diff --git a/modules/react-mapbox/src/utils/apply-react-style.ts b/modules/react-mapbox/src/utils/apply-react-style.ts
index 2ff1b9b64..5ca3dd5d0 100644
--- a/modules/react-mapbox/src/utils/apply-react-style.ts
+++ b/modules/react-mapbox/src/utils/apply-react-style.ts
@@ -3,18 +3,59 @@ import * as React from 'react';
 // https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/4131af3e4bf52f3a003537ec95a1655147c81270/src/renderers/dom/shared/CSSPropertyOperations.js#L62
 const unitlessNumber = /box|flex|grid|column|lineHeight|fontWeight|opacity|order|tabSize|zIndex/;
 
-export function applyReactStyle(element: HTMLElement, styles: React.CSSProperties) {
-  if (!element || !styles) {
+// Remembers the style keys applied to each element on the previous call, so that
+// properties which are later removed (set to undefined/null or omitted from the
+// style object) can be unset instead of lingering on the element.
+const appliedStyleKeys = new WeakMap<HTMLElement, Set<string>>();
+
+function getDefinedStyleKeys(styles: React.CSSProperties): Set<string> {
+  const keys = new Set<string>();
+  for (const key in styles) {
+    if (styles[key] !== undefined && styles[key] !== null) {
+      keys.add(key);
+    }
+  }
+  return keys;
+}
+
+function setStyleValue(style: CSSStyleDeclaration, key: string, value) {
+  if (Number.isFinite(value) && !unitlessNumber.test(key)) {
+    style[key] = `${value}px`;
+  } else {
+    style[key] = value;
+  }
+}
+
+export function applyReactStyle(
+  element: HTMLElement | null | undefined,
+  styles: React.CSSProperties | null | undefined
+) {
+  if (!element) {
     return;
   }
   const style = element.style;
+  const nextStyles = styles ?? {};
+  const previousKeys = appliedStyleKeys.get(element);
+  const nextKeys = getDefinedStyleKeys(nextStyles);
 
-  for (const key in styles) {
-    const value = styles[key];
-    if (Number.isFinite(value) && !unitlessNumber.test(key)) {
-      style[key] = `${value}px`;
-    } else {
-      style[key] = value;
+  if (previousKeys) {
+    for (const key of previousKeys) {
+      if (!nextKeys.has(key)) {
+        style[key] = '';
+      }
     }
   }
+
+  for (const key in nextStyles) {
+    const value = nextStyles[key];
+    if (value !== undefined && value !== null) {
+      setStyleValue(style, key, value);
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (nextKeys.size) {
+    appliedStyleKeys.set(element, nextKeys);
+  } else {
+    appliedStyleKeys.delete(element);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/modules/react-mapbox/test/utils/apply-react-style.spec.js b/modules/react-mapbox/test/utils/apply-react-style.spec.js
index d246dcb71..8923036d2 100644
--- a/modules/react-mapbox/test/utils/apply-react-style.spec.js
+++ b/modules/react-mapbox/test/utils/apply-react-style.spec.js
@@ -24,3 +24,73 @@ test('applyReactStyle', t => {
 
   t.end();
 });
+
+test('applyReactStyle#unset removed properties', t => {
+  /* global document */
+  if (typeof document === 'undefined') {
+    t.end();
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const div = document.createElement('div');
+
+  applyReactStyle(div, {background: 'red', color: 'blue', borderColor: 'green'});
+  applyReactStyle(div, {background: undefined, color: 'blue', borderColor: null});
+  t.is(div.style.background, '', 'unsets a property that became undefined');
+  t.is(div.style.borderColor, '', 'unsets a property that became null');
+  t.is(div.style.color, 'blue', 'keeps a property that is still set');
+
+  applyReactStyle(div, {});
+  t.is(div.style.color, '', 'unsets a property omitted from the style object');
+
+  applyReactStyle(div, {background: 'green'});
+  t.is(div.style.background, 'green', 'reapplies a property after it was cleared');
+
+  applyReactStyle(div, undefined);
+  t.is(div.style.background, '', 'clears applied properties when styles become undefined');
+
+  applyReactStyle(div, {color: 'purple'});
+  applyReactStyle(div, null);
+  t.is(div.style.color, '', 'clears applied properties when styles become null');
+
+  t.end();
+});
+
+test('applyReactStyle#handles shorthand transitions', t => {
+  /* global document */
+  if (typeof document === 'undefined') {
+    t.end();
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const shorthandToLonghand = document.createElement('div');
+  applyReactStyle(shorthandToLonghand, {padding: '10px'});
+  applyReactStyle(shorthandToLonghand, {paddingTop: '20px'});
+  t.is(shorthandToLonghand.style.paddingTop, '20px', 'preserves a new longhand property');
+  t.is(shorthandToLonghand.style.paddingRight, '', 'clears the removed shorthand property');
+
+  const longhandToShorthand = document.createElement('div');
+  applyReactStyle(longhandToShorthand, {paddingTop: '20px'});
+  applyReactStyle(longhandToShorthand, {padding: '10px'});
+  t.is(longhandToShorthand.style.paddingTop, '10px', 'preserves a new shorthand property');
+  t.is(longhandToShorthand.style.paddingRight, '10px', 'applies all parts of the shorthand');
+
+  t.end();
+});
+
+test('applyReactStyle#preserves unmanaged inline properties', t => {
+  /* global document */
+  if (typeof document === 'undefined') {
+    t.end();
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const div = document.createElement('div');
+  div.style.opacity = '0.5';
+
+  applyReactStyle(div, {color: 'red'});
+  applyReactStyle(div, {});
+
+  t.is(div.style.opacity, '0.5', 'does not clear properties it did not apply');
+  t.end();
+});
diff --git a/modules/react-maplibre/src/utils/apply-react-style.ts b/modules/react-maplibre/src/utils/apply-react-style.ts
index 2ff1b9b64..5ca3dd5d0 100644
--- a/modules/react-maplibre/src/utils/apply-react-style.ts
+++ b/modules/react-maplibre/src/utils/apply-react-style.ts
@@ -3,18 +3,59 @@ import * as React from 'react';
 // https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/4131af3e4bf52f3a003537ec95a1655147c81270/src/renderers/dom/shared/CSSPropertyOperations.js#L62
 const unitlessNumber = /box|flex|grid|column|lineHeight|fontWeight|opacity|order|tabSize|zIndex/;
 
