diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsext.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsext.rs
index 4be4d66cf8f..aa916c31a07 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsext.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsext.rs
@@ -683,7 +683,9 @@ impl FsUsage {
             //  Total number of free blocks.
             bfree: number_of_free_clusters as u64,
             //  Total number of free blocks available to non-privileged processes.
-            bavail: 0,
+            // Windows: 'bavail' should reflect free clusters available to non-privileged processes.
+            // See: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/7461
+            bavail: number_of_free_clusters as u64,
             bavail_top_bit_set: ((bytes_per_sector as u64) & (1u64.rotate_right(1))) != 0,
             // Total number of file nodes (inodes) on the file system.
             files: 0, // Not available on windows
diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_df.rs b/tests/by-util/test_df.rs
index 9b57d6020e5..5ac56b6f17a 100644
--- a/tests/by-util/test_df.rs
+++ b/tests/by-util/test_df.rs
@@ -973,3 +973,26 @@ fn test_nonexistent_file() {
         .stderr_is("df: does-not-exist: No such file or directory\n")
         .stdout_is("File\n.\n");
 }
+
+#[test]
+#[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+fn test_windows_avail_column_not_zero() {
+    // Regression test for issue #7461: Avail column should not be 0 on Windows
+    let output = new_ucmd!()
+        .args(&["--output=avail"])
+        .succeeds()
+        .stdout_str_lossy();
+
+    let lines: Vec<&str> = output.lines().skip(1).collect();
+    assert!(!lines.is_empty(), "Should have at least one filesystem");
+
+    // At least one filesystem should have non-zero avail
+    let has_non_zero = lines
+        .iter()
+        .any(|line| line.trim().parse::<u64>().map(|v| v > 0).unwrap_or(false));
+
+    assert!(
+        has_non_zero,
+        "At least one filesystem should have non-zero available space"
+    );
+}