2017 Ford Escape Smoking … anyone seen this before?

My fiancé and I just noticed that our center console USB port is overheating and melting our charging cable. We drove it home and got rid of the cord. Just 10 minutes later, when she got into the car to go grocery shopping, the USB port started smoking again.

Why is this happening? Should we be concerned? Is it a fuse problem? I couldn’t find much online about this issue.

I would check if something fell into that port and is causing a short, but whatever you do, order a replacement and disconnect it right away.

You should definitely find the fuse for that and pull it out.

I don’t think there is a fuse, it’s powered directly from the APIM. I’ve seen dash harnesses melt because of shorted media hubs.

Could be a bad USB port maybe?