diff --git a/lib/src/gestures/map_interactive_viewer.dart b/lib/src/gestures/map_interactive_viewer.dart
index 34a9c4bf2..252080994 100644
--- a/lib/src/gestures/map_interactive_viewer.dart
+++ b/lib/src/gestures/map_interactive_viewer.dart
@@ -802,17 +802,14 @@ class MapInteractiveViewerState extends State<MapInteractiveViewer>
     // gestures where the user changes direction during the drag.
     final flingOffset = _focalStartLocal - _lastFocalLocal;
     final finalSegment = _prevFocalLocal - _lastFocalLocal;
-    final finalSegmentDistance = finalSegment.distance;
 
-    // Use final segment direction if available, otherwise fall back to overall
-    // direction for edge cases where the final segment has no movement.
-    final Offset direction;
-    if (finalSegmentDistance > 0) {
-      direction = finalSegment / finalSegmentDistance;
-    } else {
-      final flingDistance = flingOffset.distance;
-      direction = flingOffset / flingDistance;
-    }
+    final direction = flingDirection(
+      finalSegment: finalSegment,
+      flingOffset: flingOffset,
+      // `magnitude` is checked to be non-zero above, so this is always a
+      // finite, non-zero-length direction and is a safe final fallback.
+      velocityDirection: details.velocity.pixelsPerSecond / magnitude,
+    );
     final distance = (Offset.zero & _camera.nonRotatedSize).shortestSide;
 
     _flingAnimation = Tween<Offset>(
@@ -831,6 +828,31 @@ class MapInteractiveViewerState extends State<MapInteractiveViewer>
           ));
   }
 
+  /// Calculates the direction a fling gesture should continue in.
+  ///
+  /// Prefers the direction of the final tracked pointer segment, falling
+  /// back to the overall drag direction. If both [finalSegment] and
+  /// [flingOffset] have zero length - which can happen even when the
+  /// gesture recognizer reports a velocity above the fling threshold, since
+  /// the velocity is fitted over multiple recent samples and is not
+  /// necessarily proportional to the last tracked position deltas - falls
+  /// back to [velocityDirection] to avoid a division by zero (which would
+  /// otherwise produce a `NaN` direction and corrupt the camera position).
+  @visibleForTesting
+  static Offset flingDirection({
+    required Offset finalSegment,
+    required Offset flingOffset,
+    required Offset velocityDirection,
+  }) {
+    final finalSegmentDistance = finalSegment.distance;
+    if (finalSegmentDistance > 0) return finalSegment / finalSegmentDistance;
+
+    final flingDistance = flingOffset.distance;
+    if (flingDistance > 0) return flingOffset / flingDistance;
+
+    return velocityDirection;
+  }
+
   void _handleTap(TapPosition position) {
     if (_ckrTriggered.value) return;
 
diff --git a/test/gestures/map_interactive_viewer_test.dart b/test/gestures/map_interactive_viewer_test.dart
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b7ee28728
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/gestures/map_interactive_viewer_test.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import 'package:flutter_map/src/gestures/map_interactive_viewer.dart';
+import 'package:flutter_test/flutter_test.dart';
+
+void main() {
+  group('MapInteractiveViewerState.flingDirection', () {
+    test('uses the final segment direction when it has non-zero length', () {
+      final direction = MapInteractiveViewerState.flingDirection(
+        finalSegment: const Offset(10, 0),
+        flingOffset: const Offset(100, 0),
+        velocityDirection: const Offset(0, 1),
+      );
+
+      expect(direction, const Offset(1, 0));
+    });
+
+    test(
+      'falls back to the overall drag direction when the final segment has '
+      'zero length',
+      () {
+        final direction = MapInteractiveViewerState.flingDirection(
+          finalSegment: Offset.zero,
+          flingOffset: const Offset(0, -50),
+          velocityDirection: const Offset(1, 0),
+        );
+
+        expect(direction, const Offset(0, -1));
+      },
+    );
+
+    test(
+      'falls back to the velocity direction instead of dividing by zero '
+      'when both the final segment and the overall drag offset have zero '
+      'length (regression test: this previously produced a NaN direction, '
+      'which corrupted the camera position - '
+      'https://github.com/fleaflet/flutter_map/issues/2199)',
+      () {
+        final direction = MapInteractiveViewerState.flingDirection(
+          finalSegment: Offset.zero,
+          flingOffset: Offset.zero,
+          velocityDirection: const Offset(0.6, 0.8),
+        );
+
+        expect(direction, const Offset(0.6, 0.8));
+        expect(direction.dx.isFinite, isTrue);
+        expect(direction.dy.isFinite, isTrue);
+      },
+    );
+  });
+}