01 What EVO is
EVO is not one roster but four, and the factory publishes them under separate headings: EVO, EVO Lites, EVO Selects and EVO Singles. That matters for anyone shopping by weight, because the sub-family a plan belongs to predicts its weight class more reliably than its floorplan number does - the Singles run single-axle and light, the base EVO group runs tandem-axle and heavier, and a buyer comparing two EVO plans by number alone can be a full tow class out.
Across the whole EVO roster the published dry weights run from 2,504 lbs to 7,433 lbs, cargo capacities from 706 lbs to 3,082 lbs, and dry tongue weights from 365 lbs to 895 lbs. Exterior lengths run 16 to 34 feet. Those are Forest River's figures for a standard build, captured from the factory roster block and confirmed against each floorplan's own factory page.
Forest River publishes a GVWR for 19 of the 23 floorplans, and on 18 of those the arithmetic ties out exactly: dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published rating to the pound. That check is run on every plan before it is profiled here, and a plan that fails it is catalogued with the disagreement printed rather than quietly corrected.
02 Floorplans profiled in depth
18 of the 23 EVO floorplans are profiled in full below, each on its own page with the complete factory weight, dimension and tank block. The profiled set is spread across the weight range rather than taken from one end of it, so the lightest and heaviest plans in the line are both represented. Every plan profiled here publishes a full field set and, where Forest River publishes a GVWR, passes the dry-plus-cargo arithmetic check.
| Floorplan | Dry wt | Length | Cargo | Tongue wt | GVWR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 135ICE | 2,504 | 16' 0" | 1,361 | 365 | 3,865 |
| 164FBLE | 2,988 | 20' 2" | 877 | 365 | 3,865 |
| 174DBLE | 3,229 | 21' 8" | 706 | 435 | 3,935 |
| 179DB | 3,515 | 22' 5" | 1,377 | 492 | 4,892 |
| 178BHS | 4,182 | 22' 11" | 1,488 | 570 | 5,670 |
| 163RD | 4,197 | 23' 2" | 1,323 | 420 | 5,520 |
| 165VW | 4,437 | 23' 2" | 1,213 | 550 | 5,650 |
| 233RBLE | 4,714 | 28' 3" | 2,806 | 520 | 7,520 |
| 2700BHX | 5,854 | 31' 9" | 1,828 | 682 | 7,682 |
| 2405BHX | 5,888 | 28' 11" | 1,852 | 740 | 7,740 |
| 2290ER | 5,942 | 28' 5" | 2,508 | 650 | 8,450 |
| 2750QBX | 5,975 | 33' 3" | 1,705 | 680 | 7,680 |
| 2480VBX | 6,159 | 29' 11" | 2,416 | 775 | 8,575 |
| 25ICE | 6,178 | 29' 10" | 1,522 | 700 | 7,700 |
| 26ICE | 6,288 | 32' 9" | 1,497 | 785 | 7,785 |
| 2985VBX | 6,375 | 33' 10" | 2,196 | 771 | 8,571 |
| 260ICE | 6,613 | 29' 11" | 3,082 | 895 | 9,695 |
| 2920VB | 7,433 | 34' 11" | 2,182 | 815 | 9,615 |
Every figure in this table is a Forest River factory publication for 2026, captured twice - from the line roster block and from each floorplan's own factory page - and cross-checked field by field. Forest River publishes no sleeping capacity, axle count, tire size or MSRP for this line, so there are no columns for them.
03 Also in the 2026 line
The remaining 5 EVO floorplans are catalogued here from the factory's published figures. A plan is catalogued rather than profiled when the factory has not yet published its full field set, when its own published figures disagree with each other, or simply because the profiled set is capped. Nothing in this table is estimated.
| Floorplan | Dry wt | GVWR | Cargo | Tongue wt | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 250ZEN | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Announced, weights not yet published |
| 270ZEN | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Announced, weights not yet published |
| 300ICE | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Announced, weights not yet published |
| 31KQBTS | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Announced, weights not yet published |
| 266BHLE | 4,853 | 7,550 | 2,698 | 550 | Published figures disagree |
Catalogued plans carry the factory figures Forest River publishes and nothing else. A row reading “Not published” means the factory does not publish that field for that plan - it is never a placeholder for a figure this site could not be bothered to find.
04 How to choose
Sort this line by the constraint you actually have. If the tow vehicle is fixed, start at the weight column: the lightest plan in the roster is the 135ICE at 2,504 lbs dry and the heaviest is the 2920VB at 7,433 lbs, and that spread is wide enough that the two ends are not the same buying decision. If the tow vehicle is not fixed, sort by cargo capacity instead - the 260ICE carries the most at 3,082 lbs, and payload is the number that runs out first on a long trip.
Do not sort by floorplan number. Forest River's codes encode length loosely and layout not at all, and this site does not decode them into layout claims. Two plans with adjacent numbers in this roster can differ by hundreds of pounds of dry weight and by more than that in dry tongue weight, which is the figure that determines what the tow vehicle has to be.
Where Forest River publishes a floorplan description it is quoted on the plan page and identified as factory marketing copy rather than a specification. Where it publishes none, the plan page says so instead of describing a layout that nobody has verified. That is the difference between a catalogue and a brochure.
