The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a warning on July 16, 2026, telling shoppers to stop using Melinora electric heated blankets immediately after five reports of the blankets smoking, melting, or burning through their own fabric. One of those incidents left a person with a documented burn injury.
Only about 700 of the gray, plug-in blankets were ever sold, all through Amazon.com, but the timing is what makes this warning land differently than most. It’s surfacing just as households nationwide start pulling heated blankets out of closets for the year’s first genuinely cold nights.
Key Points
- CPSC says the blankets’ internal wire heating elements can overheat and melt through the polyester fleece fabric, creating both burn and fire hazards.
- Five incident reports have been logged with the agency so far, including one confirmed burn injury.
- The blankets were sold exclusively on Amazon.com from February 2025 through October 2025.
- Manufactured by Leevana Inc., the blankets are gray and machine washable, made of polyester fleece, and shipped with an attached white remote offering 10 heat settings.
- This is a formal CPSC warning rather than a completed recall — a step the agency takes when it wants people to stop using a product before the full recall process runs its course.
What’s Included
- Melinora-branded electric heated blankets, sold in multiple sizes.
- Gray fleece exterior with an attached corded remote control offering 10 heat levels.
- Units purchased through Amazon between February and October 2025.
What Consumers Should Do
- Stop using the blanket immediately, even if yours hasn’t shown any signs of a problem yet.
- Unplug it and dispose of it rather than storing it away for later in the season — CPSC’s guidance specifically warns against continued use.
- Do not sell, donate, or give away the blanket to anyone else.
- If you experienced smoking, melting, burning, or an injury with this product, report it directly to SaferProducts.gov so the incident becomes part of the federal record.
- Inspect any other heated bedding you own for loose stitching, exposed wiring, or hot spots before its first use of the season, regardless of brand.
CPSC has not announced a refund or replacement program for the roughly 700 affected units, which sets this warning apart from a standard recall process. Consumers who bought a Melinora blanket on Amazon should check their order history now, before the item gets buried under holiday shopping or pulled back out on the season’s first frost without a second thought.
Five documented incidents out of a run of only about 700 units is a notably high failure rate for any home product, and the word CPSC chose — “immediately” — is language the agency reserves for its most urgent consumer warnings. As overnight temperatures keep dropping across the country, officials are treating this as a live hazard, not a paperwork formality.