diff --git a/app/javascript/components/MapEditor/components/DrawLayer.tsx b/app/javascript/components/MapEditor/components/DrawLayer.tsx
index ca0f24e53..6dd336639 100644
--- a/app/javascript/components/MapEditor/components/DrawLayer.tsx
+++ b/app/javascript/components/MapEditor/components/DrawLayer.tsx
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import type { FeatureCollection } from 'geojson';
 import { useMapLibre } from '../../shared/maplibre/MapLibre';
 import {
   useFitBounds,
+  useFitBoundsNoFly,
   useEvent,
   useMapEvent,
   useFlyTo
@@ -117,6 +118,7 @@ function useExternalEvents(
   }
 ) {
   const fitBounds = useFitBounds();
+  const fitBoundsNoFly = useFitBoundsNoFly();
   const flyTo = useFlyTo();
 
   const onFeatureFocus = useCallback(
@@ -184,10 +186,10 @@ function useExternalEvents(
   );
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    fitBounds(featureCollection.bbox as LngLatBoundsLike);
+    fitBoundsNoFly(featureCollection.bbox as LngLatBoundsLike);
     // We only want to zoom on bbox on component mount.
     // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
-  }, [fitBounds]);
+  }, [fitBoundsNoFly]);
 
   useEvent('map:feature:focus', onFeatureFocus);
   useEvent('map:feature:create', onFeatureCreate);
diff --git a/app/javascript/components/shared/maplibre/hooks.ts b/app/javascript/components/shared/maplibre/hooks.ts
index 078e5fb15..9b5acb875 100644
--- a/app/javascript/components/shared/maplibre/hooks.ts
+++ b/app/javascript/components/shared/maplibre/hooks.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,16 @@ export function useFitBounds() {
   );
 }
 
+export function useFitBoundsNoFly() {
+  const map = useMapLibre();
+  return useCallback(
+    (bbox: LngLatBoundsLike) => {
+      map.fitBounds(bbox, { padding: 100, linear: true, duration: 0 });
+    },
+    [map]
+  );
+}
+
 export function useFlyTo() {
   const map = useMapLibre();
   return useCallback(