diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-map/topic-map-summary.gjs b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-map/topic-map-summary.gjs
index 0979302d0d1..189f2a71b4f 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-map/topic-map-summary.gjs
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-map/topic-map-summary.gjs
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ export default class TopicMapSummary extends Component {
     return [this.hasLikes, this.hasUsers, this.hasLinks].every(Boolean);
   }
 
+  get minViewsCount() {
+    return Math.max(this.args.topic.views, 1);
+  }
+
   get shouldShowViewsChart() {
     return this.views.stats.length > 2;
   }
@@ -249,9 +253,9 @@ export default class TopicMapSummary extends Component {
         @onShow={{this.fetchViews}}
       >
         <:trigger>
-          {{number @topic.views noTitle="true"}}
+          {{number this.minViewsCount noTitle="true"}}
           <span class="topic-map__stat-label">
-            {{i18n "views_lowercase" count=@topic.views}}
+            {{i18n "views_lowercase" count=this.minViewsCount}}
           </span>
         </:trigger>
         <:content>
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-map/topic-views.gjs b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-map/topic-views.gjs
index 254a9135964..93e6118d178 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-map/topic-views.gjs
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/topic-map/topic-views.gjs
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ export default class TopicViews extends Component {
       };
     });
 
+    // today should always have at least 1 view
+    // because it's being viewed right now
+    const lastStat = stats[stats.length - 1];
+    lastStat.views = Math.max(lastStat.views, 1);
+
     return stats;
   }