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Smoke Detector

Maybe

Shoppers spend $29.9M a year here. But the top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Smoke Detector is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
57
57 / 100
Top 15% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +9 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$29.9M/yr9.5M searches / yr
90-day growth
-11.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
51%top-5 click share · 4 brands · 67 sellers

Flapen Score

Smoke Detector against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Smoke Detector is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

57Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Smoke Detector market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Smoke Detector 9.5M times last year and spent an estimated $29.9M. All 4 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 57 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

6.7% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 9.5M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 6.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -11.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $29.9M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
9.5M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-11.8%
Conversion, latest week
6.7%
Market size, estimated
$29.9Ma year
Peak month
July1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
smoke detector3.4M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $46.76.

Listings sell for $46.76 on average, from $16.54 to $133.92. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 600K to 800K a year. The average listing sells 30,000 to 40,000 of them. At $46.76 that is $1.4M to $1.9M a year per listing.

Average price
$46.76inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$16.54–$133.92
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
600K–800K
Units per listing a year
30,000–40,000
Revenue per listing a year
$1.4M–$1.9M
Returns
2.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

96% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #11 within Fire Safety. It carries 1,603 reviews at 4.38 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
96%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
7.0%
Average rank
#11in Fire Safety
Average rating
4.38 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,603per listing
Listings tracked
26

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 2 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 2 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 46 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
46 months

Products

Top Smoke Detector products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 51% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$1.5M$3.0M$4.5M$6.0M1001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

4 flat

Sellers

67

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

51%

Top 20: 93%

Open market

0%

  • First Alert68%
  • Kidde18%
  • X-Sense13%
  • SITERWELL1%

Demand

Smoke Detector search demand

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

200K150KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Smoke Detector search terms shoppers use

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

  • smoke detector3.4M/yr
  • smoke detector carbon monoxide detector combo 10 year battery1.9M/yr
  • smoke and carbon monoxide detector788K/yr
  • smoke detector 10 year battery318K/yr
  • fire alarms smoke detectors487K/yr
  • smoke alarm500K/yr
  • smoke detectors355K/yr
  • carbon monoxide smoke detector combo207K/yr
  • fire alarm299K/yr
  • smoke alarms for home85K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Smoke Detector

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

27%of positive reviews mention “Assembly/Installation”
24%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
2.5%of orders come back
“Two failed within months”
A buyer, on “Durability”24% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Smoke Detector questions

Answered from the same tracked data.