diff --git a/apps/api-extractor/src/analyzer/ExportAnalyzer.ts b/apps/api-extractor/src/analyzer/ExportAnalyzer.ts
index 33867923bb5..ee15a9e356d 100644
--- a/apps/api-extractor/src/analyzer/ExportAnalyzer.ts
+++ b/apps/api-extractor/src/analyzer/ExportAnalyzer.ts
@@ -155,10 +155,22 @@ export class ExportAnalyzer {
           if (exportStarSymbol) {
             for (const exportStarDeclaration of exportStarSymbol.getDeclarations() || []) {
               if (ts.isExportDeclaration(exportStarDeclaration)) {
-                const starExportedModule: AstModule | undefined = this._fetchSpecifierAstModule(
-                  exportStarDeclaration,
-                  exportStarSymbol
-                );
+                let starExportedModule: AstModule | undefined;
+
+                try {
+                  starExportedModule = this._fetchSpecifierAstModule(exportStarDeclaration, exportStarSymbol);
+                } catch {
+                  // handle export star from ambient modules, they are treated as external modules
+                  // such as export * from 'fs' in @types/fs-extra
+                  const sourceFile: ts.SourceFile = exportStarDeclaration.getSourceFile();
+                  const moduleSymbol: ts.Symbol = this._getModuleSymbolFromSourceFile(sourceFile, undefined);
+
+                  starExportedModule = new AstModule({
+                    sourceFile,
+                    moduleSymbol,
+                    externalModulePath: this._getModuleSpecifier(exportStarDeclaration)
+                  });
+                }
 
                 if (starExportedModule !== undefined) {
                   astModule.starExportedModules.add(starExportedModule);
diff --git a/build-tests/api-extractor-scenarios/etc/test-outputs/exportStar2/api-extractor-scenarios.api.md b/build-tests/api-extractor-scenarios/etc/test-outputs/exportStar2/api-extractor-scenarios.api.md
index b1e36006e9d..9e109e4fb48 100644
--- a/build-tests/api-extractor-scenarios/etc/test-outputs/exportStar2/api-extractor-scenarios.api.md
+++ b/build-tests/api-extractor-scenarios/etc/test-outputs/exportStar2/api-extractor-scenarios.api.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ export class A {
 
 export * from "api-extractor-lib1-test";
 export * from "api-extractor-lib2-test";
+export * from "fs";
 
 // (No @packageDocumentation comment for this package)
 
diff --git a/build-tests/api-extractor-scenarios/etc/test-outputs/exportStar2/rollup.d.ts b/build-tests/api-extractor-scenarios/etc/test-outputs/exportStar2/rollup.d.ts
index 55d21f77bf6..402fa74e8bf 100644
--- a/build-tests/api-extractor-scenarios/etc/test-outputs/exportStar2/rollup.d.ts
+++ b/build-tests/api-extractor-scenarios/etc/test-outputs/exportStar2/rollup.d.ts
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ export declare class A {
 
 export * from "api-extractor-lib1-test";
 export * from "api-extractor-lib2-test";
+export * from "fs";
 
 export { }
diff --git a/build-tests/api-extractor-scenarios/src/exportStar2/index.ts b/build-tests/api-extractor-scenarios/src/exportStar2/index.ts
index 0c69d7b4abe..1f8109aba3f 100644
--- a/build-tests/api-extractor-scenarios/src/exportStar2/index.ts
+++ b/build-tests/api-extractor-scenarios/src/exportStar2/index.ts
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
 export * from './reexportStar';
 
 export * from 'api-extractor-lib2-test';
+export * from 'fs';
diff --git a/common/changes/@microsoft/api-extractor/hotfix-export-star-ambient_2022-07-10-10-22.json b/common/changes/@microsoft/api-extractor/hotfix-export-star-ambient_2022-07-10-10-22.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..aabe5e46293
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/changes/@microsoft/api-extractor/hotfix-export-star-ambient_2022-07-10-10-22.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "changes": [
+    {
+      "packageName": "@microsoft/api-extractor",
+      "comment": "Fix error for export star from ambient module",
+      "type": "patch"
+    }
+  ],
+  "packageName": "@microsoft/api-extractor"
+}
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