diff --git a/adapter.go b/adapter.go
index 4c2e093..03ab517 100644
--- a/adapter.go
+++ b/adapter.go
@@ -651,6 +651,14 @@ func (a *Adapter) Size(key string) (int64, error) {
 		_, err = a.ReadAt(key, []byte{0}, 0) //ignore errors as we just want to populate the size cache
 		si, ok = a.sizeCache.Get(key)
 	}
+	if err == nil && !ok {
+		//first block may be in the block cache, but the size was evicted from the size cache, so we force
+		//a direct read to the source to repopulate the size cache. This should happen extremely
+		//unfrequently.
+		_, err = a.srcReadAt(key, []byte{0}, 0)
+		si, ok = a.sizeCache.Get(key)
+	}
+
 	if ok {
 		size := si.(int64)
 		if size == -1 {
diff --git a/adapter_test.go b/adapter_test.go
index 44e0dbc..da0d99b 100644
--- a/adapter_test.go
+++ b/adapter_test.go
@@ -466,3 +466,12 @@ func TestLogging(t *testing.T) {
 	_, _ = r.Read(buf)
 	assert.Contains(t, lbuf.String(), "GET thekey off=0 len=131072")
 }
+
+func TestSizeCacheEviction(t *testing.T) {
+	bc, _ := NewAdapter(rr, SizeCache(1))
+	_, err := bc.Size("thekey")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	_, _ = bc.Size("enoent")
+	_, err = bc.Size("thekey")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+}