diff --git a/esphome/components/esphome/ota/ota_esphome_udp.cpp b/esphome/components/esphome/ota/ota_esphome_udp.cpp
index ec263bbdc3e..6044284755c 100644
--- a/esphome/components/esphome/ota/ota_esphome_udp.cpp
+++ b/esphome/components/esphome/ota/ota_esphome_udp.cpp
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ static constexpr uint8_t UDP_FLAG_COMMITTED = 0x80;
 static constexpr uint8_t UDP_MSG_ACK = 0x40;
 static constexpr size_t UDP_HEADER_SIZE = 9;
 static constexpr size_t UDP_ACK_HEADER_SIZE = 12;
-// The client's 60 s wait for the token over a lossy TCP link, plus its 5 s probe
-static constexpr uint32_t UDP_COMMIT_TIMEOUT = 70000;
+// The client's 60 s wait for the token over a lossy TCP link, plus its 15 s probe
+static constexpr uint32_t UDP_COMMIT_TIMEOUT = 80000;
 // Like the TCP socket's SO_RCVTIMEO in handle_data_, so readall_ treats both alike
 static constexpr uint32_t UDP_READ_WAIT_MS = 2000;
 // How often the commit wait looks at the UDP link between reads of the TCP fallback byte
diff --git a/esphome/espota2.py b/esphome/espota2.py
index 4f6b17bc040..dc0d27e32cd 100644
--- a/esphome/espota2.py
+++ b/esphome/espota2.py
@@ -133,8 +133,9 @@ UDP_MAX_PAYLOAD = 1400
 # Messages the device queues unconsumed (UDP_WINDOW in ota_esphome.h); as many
 # as TCP's window holds, so UDP costs the device no more memory than TCP
 UDP_WINDOW = 4
-# Probe this long before falling back to TCP; the device waits 70 s
-UDP_PROBE_TIMEOUT = 5.0
+# Probe this long before falling back to TCP, enough to ride out a radio busy
+# with BLE; the device waits 80 s
+UDP_PROBE_TIMEOUT = 15.0
 UDP_PROBE_INTERVAL = 0.1
 # Resend timeout bounds around srtt + 4 * rttvar; random loss never grows it
 UDP_RESEND_INITIAL = 0.5