Outdoor
Fire Pits & Fire Tables in Utah
The lowest-effort way to make a backyard worth sitting in—from a table you can buy today to a custom pit built to the space.
Start here
The Three Fire Pits & Fire Tables to Look At First
Chosen from what these shops actually stock and install. Every one opens its own page.
Napoleon
Linear Gas Patioflame
A burner to build into stone or a seating wall
Freestanding
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Napoleon
Nexus 72 Patioflame Table
The large table, for a group rather than a couple
Freestanding
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Napoleon
Hamptons Rectangle Patioflame Table Hamp1
A finished table you set down and light
Freestanding
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Three of 9.
Concept
The short answer
A fire pit is a gathering point people sit around in a circle; a fire table is the same fire built into something that also works as furniture. Both are the lowest-effort way to make a backyard worth sitting in—a gas table can be delivered and lit the same week, and a custom pit can be built to the space. It is usually the first fire feature a household buys and the one that changes how often the family is outside.
In plain language
Pit, Table, or Something Built
Four distinctions cover the whole category, and the first two are about furniture rather than fire.
- Fire pit
- A low, open fire meant to be surrounded. People pull chairs up to it, and the heat goes out evenly in every direction. It is the social shape, and it is what most people mean when they say they want fire in the yard.
- Fire table
- The same burner set into a dining- or coffee-height surface, so it does a second job when the fire is off. In a small yard where furniture and fire would compete for the same space, this is the answer.
- Gas or wood-burning
- Gas lights with a switch, makes no smoke, and needs either a line or a tank. A modern smokeless wood pit gives you real flame and real crackle with far less smoke than an old fire ring, and needs nothing plumbed. The choice is convenience against character.
- Bought, or built
- At one end is a table that arrives finished. At the other is a custom pit built into the patio from a local manufacturer's line and sold unbranded, sized and faced to the space. The middle is a burner kit dropped into masonry someone else builds.
Start here
Which Shape Fits Your Yard
Space, seating, and how quickly you want it decide this one.
- You want people sitting in a circle Fire pit—this is the category
- The yard is small and furniture competes for space Fire table
- You want it this month with no build A gas fire table, delivered
- You want it built into the patio and faced to match A custom pit
- You want a wall of directional heat and an anchor Outdoor fireplace
The difference
Gas or Wood-Burning Fire Pit
The decision that shapes everything else about how often it actually gets lit.
| Gas | Wood-burning | |
|---|---|---|
| Lighting it | A switch or a knob | Kindling and a few minutes |
| Smoke | None | Much less on a smokeless design, never zero |
| Needs plumbing | A gas line, or a tank to swap | No |
| Fuel to store | None | A woodpile |
| Cleanup | None | Ash |
| Air-quality restrictions | Unaffected | Applies—it is solid fuel |
| Gets used on a weeknight | Often | Less often, honestly |
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What Changes Because This Is Utah
This is Usually the First Thing People Buy, and the One that Changes Behaviour
It is the least complicated item in the catalogue and often the entry point. It also tends to be the purchase that gets a family outside more evenings a week, which is why these shops treat it as a starting point for the whole outdoor conversation rather than as an add-on.
Gas is Unaffected by Air-Quality Days; a Wood Pit is Not
Solid fuel is solid fuel whether it is indoors or on the patio, so a wood-burning pit falls under the same restrictions on a red day. A gas pit or table lights on any day of the year—which for a Wasatch Front backyard is a real difference in how many evenings it gets used.
Propane is the Answer Where There is No Line
Plenty of Utah patios and nearly every cabin have no natural gas at the spot the fire should go. A tank-fed unit solves it, and for a second home it is often the more sensible answer regardless—nothing to trench and nothing to winterise.
What it costs
Installed, in Utah
This is the widest price range of anything on the site, because the category runs from a finished table you take delivery of to a masonry pit built into a new patio. A gas table needs a line or a tank and nothing else. A custom pit is a construction project, and its cost lives mostly in the stonework rather than in the burner.
Price bands are not in yet, and a single range would be meaningless across a category this wide. The pit itself is often the smallest line on a custom quote.
Questions buyers ask
About Fire Pits & Fire Tables
What is the difference between a fire pit and a fire table?
A fire pit is a low open fire designed to be surrounded—people pull chairs up to it and the heat goes out in every direction. A fire table sets the same burner into a dining- or coffee-height surface so it also works as furniture when the fire is off. In a small yard the table usually wins, because it is not competing with your seating for space.
Are smokeless fire pits actually smokeless?
Much less smoky, not smoke-free. A double-wall design preheats secondary air and burns off a lot of what would otherwise leave as smoke, which is a genuine and obvious improvement over an old fire ring. Burn dry wood and it is dramatic; burn wet wood and no design will save you.
Do I need a gas line for a fire pit?
For a gas pit you need either a natural gas line run to the spot or a propane tank, which many units are designed to hide. If the patio is already built and trenching is unappealing, propane is usually the practical answer—and on a cabin it is often the better one anyway.
Can I use a fire pit on a covered patio or under a pergola?
It depends on the unit and on what is overhead. Some are listed for use under a structure with a stated clearance; many are not, and a wood-burning pit under a solid roof is a bad idea regardless. Bring a photo of the space to the showroom—this is a question worth asking before delivery, not after.
How much heat does a fire pit give off?
Enough to keep a circle of people comfortable on a cool evening, and that is the whole job. Because it radiates in every direction, seating distance matters far more than any output figure—six chairs at the right radius will be warm, and the same fire with the chairs pushed back will not.
Can a fire pit go on a wooden deck?
Sometimes, with the right unit and a heat barrier underneath. The clearance to the deck surface is model-specific and it is not a detail to guess at, because the failure mode is scorching the deck or worse. Say it is going on wood at the first conversation.
Are fire pits allowed on red air days in Utah?
A wood-burning pit is solid fuel and falls under the same restrictions as an indoor wood appliance on an action day. A gas pit or table is unaffected and can be used any day of the year. If you want the fire available all winter in a Wasatch Front backyard, that points at gas.
What is the difference between a fire pit and a fire pit burner kit?
A finished pit arrives complete and ready to use. A burner kit is the pan, the burner, and the controls, meant to be dropped into masonry that someone else builds—which is how a custom pit gets made, and it means the look is entirely up to your stonework rather than to a catalogue.
Do you sell custom fire pits?
Yes. The custom line is bought from a local manufacturer and sold unbranded, built to whatever the space needs rather than to a standard size. It is the answer when the pit has to match the house and a catalogue shape will not do it.
Which fire tables do these shops stock?
Napoleon's Patio Flame and Nexus tables are the current line-up, along with the linear and square burner kits for custom work. Be aware that the table series is being replaced and stock is limited on both the manufacturer and the distributor side—worth asking what is available at your showroom before you set your heart on a model.
How do I clean and maintain a fire pit?
Gas needs the burner ports kept clear and the media checked, and a cover keeps water out of the pan over winter. Wood-burning needs ash out and a dry spell—water sitting in a steel pit is what shortens its life. Neither is much work; both get skipped, which is why pits fail early.
Do I need a permit for a fire pit?
A freestanding gas table on a tank normally does not. New gas piping does, and it has to be run by a licensed gas-fitter. A masonry pit built into a patio may bring the structure into scope as well. The shop doing the work will tell you which of those you are looking at.
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