The Best Placement You should place your pellet stove as close to the space you want to heat as possible, but never in bedrooms. Insulated basements make good locations because you take advantage of the natural way heat rises to upper floors.

Do pellet stoves cause house fires?

Self-standing heating devices such as space heaters and pellet stoves, were attributed to be the causes of one third of reported U.S. home heating fires in 2007-2011. As with any method of home heating, there is risk involved with pellet stove use and that is borne out by the weekly news stories about house fires.