diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/ReactRootView.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/ReactRootView.java
index f152a30c432..2aee3b7b493 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/ReactRootView.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/ReactRootView.java
@@ -431,6 +431,23 @@ public class ReactRootView extends FrameLayout implements RootView, ReactRoot {
   @ThreadConfined(UI)
   public void unmountReactApplication() {
     UiThreadUtil.assertOnUiThread();
+    // Stop surface in Fabric.
+    // Calling FabricUIManager.stopSurface causes the C++ Binding.stopSurface
+    // to be called synchronously over the JNI, which causes an empty tree
+    // to be committed via the Scheduler, which will cause mounting instructions
+    // to be queued up and synchronously executed to delete and remove
+    // all the views in the hierarchy.
+    if (mReactInstanceManager != null) {
+      final ReactContext reactApplicationContext = mReactInstanceManager.getCurrentReactContext();
+      if (reactApplicationContext != null && getUIManagerType() == FABRIC) {
+        @Nullable
+        UIManager uiManager =
+            UIManagerHelper.getUIManager(reactApplicationContext, getUIManagerType());
+        if (uiManager != null) {
+          uiManager.stopSurface(this.getId());
+        }
+      }
+    }
 
     if (mReactInstanceManager != null && mIsAttachedToInstance) {
       mReactInstanceManager.detachRootView(this);
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/bridge/UIManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/bridge/UIManager.java
index 4edebdcf00e..d6f6cd97365 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/bridge/UIManager.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/bridge/UIManager.java
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ public interface UIManager extends JSIModule, PerformanceCounter {
       int widthMeasureSpec,
       int heightMeasureSpec);
 
+  /**
+   * Stop a surface from running in JS and clears up native memory usage. Assumes that the native
+   * View hierarchy has already been cleaned up. Fabric-only.
+   */
+  @AnyThread
+  void stopSurface(final int surfaceId);
+
   /**
    * Updates the layout specs of the RootShadowNode based on the Measure specs received by
    * parameters.
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/fabric/FabricUIManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/fabric/FabricUIManager.java
index 4c863b70209..5ae1f6b9b2e 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/fabric/FabricUIManager.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/fabric/FabricUIManager.java
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ public class FabricUIManager implements UIManager, LifecycleEventListener {
 
   @AnyThread
   @ThreadConfined(ANY)
+  @Override
   public void stopSurface(int surfaceID) {
     mBinding.stopSurface(surfaceID);
     mReactContextForRootTag.remove(surfaceID);
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/UIManagerModule.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/UIManagerModule.java
index 1f51e272ac9..823b1ad1395 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/UIManagerModule.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/UIManagerModule.java
@@ -437,6 +437,11 @@ public class UIManagerModule extends ReactContextBaseJavaModule
     throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public void stopSurface(final int surfaceId) {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+  }
+
   /** Unregisters a new root view. */
   @ReactMethod
   public void removeRootView(int rootViewTag) {