What the AstroAI Mini Fridge Recall Means, and What to Check on Yours

On June 18, 2025, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced CPSC recall 25342: about 249,100 AstroAI mini fridges recalled because the electrical switch can short circuit, posing fire and burn hazards. Two of the fires on record together caused more than $360,000 in reported property damage. This guide explains which units are recalled, how to check the one you own, and what the free replacement requires. Every fact here comes from the official CPSC notice and the Fridge.com recall record; the full record for this notice lives on the Fridge.com page for CPSC recall 25342.

What Happened

AstroAI recalled its 4-liter, 6-can mini fridges — the small personal coolers sold mainly online for keeping drinks, snacks, or skincare within arm's reach. According to the notice, the unit's electrical switch can short circuit. The manufacturer listed on the notice is Shaoxing ShangYu North Electron Manufacture Co. Ltd. A short circuit in a compact plastic-bodied appliance that runs continuously is a fire path, and the incident record bears that out: CPSC has received at least 70 reports of the mini fridges smoking, burning, melting, or catching fire.

Which Mini Fridges Are Recalled

One model is involved, identified by model number and by serial-number prefix:

How to Check the Mini Fridge You Own

1. Unplug the unit and turn it around — the identification label is on the back.
2. Confirm the model number reads LY0204A. A different model number means this recall does not include your unit.
3. Find the serial number after the "S/N" marking — on the bottom or middle-right of the label — and read its opening digits.
4. If the serial begins with 19, 20, 21, 2201, 2202, or 2203, the unit is included: stop using it and follow the remedy steps below.

The serial prefixes track production periods, which is why a prefix is enough to settle inclusion — units made after the affected runs carry serials that start differently. Read the digits carefully: 2201 through 2203 are four-digit prefixes, so a serial starting 2204 or later is outside the recall even though it also starts with "22".

The Hazard, in Plain Terms

A mini fridge of this class is a sealed plastic shell around a powered cooling module, and its switch carries current whenever the unit is plugged in. When a switch shorts, the failure produces heat directly at a component surrounded by plastic — and the incident reports describe the full progression: smoking, melting, burning, catching fire. These units also live in the least fire-tolerant spots in a home: bedside tables, desks, dorm shelving, often against paper, fabric, or bedding, and often running overnight within reach of a sleeping owner. The two fires with more than $360,000 in combined reported damage show the ceiling on what a palm-sized appliance failure can cost.

Incidents on Record

According to the notice, CPSC has received at least 70 reports of the mini fridges smoking, burning, melting, or catching fire. Two fires resulted in extensive property damage, together totaling more than $360,000 in reported damages. The notice does not list injuries. Those are the incident facts on record; nothing beyond them should be assumed.

What to Do Now

The official remedy is a free replacement mini fridge. The notice sets out a specific claims process:

• Immediately stop using the recalled mini fridge.
• Write "Recalled" on the unit in permanent marker.
• Photograph the unit so the photo shows the model number, the serial number, and the word "Recalled" written on it.
• Send the photo to AstroAI by email at recall@astroai.com, or submit it through the online portal at astroai.com/product-recall.
• Dispose of the recalled unit in accordance with state and local waste disposal procedures.

The photo-and-marker protocol replaces shipping the unit back: the marked photo proves the recalled unit exists and is out of service, and disposal then happens locally. For questions, the notice lists AstroAI toll-free at 877-278-7624 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PT, Monday through Friday. The Fridge.com recall page for CPSC 25342 links the official notice.

Where the Units Were Sold

According to the CPSC notice, the recalled mini fridges were sold online at Amazon.com and Astroai.com from June 2019 through June 2022, for about $40. An online-only channel cuts both ways for a recall. It means many buyers can actually find the purchase in their order history — worth doing, since a three-to-six-year-old $40 gadget is exactly the kind of purchase memory discards. But it also means no shelf, no store signage, and no cashier ever surfaces the recall to an owner; the notice reaches only those who go looking or who get an email that survives their filters.

The Gift Problem

Small mini fridges are gift-shaped: cheap enough to give casually, novel enough to be given often. That matters for a recall because the owner of record and the actual user are frequently different people — the buyer got the recall email, the recipient got the fridge. If you gave one of these units to anyone between 2019 and 2022, the check above is worth forwarding; if you received one, the label on the back answers the question regardless of where it came from. The same logic applies to units that migrated to a second life in a garage, office, or dorm. A recall follows the serial number wherever the unit goes, and this one is settled by two reads off one label.

Skincare Fridges Are Appliances Too

Units of this class are widely marketed and used as cosmetics coolers, and that framing changes where they live: bathroom counters and vanity tables, near towels and tissue, plugged into outlets shared with hair tools. An owner who thinks of the unit as a beauty accessory rather than an appliance is the least likely person to imagine it as an ignition source — yet the failure the notice describes does not care what the unit stores. If a small cooler of any kind entered your home between 2019 and 2022, the two-line check applies: read the front for the brand, read the back for the model and serial.

How This Recall Fits the Record

The Fridge.com recall record, built on U.S. CPSC filings, lists this as the single AstroAI entry, from 2025, covering 249,100 units. It sits inside a clear cluster: between 2025 and 2026 the record also logs nearly a million recalled Curtis International Frigidaire-brand mini fridges with a closely related hazard — internal electrical components igniting the plastic housing. Fire is the most common hazard class across the whole record, and the compact-unit corner of the market contributed heavily to it in this period. The pattern is worth an owner's attention: if a low-cost mini fridge from these years is running in your home, checking it against the record takes minutes.

Three useful places to go deeper:

• The AstroAI recall record — the brand page with the official hazard, remedy, and source link.
• The Curtis International Frigidaire-brand mini fridge recall — the era's other large compact-unit fire action, with its own model list.
• The full Fridge.com recall record — every CPSC refrigeration recall tracked, newest first, refreshed from CPSC.gov.

Tracking Recalls for the Unit You Own

Each appliance tracked on Fridge.com carries a FIN — Fridge.com Identification Number — the permanent canonical ID that links each appliance across retailers, covering prices, specifications, and recall history. Product pages with a FIN carry a recall-alert signup: subscribe on the page for the model you own, and a new CPSC match against that FIN triggers an alert. For a product bought online years ago and possibly gifted since, an alert tied to the model — not to the purchase — is the channel that still works.

If a recalled unit leaves a gap to fill, the current compact market is cataloged at mini fridges and compact refrigerators, with specifications and price history per model.

The Short Version

• CPSC recall 25342, announced June 18, 2025 — about 249,100 AstroAI 4-liter/6-can mini fridges, model LY0204A, serial numbers beginning 19, 20, 21, 2201, 2202, or 2203.
• The hazard: the electrical switch can short circuit — fire and burn hazards, with at least 70 reports of smoking, burning, melting, or fire, and two fires totaling more than $360,000 in reported property damage.
• Check the label on the back: model LY0204A plus a listed serial prefix means the unit is included.
• The remedy is a free replacement: stop using the unit, mark it "Recalled", photograph the label and marking, submit via recall@astroai.com or the astroai.com recall portal, and dispose of the unit per state and local procedures.
• The units were sold online at Amazon.com and Astroai.com from June 2019 through June 2022 for about $40 — check order histories and forward the check to anyone you gifted one.

Sources: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recall notice 25342 (CPSC.gov) and the Fridge.com recall record.