More than 3.4 million vehicles on U.S. roads are sitting under an active “park outside” recall right now, according to Carfax’s recall tracker — the industry’s most urgent fire warning short of an outright stop-drive order. Two of the largest campaigns come from Jeep and Kia, covering nearly 800,000 vehicles combined for defects that can ignite a fire with the vehicle parked and the engine off.

Key Points

• More than 3.4 million U.S. vehicles currently carry an unrepaired “park outside” recall, per Carfax’s recall tracker.
• Jeep recall 25V-741 covers 320,065 Wrangler and Grand Cherokee plug-in hybrids for battery packs that can catch fire even while parked.
• Kia recall 26V430000 covers 462,869 Telluride SUVs (2020-2024) for power seat motors that can overheat and ignite — the second recall for the same defect.
• No permanent fix currently exists for the Jeep PHEV recall; NHTSA says the risk of fire is higher in a charged battery than a depleted one.

The Jeep recall, filed with NHTSA on November 4, 2025, covers 228,221 Wrangler 4xe models from 2020-2025 and 91,844 Grand Cherokee 4xe models from 2022-2026. Stellantis has documented 19 fires tied to battery packs with damaged cell separators — nine of them in vehicles that had already been through an earlier repair under a 2024 recall, meaning that fix didn’t hold for at least some owners. There’s no remedy available yet. Owners are told to park outside, away from structures and other vehicles, and to stop charging the battery entirely.

Kia’s version of the same problem is smaller but newer. The automaker’s July 9, 2026 filing covers 462,869 Telluride SUVs from the 2020-2024 model years. A stuck power-seat slide knob can keep the seat motor running continuously until it overheats, according to the recall notice. This is the second time Kia has recalled these Tellurides for the same issue — the 2024 fix didn’t solve it, and the new remedy adds an electronic fuse assembly designed to cut power before the motor gets hot enough to start a fire.

Those two recalls alone don’t come close to explaining Carfax’s 3.4-million-vehicle count — the tracker folds in dozens of older, still-open campaigns across nearly every major brand, some dating back years, where a chunk of the fleet never got repaired. For an owner, ignoring the notice isn’t a hypothetical risk: a garage fire from an unrepaired recall can total more than the vehicle itself, and insurers have denied claims tied to known, unaddressed safety defects. The repair itself is free. Finding out whether your car needs one takes about thirty seconds.

What Owners Should Do

• Enter your 17-character VIN at NHTSA’s free recall lookup tool (nhtsa.gov/recalls) to check for open recalls.
• If your vehicle is affected and unrepaired, park it outside and away from structures or other cars until the fix is done.
• For Jeep 4xe owners under recall 25V-741, stop charging the battery until a remedy is issued.
• Watch for a notification letter, or call your dealer directly rather than waiting for it to arrive.