diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/BasicWriteStatsTracker.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/BasicWriteStatsTracker.scala
index b8f7d130d569f..2d9a8f465f8ee 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/BasicWriteStatsTracker.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/BasicWriteStatsTracker.scala
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 
 package org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources
 
+import java.io.IOException
+
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path
 
@@ -57,7 +59,14 @@ class BasicWriteTaskStatsTracker(hadoopConf: Configuration)
   private def getFileSize(filePath: String): Long = {
     val path = new Path(filePath)
     val fs = path.getFileSystem(hadoopConf)
-    fs.getFileStatus(path).getLen()
+    // getFileStatus may throw IOException like FileNotFoundException. A file format like ORC
+    // may not create a file at all in case of writing empty dataset. Writing task should not fail
+    // due to this StatsTracker.
+    try {
+      fs.getFileStatus(path).getLen()
+    } catch {
+      case _: IOException => 0
+    }
   }
 
 
diff --git a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/SQLQuerySuite.scala b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/SQLQuerySuite.scala
index 09c59000b3e3f..60b76f17921ce 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/SQLQuerySuite.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/SQLQuerySuite.scala
@@ -2050,4 +2050,12 @@ class SQLQuerySuite extends QueryTest with SQLTestUtils with TestHiveSingleton {
       }
     }
   }
+
+  Seq("orc", "parquet", "csv", "json", "text").foreach { format =>
+    test(s"Writing empty datasets should not fail - $format") {
+      withTempDir { dir =>
+        Seq("str").toDS.limit(0).write.format(format).save(dir.getCanonicalPath + "/tmp")
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }