Solo Stove Bonfire vs Yukon
These are not two products, they are one product at two diameters. The decision is space and firewood, not features.
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Same 304 stainless, same lifetime-defects warranty, same removable ash pan. The Bonfire is 19.5 in and 21.2 lb; the Yukon is 27 in and 38 lb. That is 1.92x the fire area and roughly twice the firewood. Buy on the space you have, not on the specification sheet.
| # | Product | Best for | Key spec | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Solo Stove Bonfire 2.0The default smokeless pit: 19.5 in of 304 stainless, light enough for one person to move, and the only unit in this set whose ash pan makes cleanup a 30-second job. | Most backyards | 304 stainless steel | $349.99 · View on Amazon |
| 2 |  Solo Stove Yukon 2.0The same stainless construction as the Bonfire at 27 in, which is the size where you stop cutting firewood down and start putting full splits in whole. | Six or more people | 304 stainless steel | $499.99 · View on Amazon |
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Solo Stove Bonfire 2.0
Solo StoveThe default smokeless pit: 19.5 in of 304 stainless, light enough for one person to move, and the only unit in this set whose ash pan makes cleanup a 30-second job.
The default smokeless pit: 19.5 in of 304 stainless, light enough for one person to move, and the only unit in this set whose ash pan makes cleanup a 30-second job.
- 304 stainless resists the pitting that kills painted carbon-steel pits in two seasons
- Removable ash pan and base plate, so the cleanup path is genuinely short
- Light enough that one person moves it off a deck before a storm
- The largest accessory range in the category, so a cooking or lid upgrade exists later
- 17.5 in of usable chamber means standard 16 in firewood often needs splitting down
- The warranty excludes rust, which is the failure mode most owners actually hit
- Published weight varies by 3 lb across retail listings for the same product
A patio or backyard where the pit gets moved a few times a season and cleanup speed matters more than raw fire volume.
You burn full 16 in splits without cutting them down, or you want a pit that doubles as a cooking surface. The Breeo does that better.
We have not burned this unit. These are the things a specification sheet cannot answer, listed rather than glossed over.
- How much smoke reduction you get in practice. It depends on wood moisture, wind and load, and no published figure covers your yard
- Long-run finish durability on the ceramic-coated colorways
- Real burn time on a full load. OutdoorGearLab's 60-minute figure is one test, not a specification
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Solo Stove Yukon 2.0
Solo StoveThe same stainless construction as the Bonfire at 27 in, which is the size where you stop cutting firewood down and start putting full splits in whole.
The same stainless construction as the Bonfire at 27 in, which is the size where you stop cutting firewood down and start putting full splits in whole.
- 27 in takes a full 16 in split without cutting, which changes how much work an evening is
- Radiant output scales with fire area, and this is roughly twice the Bonfire's
- Same warranty and same stainless as the smaller units
- 38 lb is a two-person lift once it has ash in it
- It burns wood proportionally faster: bigger fire, bigger woodpile
- Too much pit for a small patio, where the clearance math gets tight fast
A yard with room for a 7 ft circle of clear ground and a group that actually fills the seats.
Your usable space is a patio under 12 ft across. Read the clearance table before you buy the big one.
We have not burned this unit. These are the things a specification sheet cannot answer, listed rather than glossed over.
- Whether the extra diameter meaningfully improves smoke reduction, or just makes a bigger fire
- How the ceramic-coated colorways hold up next to bare stainless over several seasons
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Why this comparison is unusually simple
Most head-to-heads in this category are between different philosophies — corten against stainless, gas against wood, a grate against a searing rim. This one is not. Solo Stove builds both of these from the same alloy in the same shape with the same warranty terms and the same ash pan. Strip the marketing away and exactly two numbers differ: diameter and weight.
That is genuinely useful, because it means you cannot get this decision wrong on quality. There is no version where the cheaper one is a compromise on build. You are buying a quantity of fire.
| Bonfire 2.0 | Yukon 2.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Outer diameter | 19.5 in | 27 in |
| Weight | 21.2 lb | 38 lb |
| Material | 304 stainless | 304 stainless |
| Ash pan | Removable | Removable |
| Warranty | Lifetime, defects only | Lifetime, defects only |
| Rust covered | No | No |
Published figures from the listings and the warranty terms. The Bonfire weight is the measured 21.2 lb; retail listings for it disagree with each other across a 3 lb spread, which is itself worth knowing.
The split-cutting question decides most of these
Firewood is generally sold cut to about 16 in. The Bonfire's usable chamber is 17.5 in across, which sounds like it clears that until you try to lay several splits in a fire rather than one. In practice most Bonfire owners end up cutting wood down at least some of the time. At 27 in the Yukon does not have the problem.
So the honest framing is not "how big a fire do you want" but "how do you want to spend the twenty minutes before the fire." If the answer is a saw and a splitting block, that is fine and the Bonfire is a fine pit. If it is not, that is what the upgrade buys. What to burn, and how it is sold.
(27 / 19.5)^2 = 1.38^2
1.92x the fire area
Weight is the specification people regret ignoring
21.2 lb is a one-person lift you will actually perform — off the lawn before a storm, into the garage for winter, across the yard when the seating moves. 38 lb is a two-person job, and more once the chamber holds cold ash. Neither pit is heavy in absolute terms, but only one of them gets moved on impulse.
This is also the clearance question in disguise. A pit you can move is a pit whose placement you can fix later; a pit you place once needs the clear radius worked out beforehand. The clearance table.
Which one for which space
- A patio, a townhouse yard, or anywhere the clear circle is tight — Bonfire, and consider the 15 in Ranger if it is tighter still. The patio list.
- Open ground, a group that fills the seats, full splits — Yukon. The backyard list.
- Undecided, and the pit will move around — Bonfire. The lighter pit forgives a placement you get wrong.
- Both pits are the same alloy, the same construction and the same warranty, so the comparison is deliberately narrow: diameter, weight, and what each costs to run.
- The fire-area ratio is our arithmetic from published diameters, shown in full.
- What we did not do: light either one, or measure heat at any distance.
We have not burned any of these units, and we do not claim to have. The full method, including what it cannot tell you.