diff --git a/packages/react/src/index.ts b/packages/react/src/index.ts
index 868ee7b1..1ddd6255 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/react/src/index.ts
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ export { IslandErrorBoundary } from "./error-boundary.tsx";
 export type { IslandErrorBoundaryProps } from "./error-boundary.tsx";
 export { islandRootCount, mountIslands, unmountIslands } from "./island-runtime.ts";
 export type { MountOptions } from "./island-runtime.ts";
+export { remountIslands } from "./island-runtime.ts";
diff --git a/packages/react/src/island-runtime.ts b/packages/react/src/island-runtime.ts
index f9bb96c0..99964990 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/island-runtime.ts
+++ b/packages/react/src/island-runtime.ts
@@ -100,3 +100,16 @@ export function unmountIslands(root: ParentNode): void {
     roots.delete(element);
   }
 }
+
+/**
+ * Dev-only: dispose and re-create island roots after a source change.
+ *
+ * Island state resets by design — Fast Refresh needs a Babel/SWC transform plus
+ * a runtime and is out of scope. `unmountIslands` clears each element from the
+ * root registry, so the following `mountIslands` is not short-circuited by the
+ * already-mounted guard.
+ */
+export async function remountIslands(root: ParentNode, options: MountOptions): Promise<void> {
+  unmountIslands(root);
+  await mountIslands(root, options);
+}
diff --git a/packages/react/test/island-hmr.test.ts b/packages/react/test/island-hmr.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..37c02bf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react/test/island-hmr.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+import { afterEach, expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { Window } from "happy-dom";
+import { act, createElement } from "react";
+import { islandRootCount, mountIslands, remountIslands, unmountIslands } from "../src/island-runtime.ts";
+
+(globalThis as any).IS_REACT_ACT_ENVIRONMENT = true;
+
+function host(window: Window): ParentNode {
+  return window.document.body as unknown as ParentNode;
+}
+
+function domWith(html: string) {
+  const window = new Window();
+  window.document.body.innerHTML = html;
+  (globalThis as any).window = window;
+  (globalThis as any).document = window.document;
+  return window;
+}
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  const doc = (globalThis as any).document;
+  if (!doc) return;
+  act(() => {
+    unmountIslands(doc);
+  });
+});
+
+const marker =
+  `<div data-wrn-island="Chart" data-wrn-island-strategy="only"` +
+  ` data-wrn-island-props='{}'></div>`;
+
+test("remount replaces island output without leaking roots", async () => {
+  const window = domWith(marker);
+
+  const first = async () => ({ default: () => createElement("span", null, "v1") });
+  const second = async () => ({ default: () => createElement("span", null, "v2") });
+
+  await act(async () => {
+    await mountIslands(host(window), { loader: first });
+  });
+  expect(window.document.body.textContent).toContain("v1");
+  expect(islandRootCount()).toBe(1);
+
+  await act(async () => {
+    await remountIslands(host(window), { loader: second });
+  });
+  expect(window.document.body.textContent).toContain("v2");
+  expect(window.document.body.textContent).not.toContain("v1");
+  expect(islandRootCount()).toBe(1);
+});
+
+test("repeated remounts stay at one root", async () => {
+  const window = domWith(marker);
+  const loader = async () => ({ default: () => createElement("span", null, "x") });
+
+  await act(async () => {
+    await mountIslands(host(window), { loader });
+  });
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < 4; i += 1) {
+    await act(async () => {
+      await remountIslands(host(window), { loader });
+    });
+  }
+
+  expect(islandRootCount()).toBe(1);
+});