diff --git a/pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py b/pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py
index 874646b711..afa9bdb841 100644
--- a/pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py
+++ b/pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py
@@ -248,11 +248,56 @@ def __init__(self, field: pa.Field, *args: Any):
         super().__init__(*args)
 
 
+def _fsync_dir(path: str) -> None:
+    """Make the entries of a local directory durable."""
+    if os.name == "nt":
+        # A directory cannot be opened on Windows, and NTFS journals its directory entries
+        return
+    fd = os.open(path, os.O_RDONLY)
+    try:
+        os.fsync(fd)
+    finally:
+        os.close(fd)
+
+
+class _SyncOnCloseOutputStream(pyarrow.BufferedOutputStream):
+    """A buffered local output stream that is flushed to disk when it is closed.
+
+    A catalog may point at a file as soon as it has been written, so the contents and the directory entry
+    must survive a power loss before the commit, as an acknowledged PUT does on an object store.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, path: str, buffer_size: int):
+        self._raw = pyarrow.OSFile(path, mode="wb")
+        super().__init__(self._raw, buffer_size)
+        self._path = path
+
+    def close(self) -> None:
+        if self.closed:
+            return
+        try:
+            self.flush()
+            os.fsync(self._raw.fileno())
+        finally:
+            super().close()
+        _fsync_dir(os.path.dirname(self._path) or ".")
+
+
 class PyArrowLocalFileSystem(pyarrow.fs.LocalFileSystem):
     def open_output_stream(self, path: str, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> pyarrow.NativeFile:
         # In LocalFileSystem, parent directories must be first created before opening an output stream
+        parent = os.path.dirname(path)
+        missing: list[str] = []
+        while parent and not os.path.isdir(parent):
+            missing.append(parent)
+            parent = os.path.dirname(parent)
         self.create_dir(os.path.dirname(path), recursive=True)
-        return super().open_output_stream(path, *args, **kwargs)
+        for directory in reversed(missing):
+            _fsync_dir(os.path.dirname(directory) or ".")
+        if args or kwargs.keys() - {"buffer_size"}:
+            # Compression or metadata was requested, which only pyarrow's own stream supports; it is not synced
+            return super().open_output_stream(path, *args, **kwargs)
+        return _SyncOnCloseOutputStream(path, kwargs.get("buffer_size") or ONE_MEGABYTE)
 
 
 class PyArrowFile(InputFile, OutputFile):
diff --git a/tests/io/test_pyarrow.py b/tests/io/test_pyarrow.py
index e97b7813da..b3120d2d61 100644
--- a/tests/io/test_pyarrow.py
+++ b/tests/io/test_pyarrow.py
@@ -160,6 +160,27 @@ def test_pyarrow_local_fs_can_create_path_without_parent_dir() -> None:
             pytest.fail("Failed to write to file without parent directory")
 
 
+def test_pyarrow_local_fs_syncs_file_and_new_directories_on_close(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    """Test a closed local file and the directory entries created for it are flushed to disk"""
+    file_path = f"{tmp_path}/foo/bar/baz.txt"
+    synced: list[int] = []
+    real_fsync = os.fsync
+
+    def record_fsync(fd: int) -> None:
+        synced.append(os.fstat(fd).st_ino)
+        real_fsync(fd)
+
+    with patch("os.fsync", side_effect=record_fsync):
+        with PyArrowFileIO().new_output(file_path).create() as f:
+            f.write(b"foo")
+
+    expected = [os.stat(file_path).st_ino]
+    if os.name != "nt":
+        expected += [os.stat(directory).st_ino for directory in (tmp_path, tmp_path / "foo", tmp_path / "foo" / "bar")]
+    assert sorted(synced) == sorted(expected)
+    assert Path(file_path).read_bytes() == b"foo"
+
+
 def test_pyarrow_input_file() -> None:
     """Test reading a file using PyArrowFile"""