best stove and fireplace companies

Ranking stove and fireplace companies is a very difficult and rather impossible task. Even the best manufacturers may have medium and poor-quality units, their reputation can result from models they sold some years or decades ago, and their number is very high and they have a very diverse offer....

The list of companies we show in this page is not an endorsement one. It’s just a small list (with lapses) of some of the best and most reputable companies...

Stoves vs. fireplace companies

There isn't a true dividing line between stoves and fireplaces. The new technology has blurred it... New fireplaces (inserts) use the stove technology, and there aren't significant differences between wood stoves and wood fireplace inserts, or between gas and pellet units. The manufacturers are, for this reason, often the same.

Some of the bigger and best stove and fireplace companies have a wide offer. Many of them offer wood, gas and pellet stoves and fireplaces; but there are others with a limited offer, and the number of those selling electric units is very small.

Choice criteria

If shopping for a wood fireplace pay attention to the EPA list of the cleaner and best wood fireplaces and companies: EPA Cleaner fireplaces. In USA and Canada qualified wood fireplaces have a white tag.

In USA or Canada it’s easy to get qualified wood stoves: they also have an EPA white label.

To compare wood stoves look for their certification and pay close attention to their emission; a lower grams/hour rating means a cleaner and more efficient unit. For a list of qualified wood stoves and wood stove manufacturers, see: EPA-certified wood stoves (PDF)

Look also for the safety labels of testing and certification bodies like UL and ULC, or the emissions standards of the state of Washington for stoves and fireplaces (they are very strict).

You may also take a look to the awards given by Vesta to Hearth Products (including wood, pellet, gas, electric). You can see the winners for different years at Vesta awards...

Consumer Reports lists

Amazon.com is selling electric fireplaces and stoves as well as gas logs and gel fireplaces, with dozens of customer reviews. To take a look at them, see: Gel Fireplaces, Electric fireplaces and Gas Logs

The ConsumerSearch.com organization has some reports with the “best“ wood, corn, multi-fuel and budget pellet stoves. The reports have some years, but you may want to take a look at them here (the page has other links to related reports).

Electric stove and fireplace manufacturers

Dimplex and Napoleon Fireplaces are the best known manufacturers of electric stoves and fireplaces.

Wood, pellet, gas stove and fireplace manufacturers

England’s Stove Works
Wood stoves, pellet stoves, gas stoves

Harman Stoves
Wood and pellet stoves and fireplace inserts
Wood, gas and electric fireplaces

Hearthstone stoves
Wood, gas and pellet stoves

Jotul fireplaces and stoves
Wood, gas

Lennox
Wood, gas and pellet stoves, fireplaces and inserts

Napolean
Wood, gas, pellet, electric stoves and fireplaces, decorative gas log sets

QuadraFire
Wood, pellets, gas stoves and fireplace inserts

Rais stoves
Wood stoves, Vesta Award

Summers Heat (EnglanderStoves)
Pellet, wood, multi (budget)

Thelin Little Gnome
Pellet stoves, but also gas and wood, Vesta Award

Vermont Castings
Wood and gas fireplaces and stoves

Vozelgang stoves
Wood stoves

Woodstock
Wood and gas stoves

More Companies:

Appalachian Stoves
Avalon
Blaze King
Breckwell Hearth Products
Country Stoves
Dovre (UK)
DESA Heating Products
Energy King
Enviro
Hearthcore fireplaces
ICC Chimney
Kozy Heat Fireplaces
Kuma Stoves
Lopi Stoves
NU-TEC Incorporated
Regency fireplaces
Wittus