diff --git a/.changeset/few-suits-flash.md b/.changeset/few-suits-flash.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f7e48a2392e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/few-suits-flash.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@sveltejs/adapter-node': patch
+---
+
+Check if '[out]/prerendered' exists, before precompressing
diff --git a/packages/adapter-node/index.js b/packages/adapter-node/index.js
index 57a4a4c5b429..2d527c4d6b80 100644
--- a/packages/adapter-node/index.js
+++ b/packages/adapter-node/index.js
@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
-import { readFileSync, statSync, createReadStream, createWriteStream, writeFileSync } from 'fs';
+import esbuild from 'esbuild';
+import {
+	createReadStream,
+	createWriteStream,
+	existsSync,
+	readFileSync,
+	statSync,
+	writeFileSync
+} from 'fs';
 import { join } from 'path';
-import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
 import { pipeline } from 'stream';
+import glob from 'tiny-glob';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
 import { promisify } from 'util';
 import zlib from 'zlib';
-import esbuild from 'esbuild';
-import glob from 'tiny-glob';
 
 const pipe = promisify(pipeline);
 
@@ -65,7 +72,7 @@ export default function ({
 			await utils.prerender({
 				dest: `${out}/prerendered`
 			});
-			if (precompress) {
+			if (precompress && existsSync(`${out}/prerendered`)) {
 				utils.log.minor('Compressing prerendered pages');
 				await compress(`${out}/prerendered`);
 			}