Abstract: A gas-fired portable campfire includes a base container, a gas burner tube mounted into the base container, and non-flammable low-density particulate insulating filler mountable into the base container so as to cover the gas burner. The gas burner tube has an inlet aperture for mounting to a gas supply and a spaced apart array of outlet apertures arranged so as to be radially spaced generally around a center of the container. The outlet apertures are radially inwardly inclined so as to direct gas jets from the outlet apertures upwardly and inwardly toward the center so as to form a generally conically shaped flame pattern when the gas jets are ignited.