Ford Recalls by Year
Pick a model year to see every Ford model with an NHTSA recall campaign on file, then drill into the campaigns themselves.
Model years
Ford recall history at a glance
Since 2010, 820 distinct NHTSA recall campaigns have covered Ford vehicles. The most frequently cited component group is power train (110 campaigns), and the busiest filing year so far was 2025, with 135 campaigns.
Aggregated from the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation recall file, data through 2026-06-30. The year pages below query NHTSA live on every visit.
How this archive is organized
NHTSA files recalls as numbered campaigns — 24V-123 is the 123rd vehicle campaign filed in 2024 — but each campaign lists the model years it affects, often several at once. This archive is organized by model year, because that is how you shop for a used vehicle: pick the year, see every Ford model with a campaign on file, then open the campaign records themselves. Recalls also arrive years after a vehicle is built — a 2019 model can carry a campaign filed in 2023 or later — so newly announced campaigns appear under model years long past, and a year that is clean today is not guaranteed to stay that way.
Checking one specific Ford?
Recall campaigns are filed at the year/model level; whether a particular vehicle still needs the work depends on its VIN and repair history. The fastest check: run the VIN through the Ford recall lookup — it returns every open campaign for that vehicle's year and model, free. The repair itself is free at a franchised Ford dealer: federal law requires a no-charge remedy whenever the vehicle was 15 years old or newer when the defect was determined, and vehicle-recall remedies don't expire.