05 What to weigh before buying
What this line is
EVO is published by Forest River as four sub-families - EVO, EVO Lites, EVO Selects and EVO Singles - across twenty-three floorplans for 2027. The sub-family each plan belongs to is shown in the table below because it is the strongest single predictor of weight class in this line. Forest River publishes dry weight, cargo capacity, dry tongue weight and the exterior dimensions for all twenty-three, and a GVWR for nineteen. Sleeping capacity, axle count, tire size and MSRP are not published in this channel.
The four fields Forest River does not publish
Sleeping capacity, axle count, tire size and MSRP are absent from Forest River's specification channel for EVO. They are absent from this site too. None of the four is estimated from the segment, inferred from a sibling floorplan or lifted from a dealer listing quoting its own guess back. Tire size matters most of the four: two codes a digit apart are different tires with different load ratings, and a misread is a safety claim.
Match the tow vehicle honestly
The plans here run from 2,504 lbs to 7,433 lbs dry with dry tongue weights of 365 lbs to 895 lbs. Dry weight is not towing weight - water, batteries, propane, gear and dealer-installed accessories all sit on top of it, and tongue weight rises with them. Forest River's own footnote calls unloaded weight an estimated average for a standard build. Read your own door sticker rather than a brochure maximum, and weigh the trailer loaded the way you actually travel.
06 What every EVO has
08 Recalls
NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns affecting this line. The earliest was reported 17 May 2013 and the most recent 23 Oct 2019. 3 of them are matched on NHTSA’s own model field; the other 1 names this line in the recall text and is marked named in text below, which is a weaker match and shown as one.
| Reported | Campaign | Component | What can go wrong |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Oct 2019 | 19V754000 named in text | Equipment | The rubber hose may melt, allowing gas to enter the vehicle, increasing the risk of a fire. |
| 10 Dec 2015 | 15V831000 | Equipment | If occupants are not warned elevated carbon monoxide levels, they are at an increased risk of injury. |
| 9 Jun 2015 | 15V359000 | Suspension | If the wheel studs break, the wheel could detach from the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash. |
| 17 May 2013 | 13V203000 | Equipment | If the motor assembly screws shear, it is possible that the awning can unfurl unexpectedly, either while the vehicle is at rest or while in transit, increasing the… |
Coverage is not complete, and this matters. These campaigns come from two passes over NHTSA’s public record: a query-by-query harvest of the recall API (1,556 queries, of which 0 failed and 242 returned an explicit zero), and a sweep of NHTSA’s complete recall flat file (325,650 rows), which added 46 campaigns the API harvest had missed. It missed them because the roster it worked from was built by a catalog endpoint that refuses most requests, so entire manufacturer names were never asked about — NHTSA files several Forest River sub-brands as makes of their own. Two limits remain: NHTSA sometimes files a roster under a parent name, and some matches below rest on the wording of the recall rather than its model field. Campaigns affecting only pre-2005 units fall outside this catalog’s range and are not listed. This page is a starting point, not a clearance. Check a specific VIN at NHTSA before you buy, and again before you tow.
09 Owner-reported problems
Owners have filed 3 complaints with NHTSA about this line. The earliest was filed 7 Oct 2015 and the most recent 19 Sep 2019. The breakdown below is what those owners actually reported, grouped by the component NHTSA assigned.
Safety outcomes in this set: 1 report describing a fire. These are the owner’s own account of what happened and have not been verified by NHTSA.
What gets reported
| Component group | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 2 | 67% |
| Structure | 1 | 33% |
Most recent reports
The 3 owner reports filed on this line, newest first. Wording is NHTSA’s summary of what the owner described.
| Filed | Component | Miles | What the owner reported |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Sep 2019 | Suspension › Rear | — | TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2020 FOREST RIVER EVO T2360 TRAVEL TRAILER (NA) ATTACHED TO A 1996 FORD F-150. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 55 MPH, THE TRAVEL TRAILER CAUGHT ON FIRE NEAR THE DRIVER'S SIDE WHEEL. THE CONTACT PULLED OVER AND EXTINGUISHED THE FIRE WITH BOTTLES OF WATER. THE TRAVEL TRAILER WAS… |
| 21 Aug 2019 | Structure › Body | — | Tl* the contact owns A 2016 forest river evo 19RB. The contact stated that her granddaughter was outside of the motor carrier and burned her hand (3 fingers blistered) when she touched the hot water heater grate. The water heater grate was located next to the trailer door and there was no… |
| 7 Oct 2015 | Suspension | 25,000 | Both leaf springs have failed and now A weld on A spring support has failed. |
How this count is drawn. A report is counted here only when NHTSA’s own model field names this line. What the owner typed in the description is never used to attribute a report: our line names are ordinary English words, and an owner writing “imagine my surprise when the axle went” or naming the state of Montana is not reporting a Grand Design Imagine or a Keystone Montana.
Read these as reports, not as findings. Complaints are submitted by owners and NHTSA does not verify them; no complaint here has been confirmed as a defect, and none of them is a recall. The sample is also self-selected — only owners motivated to file appear in it — so a high count tracks how many units a line sold at least as much as how well it was built. Use the pattern, not the total: a component that keeps recurring is worth inspecting on any used unit. File or search complaints at NHTSA.