diff --git a/change/@fluentui-react-tree-8e9777b6-6274-44dd-b7ce-08b5886bec49.json b/change/@fluentui-react-tree-8e9777b6-6274-44dd-b7ce-08b5886bec49.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..db09e5486bcbe9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/change/@fluentui-react-tree-8e9777b6-6274-44dd-b7ce-08b5886bec49.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "type": "prerelease",
+  "comment": "chore: updates useOpenItemsState internals",
+  "packageName": "@fluentui/react-tree",
+  "email": "bernardo.sunderhus@gmail.com",
+  "dependentChangeType": "patch"
+}
diff --git a/packages/react-components/react-tree/src/hooks/useOpenItemsState.ts b/packages/react-components/react-tree/src/hooks/useOpenItemsState.ts
index 2dbb3990aac2ee..1fe50eccb2e101 100644
--- a/packages/react-components/react-tree/src/hooks/useOpenItemsState.ts
+++ b/packages/react-components/react-tree/src/hooks/useOpenItemsState.ts
@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@ import type { TreeOpenChangeData, TreeProps } from '../Tree';
 export function useOpenItemsState<Value = string>(props: Pick<TreeProps<Value>, 'openItems' | 'defaultOpenItems'>) {
   const [openItems, setOpenItems] = useControllableState({
     state: React.useMemo(() => props.openItems && createImmutableSet(props.openItems), [props.openItems]),
-    defaultState: React.useMemo(
-      () => props.defaultOpenItems && createImmutableSet(props.defaultOpenItems),
-      [props.defaultOpenItems],
-    ),
+    defaultState: props.defaultOpenItems && (() => createImmutableSet(props.defaultOpenItems)),
     initialState: emptyImmutableSet,
   });
   const updateOpenItems = useEventCallback((data: TreeOpenChangeData<Value>) =>