diff --git a/src/main/scala/org/globalforestwatch/summarystats/gfwpro_dashboard/GfwProDashboardAnalysis.scala b/src/main/scala/org/globalforestwatch/summarystats/gfwpro_dashboard/GfwProDashboardAnalysis.scala
index 6143d8ff..dc3bf487 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/org/globalforestwatch/summarystats/gfwpro_dashboard/GfwProDashboardAnalysis.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/org/globalforestwatch/summarystats/gfwpro_dashboard/GfwProDashboardAnalysis.scala
@@ -149,6 +149,12 @@ object GfwProDashboardAnalysis extends SummaryAnalysis {
     spark: SparkSession
   ): RDD[Location[GfwProDashboardDataDateCount]] = {
     val featureSpatialRDD = RDDAdapter.toSpatialRDDfromLocationRdd(featureRDD, spark)
+    // If there are no locations that intersect the TCL extent (featureSpatialRDD is
+    // empty, has no envelope), then spatial join below will fail, so return without
+    // further analysis.
+    if (featureSpatialRDD.boundaryEnvelope == null) {
+      return spark.sparkContext.parallelize(Seq.empty[Location[GfwProDashboardDataDateCount]])
+    }
     val joinedRDD = SpatialJoinRDD.spatialjoin(featureSpatialRDD, fireAlertRDD)
 
     joinedRDD.rdd
diff --git a/src/test/scala/org/globalforestwatch/summarystats/gfwpro_dashboard/GfwProDashboardAnalysisSpec.scala b/src/test/scala/org/globalforestwatch/summarystats/gfwpro_dashboard/GfwProDashboardAnalysisSpec.scala
index ca091aab..1baabacf 100644
--- a/src/test/scala/org/globalforestwatch/summarystats/gfwpro_dashboard/GfwProDashboardAnalysisSpec.scala
+++ b/src/test/scala/org/globalforestwatch/summarystats/gfwpro_dashboard/GfwProDashboardAnalysisSpec.scala
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ class GfwProDashboardAnalysisSpec extends TestEnvironment with DataFrameComparer
   def dashExpectedOutputPath = getClass.getResource("/dash-output").toString()
   // This is a partial version of gadm36_adm2_1_1.tsv that only includes IDN.1.5
   def idn1_5GadmTsvPath = getClass.getResource("/idn1_5Gadm.tsv").toString()
+  def antarcticaInputTsvPath = getClass.getResource("/antarctica.tsv").toString()
 
   def Dashboard(features: RDD[ValidatedLocation[Geometry]]) = {
     val fireAlertsRdd = {
@@ -74,4 +75,20 @@ class GfwProDashboardAnalysisSpec extends TestEnvironment with DataFrameComparer
 
     assertSmallDataFrameEquality(summaryDF, expectedDF)
   }
+
+  it("completes without error for list that doesn't intersect TCL at all") {
+    // The antarctica location will be completely removed by splitFeatures, since it
+    // doesn't intersect with the TCL extent (which is used as the splitting grid).
+    val antRDD = ValidatedFeatureRDD(
+      NonEmptyList.one(antarcticaInputTsvPath),
+      "gfwpro",
+      FeatureFilter.empty,
+      splitFeatures = true
+    )
+    val fcd = Dashboard(antRDD)
+    val summaryDF = GfwProDashboardDF.getFeatureDataFrameFromVerifiedRdd(fcd.unify, spark)
+
+    summaryDF.count() shouldBe 0
+  }
+
 }