-export function applyReactStyle(element: HTMLElement, styles: React.CSSProperties) {
-  if (!element || !styles) {
+// Remembers the style keys applied to each element on the previous call, so that
+// properties which are later removed (set to undefined/null or omitted from the
+// style object) can be unset instead of lingering on the element.
+const appliedStyleKeys = new WeakMap<HTMLElement, Set<string>>();
+
+function getDefinedStyleKeys(styles: React.CSSProperties): Set<string> {
+  const keys = new Set<string>();
+  for (const key in styles) {
+    if (styles[key] !== undefined && styles[key] !== null) {
+      keys.add(key);
+    }
+  }
+  return keys;
+}
+
+function setStyleValue(style: CSSStyleDeclaration, key: string, value) {
+  if (Number.isFinite(value) && !unitlessNumber.test(key)) {
+    style[key] = `${value}px`;
+  } else {
+    style[key] = value;
+  }
+}
+
+export function applyReactStyle(
+  element: HTMLElement | null | undefined,
+  styles: React.CSSProperties | null | undefined
+) {
+  if (!element) {
     return;
   }
   const style = element.style;
+  const nextStyles = styles ?? {};
+  const previousKeys = appliedStyleKeys.get(element);
+  const nextKeys = getDefinedStyleKeys(nextStyles);
 
-  for (const key in styles) {
-    const value = styles[key];
-    if (Number.isFinite(value) && !unitlessNumber.test(key)) {
-      style[key] = `${value}px`;
-    } else {
-      style[key] = value;
+  if (previousKeys) {
+    for (const key of previousKeys) {
+      if (!nextKeys.has(key)) {
+        style[key] = '';
+      }
     }
   }
+
+  for (const key in nextStyles) {
+    const value = nextStyles[key];
+    if (value !== undefined && value !== null) {
+      setStyleValue(style, key, value);
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (nextKeys.size) {
+    appliedStyleKeys.set(element, nextKeys);
+  } else {
+    appliedStyleKeys.delete(element);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/modules/react-maplibre/test/utils/apply-react-style.spec.js b/modules/react-maplibre/test/utils/apply-react-style.spec.js
index 6250b2d01..440d05fe8 100644
--- a/modules/react-maplibre/test/utils/apply-react-style.spec.js
+++ b/modules/react-maplibre/test/utils/apply-react-style.spec.js
@@ -24,3 +24,73 @@ test('applyReactStyle', t => {
 
   t.end();
 });
+
+test('applyReactStyle#unset removed properties', t => {
+  /* global document */
+  if (typeof document === 'undefined') {
+    t.end();
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const div = document.createElement('div');
+
+  applyReactStyle(div, {background: 'red', color: 'blue', borderColor: 'green'});
+  applyReactStyle(div, {background: undefined, color: 'blue', borderColor: null});
+  t.is(div.style.background, '', 'unsets a property that became undefined');
+  t.is(div.style.borderColor, '', 'unsets a property that became null');
+  t.is(div.style.color, 'blue', 'keeps a property that is still set');
+
+  applyReactStyle(div, {});
+  t.is(div.style.color, '', 'unsets a property omitted from the style object');
+
+  applyReactStyle(div, {background: 'green'});
+  t.is(div.style.background, 'green', 'reapplies a property after it was cleared');
+
+  applyReactStyle(div, undefined);
+  t.is(div.style.background, '', 'clears applied properties when styles become undefined');
+
+  applyReactStyle(div, {color: 'purple'});
+  applyReactStyle(div, null);
+  t.is(div.style.color, '', 'clears applied properties when styles become null');
+
+  t.end();
+});
+
+test('applyReactStyle#handles shorthand transitions', t => {
+  /* global document */
+  if (typeof document === 'undefined') {
+    t.end();
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const shorthandToLonghand = document.createElement('div');
+  applyReactStyle(shorthandToLonghand, {padding: '10px'});
+  applyReactStyle(shorthandToLonghand, {paddingTop: '20px'});
+  t.is(shorthandToLonghand.style.paddingTop, '20px', 'preserves a new longhand property');
+  t.is(shorthandToLonghand.style.paddingRight, '', 'clears the removed shorthand property');
+
+  const longhandToShorthand = document.createElement('div');
+  applyReactStyle(longhandToShorthand, {paddingTop: '20px'});
+  applyReactStyle(longhandToShorthand, {padding: '10px'});
+  t.is(longhandToShorthand.style.paddingTop, '10px', 'preserves a new shorthand property');
+  t.is(longhandToShorthand.style.paddingRight, '10px', 'applies all parts of the shorthand');
+
+  t.end();
+});
+
+test('applyReactStyle#preserves unmanaged inline properties', t => {
+  /* global document */
+  if (typeof document === 'undefined') {
+    t.end();
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const div = document.createElement('div');
+  div.style.opacity = '0.5';
+
+  applyReactStyle(div, {color: 'red'});
+  applyReactStyle(div, {});
+
+  t.is(div.style.opacity, '0.5', 'does not clear properties it did not apply');
+  t.end();
+});