Sauna maker recalls 53,000 units after fire risk and a failed bench-collapse fix

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced two recalls affecting more than 53,000 sauna units on Wednesday, both tied to the Minnesota-based importer Sauna360 Inc. One recall covers infrared saunas whose internal panels can short-circuit and catch fire. The other is an emergency expansion of a bench-collapse recall first issued last October, after the company acknowledged that the fix it offered consumers did not work.

Neither notice was framed as an isolated incident. Together they describe two unrelated hardware failures across several sauna product lines sold under the Sauna360 umbrella, spanning more than a decade of sales and price points as high as $13,000.

The numbers

In a recall notice posted to the CPSC's site, the agency said roughly 41,580 infrared saunas, hybrid infrared saunas and infrared retrofit kits were sold in the United States, plus another 6,758 in Canada, under the Finnleo, Helo, Radiant Health, Sauna360, Saunatec, Tylo and Tylohelo brand names. The company has received 67 reports of units overheating, melting, charring or burning; no injuries have been reported. The affected products were sold between May 2013 and July 2026 through Costco stores, Costco.com, pool and spa dealers and other retailers, for $6,000 to $13,000 apiece.

The second action, covering Tylö Halmstad and Kiruna Hybrid sauna models, is smaller in unit count but more severe in outcome. Sauna360 first recalled about 1,000 of these units in October 2025 after seven reports of collapsing benches, including one consumer who suffered head and neck injuries, according to the original recall filing. In the expanded recall announced this week, the CPSC said the repair offered under that earlier action proved ineffective. Sauna360 has since logged 77 additional reports of bench failures and six more injuries, including another head-and-neck injury and a sprained ankle, across roughly 6,000 additional units sold between July 2024 and July 2026 for $6,000 to $12,000.

"The saunas contain a bench that can collapse, posing a fall hazard to consumers."

That is the hazard description the CPSC has now published twice for the same sauna models, eleven months apart.

How a home-wellness boom collided with a safety fix that didn't hold

The recalls land in the middle of a sustained run-up in home sauna sales. Market analysts at Grand View Research put the global sauna market at roughly $1 billion in 2026, up from $954 million the year before, with residential installations accounting for nearly 59 percent of revenue and infrared models the fastest-growing segment as households convert spare rooms, garages and backyards into private recovery spaces. Traditional saunas still hold the largest single share of the market, at close to 43 percent, but infrared units are forecast to grow at roughly 7.5 percent a year through 2033, outpacing every other category as buyers favor lower running temperatures and shorter warm-up times. Europe remains the single largest regional market, but the residential boom driving these recalls is playing out in the U.S. too: Grand View Research separately estimates the domestic sauna market at $206 million in 2025, growing toward $311 million by 2033, with garage and basement installations increasingly common. The category has ridden the broader wellness industry's shift toward at-home routines — cold plunges, red-light panels, recovery rooms — that let people replicate spa or gym amenities without leaving the house.

Sauna360, which owns or licenses several of the affected brand names, has been part of that expansion, selling both traditional and infrared units through big-box retailers and specialty dealers. The bench failures were first flagged to regulators nearly a year ago, and the company's initial remedy — approved and publicized alongside the October 2025 recall — was supposed to have resolved the defect. That it did not, prompting a second, larger recall with a different repair, is the detail that separates this case from a routine product recall: it is a rare instance of a CPSC-sanctioned fix failing in the field widely enough to trigger a redo.

Who is affected

Owners of Tylö Halmstad 2, 3 and 4 and Tylö Kiruna Hybrid 2 and 3 models, and of the broader range of infrared saunas and retrofit kits sold under the Finnleo, Helo, Radiant Health, Sauna360, Saunatec and Tylohelo names, are covered by one or both actions. Because many of these products were installed as built-in home fixtures rather than portable units, the CPSC's remedy for both recalls is an in-home repair rather than a return: a professional installer retrofits the bench with additional hardware and supports, or repairs the wiring and panels in the infrared units, at no cost to the owner. Consumers are instructed to stop using the affected saunas immediately until that repair is completed.

What comes next

Sauna360 is directing owners to its own recall information page, by phone at 866-936-5962 or by email, to schedule the free repairs under either recall. The company has not said how long the retrofit program will take to reach the roughly 12,000 households now covered by the two Tylö bench recalls combined, or the more than 48,000 infrared-sauna owners in the U.S. and Canada. The CPSC continues to log new incident reports on both product lines through its public recall database, and a second failed repair on the bench defect would be unusual enough that consumer-safety attorneys and regulators are likely to watch the retrofit's results closely before considering the matter closed. For an industry built on the promise of relaxation and recovery, two safety notices on the same product line within a year is the kind of headline the sector's fastest-growing segment can ill afford.