturing window is advised to stop using it immediately. The CPSC's instructions direct consumers to unplug the heater, cut its electrical cord to render it inoperable, and send Dreo a photograph of the disabled unit as proof before a free replacement is shipped. The company has said a sales receipt is not required to receive a replacement.

Consumers can reach Dreo toll-free at 833-820-0887, from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday, or by email at [email protected]. Registration and remedy instructions are also available through Dreo's website, under its product recalls section, or at recallrtr.com/spaceheater, the third-party recall-processing site the company is using for this case. The CPSC has separately cautioned that consumers should register only through Dreo's own official channels, since scammers have in the past impersonated product-safety outreach to harvest personal information. Consumers who have general questions, including those who are deaf or hard of hearing, can also call the CPSC's consumer hotline at 800-638-2772 or its TTY line at 800-638-8270.

What's next

The Dreo recall is one of several the CPSC posted in its most recent weekly batch, a reminder that the agency's running list of recalls is worth checking periodically, particularly for products bought for the colder months, such as space heaters, electric blankets and extension cords. The agency does not set a public deadline for the Dreo replacement program, and recalls of this kind typically remain open for consumers to claim a remedy indefinitely, though manufacturers can wind down support over time. Dreo has not said how many of the roughly 375,000 total units it expects to recover, and the CPSC's notice does not include a timeline for the agency to reassess the recall's effectiveness.