Anker Battery Fire: Recalls, Hazards, and What Injured People Should Know

What the Anker Recall Notices Say About Battery Fire Hazards

A recall is a public action, announced here through the CPSC, in which a company offers a remedy such as a replacement for a product identified with a hazard. Each Anker notice below is stated as its own CPSC page states it.

CPSC recall 25-338, dated June 12, 2025, covers about 1,158,000 Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks, model A1263 only. The notice states that "the lithium-ion battery in the power bank can overheat, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers." The remedy is listed as "Replace." It reports that Anker "has received 19 reports of fires and explosions," including "two reports of minor burn injuries not requiring medical attention and 11 reports of property damage totaling over $60,700."

CPSC recall 25-056, dated December 5, 2024, covers about 69,000 speakers, plus about 9,764 sold in Canada. It states that the lithium-ion batteries in the A3102 Anker Soundcore (black) and A3302 PowerConf S3 speakers "can overheat, posing a fire hazard." The remedy is "Replace." The firm reported "33 reports of incidents," some involving smoking and small fires, "including one minor burn injury."

CPSC recall 25-011, dated October 17, 2024, covers about 2,100 power banks. It states that the battery "can overheat, posing fire and burn hazards." The remedy is "Replace." The notice reports 28 incidents and "two injuries which included first and second degree burns to the consumer's hands."

CPSC recall 24-146, dated March 7, 2024, covers about 5,480 EverFrost coolers, plus about 160 in Canada. It states that the batteries "can overheat, posing a fire hazard." The remedy is "Replace," and the notice says "No injuries have been reported."

Each notice also lists where the product was sold, for example the speaker notice's statement that those speakers were sold "Exclusively online at Amazon.com from March 2023 through October 2023."

For someone who owns one of these products or was hurt near one, these records matter because they identify a specific hazard in specific models. They also have limits. A recall is not a defect finding, and an incident report is not proven causation. None of these notices finds that any product caused any particular injury, and none applies beyond the models it names.

What If Your Anker Device Isn't the Recalled Model?

Anker Innovations Limited is the company the CPSC notices name. The two power bank notices and the cooler notice list it as the manufacturer: "of China" in the June 2025 notice and "of Hong Kong, China" or "of Hong Kong" in the others. The speaker notice lists it as the importer, "of Hong Kong." All four notices state the products were manufactured in China.

The products in the Anker battery recall notices are these:

• Power banks: the Anker PowerCore 10000, model A1263, and separately Anker power banks with model numbers A1642, A1647 and A1652.
• Bluetooth speakers: the lithium-ion battery packs in Anker Soundcore and PowerConf speakers with models A3102016, A3302011 and A3302031.
• Portable coolers: the battery packs in EverFrost Powered Coolers 30 (A17A0), 40 (A17A1) and 50 (A17A2), and the detachable battery pack A17B0.

The October 2024 notice describes those power banks as portable charging devices for smartphones, tablets and laptops, with maximum outputs of 12W (A1642), 15W (A1647) and 20W (A1652). The cooler notice describes products "intended for use in outdoor camping, travel and fishing for cooling and freezing food or medicine."

An Anker recall applies only to the models, and in the June 2025 notice only to the serial numbers, it identifies. If a device is a different Anker model, the absence of a recall does not settle anything either way about a fire; it simply means these notices cannot be relied on to connect that device to a stated hazard. In that position, other records, such as the device itself and how it was used, carry more of the weight. For readers comparing brands, a separate page covers the INIU power bank recall.

Why a Battery Can Catch Fire Without Warning, and What That Means for a Claim

Thermal runaway is a self-reinforcing cycle inside a lithium-ion cell: the cell heats, the heat drives chemical reactions that release more heat, and once the cycle starts it can feed itself until the cell vents, catches fire or bursts. This is why a battery fire can seem to start from nothing and spread quickly, which many people who lived through one describe.

Most such devices contain a battery management system, or BMS: the circuitry that watches the cells' voltage, current and temperature and is meant to cut off charging or discharging when something goes out of range. In general terms, thermal runaway can begin with damage to a cell, overcharging, or an internal short circuit, in which the separator between the cell's positive and negative sides fails.

When a battery fails like this, the law asks which kind of problem caused it. A design defect means the product was built as intended but the design itself carries a risk. A manufacturing defect means the particular unit came out differently from its design, for example through a production error. A warning defect means the instructions or warnings did not adequately address a risk. The federal regulation that explains what companies must report to the CPSC, 16 C.F.R. § 1115.4, describes the same idea for reporting purposes: "a defect is a fault, flaw, or irregularity that causes weakness, failure, or inadequacy in form or function," and it "can also occur in a product's contents, construction, finish, packaging, warnings, and/or instructions."

The notices do not state a mechanism beyond overheating batteries. For someone holding a burned device, the distinction still matters, because each kind of defect points toward different evidence: a design question toward the model, a single faulty unit toward the device's remains, a missing warning toward the instructions that came in the box. A device thrown away after a fire may take with it the evidence that answers which question applies.

