diff --git a/esphome/components/api/api_connection.cpp b/esphome/components/api/api_connection.cpp
index 811714c70ed..38d06be89bb 100644
--- a/esphome/components/api/api_connection.cpp
+++ b/esphome/components/api/api_connection.cpp
@@ -1179,7 +1179,8 @@ static constexpr size_t STORE_YAML_CHUNK_SIZE = 512;
 static uint8_t store_yaml_chunk_buf[STORE_YAML_CHUNK_SIZE];
 
 void APIConnection::on_get_yaml_request() {
-  if (store_yaml::global_store_yaml == nullptr || store_yaml::global_store_yaml->get_data() == nullptr) {
+  auto *comp = store_yaml::global_store_yaml;
+  if (comp == nullptr || comp->get_size() == 0) {
     // No blob — send a single done=true response so the client doesn't hang.
     GetYamlResponse resp;
     resp.done = true;
@@ -1197,7 +1198,6 @@ void APIConnection::try_send_store_yaml_() {
   if (comp == nullptr)
     return;
 
-  const uint8_t *data = comp->get_data();
   const size_t total = comp->get_size();
 
   while (this->store_yaml_pos_ < total || this->store_yaml_pos_ == 0) {
@@ -1207,10 +1207,9 @@ void APIConnection::try_send_store_yaml_() {
     const size_t remaining = total - this->store_yaml_pos_;
     const size_t to_send = remaining < STORE_YAML_CHUNK_SIZE ? remaining : STORE_YAML_CHUNK_SIZE;
 
-    // Copy from PROGMEM into a stack buffer. progmem_read_byte is a no-op except on ESP8266.
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < to_send; i++) {
-      store_yaml_chunk_buf[i] = progmem_read_byte(&data[this->store_yaml_pos_ + i]);
-    }
+    // Pulls a chunk out of PROGMEM into a stack buffer; on ESP8266 this routes
+    // through progmem_read_byte, on every other platform it's a plain byte copy.
+    comp->read_chunk(this->store_yaml_pos_, store_yaml_chunk_buf, to_send);
 
     GetYamlResponse resp;
     resp.set_data(store_yaml_chunk_buf, to_send);
diff --git a/esphome/components/store_yaml/store_yaml.cpp b/esphome/components/store_yaml/store_yaml.cpp
index 86b7a29f1c1..3a3e57c627e 100644
--- a/esphome/components/store_yaml/store_yaml.cpp
+++ b/esphome/components/store_yaml/store_yaml.cpp
@@ -14,10 +14,19 @@ StoreYamlComponent *global_store_yaml = nullptr;
 void StoreYamlComponent::setup() { global_store_yaml = this; }
 
 void StoreYamlComponent::dump_config() {
-  ESP_LOGCONFIG(TAG, "YAML:");
-  ESP_LOGCONFIG(TAG, "  Compressed size: %zu bytes", this->size_);
-  ESP_LOGCONFIG(TAG, "  Uncompressed size: %zu bytes", this->uncompressed_size_);
-  ESP_LOGCONFIG(TAG, "  Encoding: %s", ENCODING);
+  ESP_LOGCONFIG(TAG,
+                "YAML:\n"
+                "  Compressed size: %zu bytes\n"
+                "  Uncompressed size: %zu bytes\n"
+                "  Encoding: %s",
+                this->size_, this->uncompressed_size_, ENCODING);
+}
+
+void StoreYamlComponent::read_chunk(size_t pos, uint8_t *dst, size_t len) const {
+  const uint8_t *src = this->data_ + pos;
+  for (size_t i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+    dst[i] = progmem_read_byte(&src[i]);
+  }
 }
 
 }  // namespace esphome::store_yaml
diff --git a/esphome/components/store_yaml/store_yaml.h b/esphome/components/store_yaml/store_yaml.h
index 6b0063264d1..61f3b87e728 100644
--- a/esphome/components/store_yaml/store_yaml.h
+++ b/esphome/components/store_yaml/store_yaml.h
@@ -23,11 +23,19 @@ class StoreYamlComponent : public Component {
     this->size_ = size;
     this->uncompressed_size_ = uncompressed_size;
   }
-  const uint8_t *get_data() const { return this->data_; }
   size_t get_size() const { return this->size_; }
   size_t get_uncompressed_size() const { return this->uncompressed_size_; }
 
+  // Copy `len` bytes from the PROGMEM blob at offset `pos` into `dst`.
+  // Hides the platform-specific read (no-op everywhere except ESP8266, where the
+  // blob lives in code space and must be read through `progmem_read_byte`).
+  void read_chunk(size_t pos, uint8_t *dst, size_t len) const;
+
  protected:
+  // Points to a `const uint8_t[] PROGMEM` array emitted by codegen. On ESP8266 this
+  // address is in instruction flash and must be accessed via `progmem_read_byte` —
+  // hence the `read_chunk` accessor above. There is no public getter for the raw
+  // pointer; callers must go through `read_chunk`.
   const uint8_t *data_{nullptr};
   size_t size_{0};
   size_t uncompressed_size_{0};