diff --git a/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactFizzConfigDOM.js b/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactFizzConfigDOM.js
index e00da0b8f1b05..0788f216e5f30 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactFizzConfigDOM.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactFizzConfigDOM.js
@@ -6131,6 +6131,10 @@ export function emitEarlyPreloads(
   if (onHeaders) {
     const headers = renderState.headers;
     if (headers) {
+      // Even if onHeaders throws we don't want to call this again so
+      // we drop the headers state from this point onwards.
+      renderState.headers = null;
+
       let linkHeader = headers.preconnects;
       if (headers.fontPreloads) {
         if (linkHeader) {
@@ -6205,7 +6209,6 @@ export function emitEarlyPreloads(
         // it React will not provide any headers
         onHeaders({});
       }
-      renderState.headers = null;
       return;
     }
   }
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js
index 6ed04b64a50e1..874183bb4d541 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js
@@ -3841,6 +3841,30 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServer', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it('logs an error if onHeaders throws but continues the render', async () => {
+    const errors = [];
+    function onError(error) {
+      errors.push(error.message);
+    }
+
+    function onHeaders(x) {
+      throw new Error('bad onHeaders');
+    }
+
+    let pipe;
+    await act(() => {
+      ({pipe} = renderToPipeableStream(<div>hello</div>, {onHeaders, onError}));
+    });
+
+    expect(errors).toEqual(['bad onHeaders']);
+
+    await act(() => {
+      pipe(writable);
+    });
+
+    expect(getVisibleChildren(container)).toEqual(<div>hello</div>);
+  });
+
   describe('error escaping', () => {
     it('escapes error hash, message, and component stack values in directly flushed errors (html escaping)', async () => {
       window.__outlet = {};
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser-test.js
index 70d8de5c19ff2..7482c7adaac8c 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser-test.js
@@ -1420,6 +1420,28 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser', () => {
     );
   });
 
+  // @gate experimental
+  it('logs an error if onHeaders throws but continues the prerender', async () => {
+    const errors = [];
+    function onError(error) {
+      errors.push(error.message);
+    }
+
+    function onHeaders(x) {
+      throw new Error('bad onHeaders');
+    }
+
+    const prerendered = await ReactDOMFizzStatic.prerender(<div>hello</div>, {
+      onHeaders,
+      onError,
+    });
+    expect(prerendered.postponed).toBe(null);
+    expect(errors).toEqual(['bad onHeaders']);
+
+    await readIntoContainer(prerendered.prelude);
+    expect(getVisibleChildren(container)).toEqual(<div>hello</div>);
+  });
+
   // @gate enablePostpone
   it('does not bootstrap again in a resume if it bootstraps', async () => {
     let prerendering = true;
diff --git a/packages/react-server/src/ReactFizzServer.js b/packages/react-server/src/ReactFizzServer.js
index 675b8816a7a0b..8909fccc691a6 100644
--- a/packages/react-server/src/ReactFizzServer.js
+++ b/packages/react-server/src/ReactFizzServer.js
@@ -3220,6 +3220,22 @@ function abortTask(task: Task, request: Request, error: mixed): void {
   }
 }
 
+function safelyEmitEarlyPreloads(
+  request: Request,
+  shellComplete: boolean,
+): void {
+  try {
+    emitEarlyPreloads(
+      request.renderState,
+      request.resumableState,
+      shellComplete,
+    );
+  } catch (error) {
+    // We assume preloads are optimistic and thus non-fatal if errored.
+    logRecoverableError(request, error);
+  }
+}
+
 // I extracted this function out because we want to ensure we consistently emit preloads before
 // transitioning to the next request stage and this transition can happen in multiple places in this
 // implementation.
@@ -3232,11 +3248,7 @@ function completeShell(request: Request) {
     // we should only be calling completeShell when the shell is complete so we
     // just use a literal here
     const shellComplete = true;
-    emitEarlyPreloads(
-      request.renderState,
-      request.resumableState,
-      shellComplete,
-    );
+    safelyEmitEarlyPreloads(request, shellComplete);
   }
   // We have completed the shell so the shell can't error anymore.
   request.onShellError = noop;
@@ -3259,7 +3271,7 @@ function completeAll(request: Request) {
       : // Prerender Request, we use the state of the root segment
         request.completedRootSegment === null ||
         request.completedRootSegment.status !== POSTPONED;
-  emitEarlyPreloads(request.renderState, request.resumableState, shellComplete);
+  safelyEmitEarlyPreloads(request, shellComplete);
   const onAllReady = request.onAllReady;
   onAllReady();
 }
@@ -4124,7 +4136,7 @@ export function startWork(request: Request): void {
 
 function enqueueEarlyPreloadsAfterInitialWork(request: Request) {
   const shellComplete = request.pendingRootTasks === 0;
-  emitEarlyPreloads(request.renderState, request.resumableState, shellComplete);
+  safelyEmitEarlyPreloads(request, shellComplete);
 }
 
 function enqueueFlush(request: Request): void {
@@ -4168,7 +4180,7 @@ export function prepareForStartFlowingIfBeforeAllReady(request: Request) {
       request.completedRootSegment === null
       ? request.pendingRootTasks === 0
       : request.completedRootSegment.status !== POSTPONED;
-  emitEarlyPreloads(request.renderState, request.resumableState, shellComplete);
+  safelyEmitEarlyPreloads(request, shellComplete);
 }
 
 export function startFlowing(request: Request, destination: Destination): void {