How to Check Whether Your Anker Product Was Recalled

The notices themselves explain how to identify the covered products. For the PowerCore 10000, the June 2025 notice says the model number "A1263" and serial number are printed on the bottom, and that "only model number A1263 power banks sold in the U.S. with qualifying serial numbers are included," with serial numbers checked at anker.com/product-recalls. For the speakers, the notice says the "SN Code" on the underside can be typed into Anker's recall pages for the A3102 and A3302. The October 2024 power banks carry model numbers A1642, A1647 or A1652 on the back. The cooler's model number is printed on the bottom.

Each notice states its own remedy. The June 2025 power bank notice says consumers should "immediately stop using the recalled power banks" and contact Anker Innovations for "a free replacement power bank," and that a replacement requires a photo showing the model number, serial number, the owner's name, the date and the word "recalled" written in permanent marker, plus confirmation of disposal. It says a receipt "will be requested but will not be required." The October 2024 notice describes a free replacement power bank after registering. The speaker notice describes "a replacement speaker free of charge." The cooler notice describes "a free replacement lithium-ion battery pack."

The notices also say these batteries should not go in the trash, and they describe disposal through local hazardous waste or recycling procedures.

A recall remedy replaces a product. It is separate from an injury claim, which state law governs. Someone hurt before ever hearing of a recall is in a different position from someone who simply owns a recalled unit. And because the June 2025 remedy involves marking and disposing of the power bank, someone who was hurt is weighing more than a replacement when deciding what becomes of the product itself.

Whether a Burn Injury Can Be Tied to the Product: What the Law Asks

Product liability is the area of law that decides when a company that made or sold a product is legally responsible for harm the product caused. Three theories usually come up after a battery fire. Strict liability asks whether the product was defective, regardless of how careful the company was. Negligence asks whether a company failed to use reasonable care. Failure to warn asks whether the warnings and instructions were adequate.

Under any of these theories, an injured person generally has to show three things: that the product had a defect, that the defect caused the injury, and that harm resulted. If the device was recalled, the recall can bear on the first question, but it does not answer it, and it never answers the second. Whether a particular fire came from a covered battery, from a different product or from something else in the room is a factual question, and it is often where a claim succeeds or fails. In practice, that means the burned device, the purchase record and the account of where it was charging can matter as much as any recall notice.

Federal law runs alongside this. Under 15 U.S.C. § 2064, a manufacturer, distributor or retailer that obtains information which "reasonably supports the conclusion" that a product triggers the statute's reporting duty must "immediately inform the Commission," unless it has "actual knowledge" that the Commission has been adequately informed. The triggers include that the product fails to comply with an applicable consumer product safety rule or other rule, regulation, standard, or ban enforced by the Commission, contains a defect which could create a substantial product hazard, or "creates an unreasonable risk of serious injury or death." That reporting duty is a regulatory duty to the CPSC, separate from the injury claim itself.

The rules differ from state to state: who may be sued, how fault shared by several people is divided, and what damages the law may allow. One state's rules are collected on the California lithium battery injury page, and they are California's alone. A case evaluation is a conversation with our attorney about what happened, which state's law applies, and what evidence links the device to the fire.

Why the Filing Deadline Depends on Your State

A statute of limitations is the law that sets how long a person has to file a lawsuit. There is no single national deadline for a battery fire injury. Each state sets its own periods for personal injury and property damage claims.

Wrongful death, a claim brought by family members or an estate when someone dies because of another's wrongful conduct, has its own limitation rules, and those also differ by state.

What starts a period running, and what can pause or extend it, is set by each state's own statute and the exceptions in it. A claim filed after the period a state's law allows can be barred, however strong the facts. That is the concrete stake for someone recovering from burns, or a family dealing with a loss, at a time when legal deadlines are the last thing on their mind.

Because the rule depends on the state where the fire happened and on the facts, this page states no period. The date of the fire, the date injuries were first treated and the state involved are the details a conversation with an attorney usually starts from.

Records That Often Matter After a Battery Fire Injury

The records that usually matter begin with the product itself, whether it is a power bank, a speaker, a cooler or its battery pack, even burned or broken. A battery's remains can be relevant to understanding how it failed, and markings such as a model or serial number, the kind of identifiers the Anker notices rely on, can connect a device to a specific notice. If the device is lost or discarded, that link can be harder to show.

Purchase records come next: a receipt, an order history, a gift record or a credit card statement can help show which product it was and when it was bought. The June 2025 notice's sale window, from June 2016 through December 2022, shows why dates can matter in matching a product to a notice.

Medical records document the injuries, from first treatment through follow-up care. Photographs and video of the device, the burns and the scene record conditions that change after a fire. Fire department, police or insurance incident reports describe what responders saw. The names of people who were present, or who saw smoke or flames, can help fill gaps in what happened.

Injured people and families often gather these records over time rather than all at once. Each one helps answer a different question: which product was involved, how it was used and charged, how the fire started and spread, and what harm followed.