Forest River Salem, Forest River Wildwood, model year 2027. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 10 September 2026. 60 vehicles potentially affected.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Forest River's own number for this recall: 06-2095. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V586 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A griddle stowed while the gas is still in use can increase the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V586 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Appliance:Oven/Stove/Cooktop |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 September 2026 |
| Model years | 2027-2027 |
| Vehicles named | FOREST RIVER SALEM, FOREST RIVER WILDWOOD |
What the notice says today
The defect
Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2027 Salem and Wildwood travel trailers. The exterior griddle may be stowed while still connected to the LP gas line.
The consequence
A griddle stowed while the gas is still in use can increase the risk of a fire.
The remedy
The remedy is currently under development. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 19, 2026. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-574-534-3167. Forest River's number for this recall is 06-2095.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 96f5d32a0d3301331c04773665dd4c0f…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V586, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v586/
The copy quoted above hashes to 96f5d32a0d3301331c04773665dd4c0f…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Forest River notices we hold
- 26V585: 2019-2022 Lone Star Vans built on Ram ProMaster chassis
- 26V563: 2027 Vibe recreational trailers
- 26V503: 2027 Leprechaun and Freelander recreational
- 26V477: 2026-2027 Pause travel trailers, and OG Luxury Coach recreational
- 26V476: 2027 Unmapped, Sabre, No Boundaries, Ibex, Surveyor, Sierra, and Sandpiper travel trailers
- 26V439: 2026-2027 Wildwood and Salem travel trailers
- 26V398: 2025-2026 NOBO, Ibex, and 2025-2027 RPOD recreational trailers
- 26V390: 2023-2024 XLR Toy Hauler recreational trailers
All 549 Forest River campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 26V586 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c1314350 - Consequence
4ba6f5a7 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 15 September 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
The wording we hold for 26V586 · how the whole register is watched
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