diff --git a/esphome/components/sensor/filter.h b/esphome/components/sensor/filter.h
index 9c45443cdc..3c251982e7 100644
--- a/esphome/components/sensor/filter.h
+++ b/esphome/components/sensor/filter.h
@@ -474,13 +474,7 @@ optional<float> or_filter_new_value(Filter **filters, size_t count, float value,
 /// N is set by code generation to match the exact number of filters configured in YAML.
 template<size_t N> class OrFilter : public Filter {
  public:
-  explicit OrFilter(std::initializer_list<Filter *> filters) {
-    ESPHOME_DEBUG_ASSERT(filters.size() == N);
-    size_t i = 0;
-    for (auto *f : filters) {
-      this->filters_[i++] = f;
-    }
-  }
+  explicit OrFilter(std::initializer_list<Filter *> filters) { init_array_from(this->filters_, filters); }
 
   void initialize(Sensor *parent, Filter *next) override {
     Filter::initialize(parent, next);
diff --git a/esphome/core/helpers.h b/esphome/core/helpers.h
index 82c6b3833c..51feaa57c5 100644
--- a/esphome/core/helpers.h
+++ b/esphome/core/helpers.h
@@ -497,6 +497,21 @@ template<typename T, size_t MAX_CAPACITY = std::numeric_limits<uint16_t>::max()>
   index_type capacity_{0};
 };
 
+/// Initialize a std::array from an initializer_list. Uses memcpy for trivially copyable types (optimal codegen),
+/// falls back to element-wise copy for non-trivially copyable types (e.g. TemplatableValue).
+/// N is set by code generation; ESPHOME_DEBUG_ASSERT catches mismatches in debug/integration tests.
+template<typename T, size_t N> inline void init_array_from(std::array<T, N> &dest, std::initializer_list<T> src) {
+  ESPHOME_DEBUG_ASSERT(src.size() == N);
+  if constexpr (std::is_trivially_copyable_v<T>) {
+    __builtin_memcpy(dest.data(), src.begin(), N * sizeof(T));
+  } else {
+    size_t i = 0;
+    for (const auto &v : src) {
+      dest[i++] = v;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 /// Fixed-capacity vector - allocates once at runtime, never reallocates
 /// This avoids std::vector template overhead (_M_realloc_insert, _M_default_append)
 /// when size is known at initialization but not at compile time