diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js
index 8efff0b96c7..eddca1b0707 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js
@@ -714,6 +714,10 @@ module.exports = function (webpackEnv) {
           swSrc,
           dontCacheBustURLsMatching: /\.[0-9a-f]{8}\./,
           exclude: [/\.map$/, /asset-manifest\.json$/, /LICENSE/],
+          // Bump up the default maximum size (2mb) that's precached,
+          // to make lazy-loading failure scenarios less likely.
+          // See https://github.com/cra-template/pwa/issues/13#issuecomment-722667270
+          maximumFileSizeToCacheInBytes: 5 * 1024 * 1024,
         }),
       // TypeScript type checking
       useTypeScript &&