diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4e39debe..3c1e7fd2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 - Fix i2c interactions after errors
 - Fix SPI3 alternate function remapping
 - Do not enable UART DMA flags unconditionally
+- Fix flash erase verification always failing
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/src/flash.rs b/src/flash.rs
index 6c31d33a..6a9e1926 100644
--- a/src/flash.rs
+++ b/src/flash.rs
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ impl<'a> FlashWriter<'a> {
                 // 'start_offset' was.
                 let size = self.sector_sz.kbytes() as u32;
                 let start = start_offset & !(size - 1);
-                for idx in start..start + size {
+                for idx in (start..start + size).step_by(2) {
                     let write_address = (FLASH_START + idx as u32) as *const u16;
                     let verify: u16 = unsafe { core::ptr::read_volatile(write_address) };
                     if verify != 0xFFFF {