Solo Stove Bonfire 2.0
The default smokeless pit, examined on what Solo Stove and its retailers actually publish — including where they disagree with each other.
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19.5 inches of 304 stainless, roughly 21 lb, with a removable ash pan and a lifetime warranty that covers defects but not rust. It is the pit most people should buy, and its two real limitations are a 17.5 in chamber that will not comfortably take standard firewood and a warranty that excludes the failure mode owners actually hit.
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| 1 | Solo StovePhoto via Amazon 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 | Check price 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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The weight discrepancy is worth a paragraph
This is a small thing that says something larger. Retail listings for the Bonfire 2.0 give its weight as 20 lb, 21.75 lb and 23.3 lb depending where you look, and OutdoorGearLab, which buys and weighs the units it reviews, recorded 21.2 lb. Some of that spread is bundles — a stand adds weight — but not all of it, and the same SKU appears with different figures on different sites.
It matters here because weight is one of the specifications that decides whether the pit works for you: whether one person can carry it off a deck, whether it goes in a car. We show both the measured figure and the listing range rather than picking one, because picking one would be presenting a guess as a fact. That is the whole method in miniature — how we research.
What the lifetime warranty actually covers
Solo Stove warrants its stainless fire pits for the lifetime of the product against manufacturing and material defects. That is a genuinely strong warranty and it is longer than most of this category offers. What it does not cover is normal wear, misuse, or rust.
Read that alongside the material. 304 stainless does not rust in normal conditions — that is the point of it — so the exclusion is not as hollow as it first sounds. But stainless does pit in chloride-heavy air, which is to say near the coast or anywhere road salt reaches, and that is precisely the failure mode a coastal owner will experience. The warranty is honest about it. Factor it in if you live within sight of salt water.
The chamber, and the firewood problem
17.5 inches of inner diameter with a stated maximum log length of 16 inches means the pit accepts a standard split, singly, placed carefully. It does not mean you can lay two across each other, which is how most people build a fire. In practice, owners either cut wood down or accept a smaller, more frequently fed fire.
If that sounds like a problem, the Yukon at 27 inches solves it entirely and weighs 38 lb doing so. If it sounds fine, it probably is — the Bonfire's size is the reason it is the model most people buy. Sizing, and what fits what.
Where it can go
Under the fire code the Bonfire is a portable outdoor fireplace, not a recreational fire — it is a manufactured, solid-fuel-burning fireplace of noncombustible material. That puts it under IFC 307.4.3 rather than 307.4.2, which is a 15 ft clearance rather than 25 ft, with an exception for one- and two-family dwellings. Your local authority can be stricter, and the manufacturer's own instruction applies regardless. The full clearance table.
Alternatives worth a look
- [Breeo X24](/smokeless-fire-pits/breeo-x24) — bigger, heavier, corten, built to cook on. The comparison.
- Solo Stove Yukon 2.0 — the same pit at 27 in, for groups and full-length splits.
- Solo Stove Ranger 2.0 — 15 lb and 15 in, for a small patio or a car.
- TIKI 25 in — much more diameter for the money, with a powder coat instead of bare stainless.
- Every figure is the manufacturer's or a retailer's published number, cited individually.
- Where sources disagree, both figures are shown rather than one being picked.
- What we did not do: burn it, weigh it, time it, or measure anything.
We have not burned any of these units, and we do not claim to have. The full method, including what it cannot tell you.