Federal safety officials pulled about 195,000 JKMAX heated blankets and pads sold on Amazon after 53 burn injuries and hundreds of overheating reports that left products smoking, melting, or burning.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall on September 17, warning that internal wire heating elements can overheat and create fire and burn hazards. Consumers are told to stop using the products right away, not simply turn down the heat.
The Daily Mail reported that JKMAX received 577 reports of blankets smoking, melting, or burning because of those overheating elements, including the 53 burn injuries, according to the CPSC. The company is offering a full refund under recall number 26-778.
The products were sold on Amazon.com between September 2022 and July 2026. They were imported by Jiande Pengshuai Trading Co., Ltd., based in China.
Affected model numbers are JKMAX-002, JKMAX-7284B, JKMAX-6284B, JKMAX-10090B, and JKMAX-8490B. The model number appears on the back of a detachable white remote or on a white label on the packaging.
The blankets and heating pads came in blue, gray, brown, and red. They were sold in one-packs and two-packs, made of polyester, and offered in multiple sizes.
JKMAX is taking calls at 800-917-5732 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday, and by email at [email protected]. Amazon’s Recalls and Product Safety Alerts section also carries information for shoppers.
Marketplace records indicate the JKMAX brand has been selling through Amazon’s U.S. marketplace since at least 2021. The firm has also operated under names including JKMAX Pro and a Chinese business name, Jian De Shi Peng Shuai Mao Yi You Xian Gong Si.
This is not an isolated failure on the same marketplace. In July, the CPSC recalled about 178,000 OCTROT electric throws and blankets sold on Amazon. Those products were linked to 555 reports of melting, sparking, and smoking, including 27 fires and 15 burn or electrical shock injuries.
The OCTROT items were sold from August 2021 through December 2025 and were made in China.
That same month, the CPSC separately warned consumers to stop using Melinora electric heated blankets after five reports of smoking, melting, or burning, including one burn injury. Those blankets sold on Amazon from February 2025 through October 2025. The commission said manufacturer Leevana Inc. had not responded to requests for a recall or information.
Three different brands. The same sales channel. The same basic failure mode, electric bedding that overheats, smokes, melts, burns, or starts fires, hitting American households that ordered what looked like ordinary comfort products online.
By the time the CPSC posts a recall, the goods have often been shipping for years. JKMAX units moved from September 2022 onward. OCTROT units moved from August 2021. Melinora units moved through much of 2025. Injury and hazard reports piled up while the listings stayed live.
In the Melinora case, the manufacturer simply did not answer the federal requests. Shoppers were left with a warning instead of an organized recall. That is the softest form of “protection” a family can get after a product has already burned someone.
JKMAX is at least offering refunds. That still leaves the basic sequence intact: import, list, sell at scale on a major platform, collect hazard reports, then pull the item after the damage is counted.
The CPSC’s message on the JKMAX line is blunt. Stop use immediately. Do not keep running the blanket on a lower setting. The hazard is the overheating wire element itself.
Fifty-three burn injuries are not a paperwork glitch. Five hundred seventy-seven reports of smoking, melting, or burning are not a few bad units. Add the OCTROT tally, 555 hazard reports, 27 fires, 15 burn or shock injuries, and the Melinora warnings, and the pattern is hard to miss.
These were not obscure specialty devices. They were heated blankets and throws sold through Amazon to people who expected a warm bed, not a fire hazard in the sheets.
Chinese importers and marketplace sellers moved large volumes. Federal safety officials announced recalls and warnings after the reports came in. Households in between paid the price in smoke, melted fabric, and burned skin.
Anyone who owns a JKMAX unit from the listed models should pull it from service, contact the company for the refund under recall 26-778, and treat the prior OCTROT and Melinora alerts as a reason to check every electric blanket in the house.
Cheap comfort from a distant seller is no bargain when the wiring can melt in the night, and another Amazon heated-blanket recall should not be the only wake-up call families get.