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Folding Stove

Fail

Demand is soft, at -64.5% this quarter, so Folding Stove is a Fail.

Flapen Score
43
43 / 100
Ranks 5,224 of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · −4 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$104K/yr161K searches / yr
90-day growth
-64.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
45%top-5 click share · 17 brands · 96 sellers

Flapen Score

Folding Stove against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Folding Stove is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

43Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Folding Stove market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Folding Stove 161K times last year and spent an estimated $104K. The top 5 brands take 77% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Oct. Flapen scores it 43 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 161K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -64.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $104K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
161K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-64.5%
Conversion, latest week
2.5%
Market size, estimated
$104Ka year
Peak month
January3.9× the quietest month
Top search term
esbit stove33K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $25.16.

Listings sell for $25.16 on average, from $5.73 to $81.82. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $25.16 that is $3K to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$25.16inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.73–$81.82
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$6K
Returns
2.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

56% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 14.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #213 within Camp Kitchen. It carries 2,108 reviews at 4.52 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
56%
Prime listings
94%
Out of stock, average day
14.2%
Average rank
#213in Camp Kitchen
Average rating
4.52 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
2,108per listing
Listings tracked
34

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Folding Stove products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 45% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$4K$8K$12K$17K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

17 falling

Sellers

96

Est. top-5 brand share

77%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

45%

Top 20: 86%

Open market

18%

  • Esbit32%
  • Coghlan's23%
  • RecDec9%
  • Gas One7%
  • Sterno5%
  • Kuvik5%
  • Open — no brand owns it (11 brands, 18%)

Demand

Folding Stove search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

23K18KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.9×

Search terms

Top Folding Stove search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • esbit stove33K/yr
  • emergency stove39K/yr
  • survival stove19K/yr
  • esbit14K/yr
  • solid fuel stove10K/yr
  • emergency stove for indoor use13K/yr
  • candle stove11K/yr
  • emergency cooking stove7K/yr
  • emergency stove survival kit6K/yr
  • indoor camping stove5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Folding Stove

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

14%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
11%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
2.5%of orders come back
“It is a very loose fit”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”11% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Folding Stove questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data