How-To
Getting Started With Your Yukon Smokeless Fire Pit
Jan 24, 2025Solo Stove Smokeless Fire Pits can burn at temperatures above 800 degrees. Please use Solo Stoves in outdoor environments only.
Best Tips for Lighting Your Smokeless Fire Pit
You’re only a few simple steps away from starting a roaring fire in your Solo Stove.
What you will need:
3 fire starters.
A long-nosed lighter or long matchstick.
Kindling or firewood cut into thinner pieces
Firewood
Solo Stove Yukon Smokeless Firepit lighting instructions:
Step 1:
Ensure the Yukon is placed on a level surface. Flip the fame ring to where the lip faces upwards.
Note: Your ring will arrive in the position seen in A above, place it back this way for storage and travel. Be sure to flip the fame ring before use, as doing so ensures oxygen flow through upper vent holes. (formatting as a notepad pin maybe)
Step 2:
To begin, create a rectangle at the bottom of the fire pit. Place one of the fire starters in the center.
Then place two more fire starters on either end of the center rectangle and add another thin piece of firewood overtop of the center fire starter.
Then, begin to create a pyramid over the center piece of firewood, laying the smaller pieces of firewood over the center piece.
Once the pyramid is assembled, light your firestarters.
Once the firestarters are lit, give the smaller wood some time to catch and develop an ember bed before adding any larger wood pieces.
Finally, go ahead and add in your larger firewood pieces, taking care to not add too many, which may suffocate the fire.
With the SoloStove pellet adapter, you can get a roaring fire going with wood pellets in no time. Simply load a bag of wood pellets into the pellet adapter, place a firestarter on top, and light the firestarter to get your pellet fire going.

Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: Why is my fire smoking inside my SoloStove?
A: Often times fire can smoke inside a SoloStove due to a few reasons such as wood not being fully dried or the wood being stuffed too tightly and choking out the fire, preventing it from burning hot enough due to a lack of oxygen flow.
Q: Why is my fire not lighting?
A: Some issues may prevent the fire from lighting, the most common being the firestarter or wood being too wet or damp.
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