diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c8d9d781..d3f5d119 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -109,11 +109,16 @@
   -E,--client-environment` ([#1568][1568]).
 * XDG toplevel protocol violation, by trying to set a title that
   contains an invalid UTF-8 sequence ([#1552][1552]).
+* Crash when erasing the scrollback, when scrollback history is
+  exactly 0 rows. This happens when `[scrollback].line = 0`, and the
+  window size (number of rows) is a power of two (i.e. 2, 4, 8, 16
+  etc) ([#1610][1610]).
 
 [1531]: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1531
 [1573]: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1573
 [1568]: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1568
 [1552]: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1552
+[1610]: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1610
 
 
 ### Security
diff --git a/terminal.c b/terminal.c
index bc7dc428..d9d66bac 100644
--- a/terminal.c
+++ b/terminal.c
@@ -2350,6 +2350,10 @@ term_erase_scrollback(struct terminal *term)
     const int num_rows = grid->num_rows;
     const int mask = num_rows - 1;
 
+    const int scrollback_history_size = num_rows - term->rows;
+    if (scrollback_history_size == 0)
+        return;
+
     const int start = (grid->offset + term->rows) & mask;
     const int end = (grid->offset - 1) & mask;
 
@@ -2416,6 +2420,13 @@ term_erase_scrollback(struct terminal *term)
     }
 
     term->grid->view = term->grid->offset;
+
+#if defined(_DEBUG)
+    for (int i = 0; i < term->rows; i++) {
+        xassert(grid_row_in_view(term->grid, i) != NULL);
+    }
+#endif
+
     term_damage_view(term);
 }