This is written for someone planning a cold camp, a November deer camp for example, who is deciding whether a hot tent and a wood stove are worth the money and the risk. A hot tent is an ordinary tent with a reinforced opening for a stovepipe. The stove, the pipe and the fire-safe fabric around that opening are separate parts, and each one has a job.
The product facts below come from FireHiking's own product pages, which we read on 2026-10-16. We have not tested FireHiking's stoves or tents, and we have not used them. Where a page states a number, we say it is FireHiking's number.
Read this before you price anything
- A battery-powered carbon monoxide alarm inside the tent, tested before the trip, with spare batteries. FireHiking's own stove and tent pages say to use one.
- Ventilation open the whole time the stove is lit. A sealed tent with a fire in it is the dangerous case.
- A spark arrestor on top of the pipe. FireHiking says its arrestor stops a portion of the sparks, not all of them, so keep the fabric and your gear clear of the pipe anyway.
- A fire-safe floor area under and around the stove, with sleeping bags, boots, clothes and firewood kept well back.
- Never sleep with a roaring fire, and never leave a lit stove unattended. Let it burn down while you are awake.
- Heavy snow on a big tent can collapse it. Two FireHiking tent pages tell you to clear the snow in time.
Also check the rules for where you are camping. Fire restrictions and public-land rules can cover stoves in tents.
The parts, and what FireHiking says about each
| Part | What it does | What the FireHiking pages state |
|---|---|---|
| Stove jack | The patch of heat-resistant fabric the pipe passes through. It keeps hot pipe off the tent. | The separate jack is sold as silicone fiberglass that FireHiking says withstands 572°F / 300°C. It has a rain flap, measures 9 x 7.8 in (23 x 20 cm), attaches with Velcro, and you cut the hole to match your pipe. The tents ship with one. |
| Pipe | Carries smoke out of the tent. | The stainless sections are 2.36 in (6 cm) across, with 0.5 mm straight pipe and 0.35 mm elbows. The FireOne and FireOne Mini stoves ship with 8.2 ft of titanium pipe. FireHiking sells a separate titanium pipe that rolls up and says it "remembers" its shape after the first use. |
| Damper | Lets you slow the draft so the wood burns slower. | FireHiking says turning the handle opens and closes the damper, which controls the smoke leaving the stove and affects how fast the wood burns. |
| Spark arrestor | A mesh cap on the pipe to catch sparks and keep rain out. | Closed top surrounded by a mesh cavity, 3 rings for cords you supply. FireHiking states it stops "a portion of the sparks, NOT 100%." Each stove's packing list includes one. |
One thing to confirm before you mix parts: the stainless pipe pages give a 6 cm diameter, but the stove pages we read do not state the stove's outlet diameter. Ask FireHiking, or the seller, that a pipe fits the stove you pick. We could not verify it from the pages.
Reviews on FireHiking's own page for the FireOne stove include two buyers saying the titanium pipe was hard to roll the first time. We cannot verify those reviews, but it is a reason to practice at home, not at camp.
The tents, as FireHiking states them
| Tent | Stated capacity | Stated tent weight | Stated waterproofing |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEVA Solo | 1 person plus a stove, or 2 people (the page's word is "crowded") | 3.75 lb / 1.7 kg, plus 1.81 lb / 0.82 kg for the half inner tent | 2000mm |
| Fireyurt | 1 person with a stove, or 2 without | 2.5 kg / 5.5 lb | PU2500mm |
| LEVA 2-4 person | 2-4 people | 3.1 kg / 6.83 lb, plus 0.95 kg for the half inner tent | PU3000mm |
| LEVA Plus | 4-8 people, or 4-5 with the half inner tent | 5.1 kg / 11.24 lb, plus 1.86 kg for the half inner tent | PU3000mm |
Things the pages say that matter for a cold camp:
- FireHiking's LEVA Solo page says: "the product has not been tested in bad weather" and asks you not to use it in strong wind or heavy rain. That is the maker saying so, and it is worth weighing for a November trip.
- The LEVA 2-4 person tent is listed at 11.5 ft across and 6.9 ft high, with a 9.4 in (24 cm) stove jack. The 4-8 person LEVA Plus is 16.4 ft across with a 30 x 30 cm stove jack.
- The pages we read do not say whether these tents have a sewn-in floor. Check before you buy.
- FireHiking's Fireden and Firefort hot tents showed as out of stock on 2026-10-16, so we do not list them. Stock changes, so check before you plan around any of these.
Titanium stove or steel: weight against heat-holding
FireHiking's stoves in our set are all titanium. Its pages give these weights: the FireOne Mini at 1.55 kg (3.4 lb), and the larger FireOne at 2.82 kg (6.22 lb) product weight, made from 0.6 mm titanium. The two LANK stoves carry nearly the same text and numbers as the FireOne, including the same weight, so we cannot tell from the pages how they differ and we quote no weight for them: LANK Folding and the LANK Mini.
FireHiking's pages do not compare titanium with steel, and none of the pages we read states a heat output, a burn time per load, or the tent size a stove can heat. Everything in the table below is general knowledge about the two metals, not a measurement of any FireHiking stove.
| Thin titanium | Heavier steel | |
|---|---|---|
| You carry | Less weight | More weight |
| After the fire dies down | Cools quickly, so the tent cools quickly | Holds heat longer, so the tent stays warm longer |
| Wear | FireHiking says its thin titanium may deform after burning and calls that normal. It also says the metal changes color | Varies by maker; ask for the sheet thickness |
What FireHiking's pages leave out
- Heat output, burn time and the tent size a stove can warm. If you need a number, ask before you buy.
- The stove's outlet diameter, as noted above.
- Whether the tent floor is sewn in.
- Any independent test. The reviews on the pages are on the maker's own site, and we cannot check who wrote them.
Do you need a hot tent at all?
For one or two cold nights, probably not. A sleeping bag with a low enough rating, an insulated pad and an ordinary tent from our tent buying guide costs less and carries no carbon monoxide or fire risk from a stove. See also the sleeping bags page.
A hot tent starts to make sense for a fixed camp where two to four of you will spend several cold days drying gear, cooking and warming up, and where someone is awake to tend the fire. If that is you, buy the carbon monoxide alarm first, practice the setup at home, and treat the stove as a piece of equipment that can hurt you. For the hunting side of the trip, the deer hunting page has our field guides.