diff --git a/pyrightconfig.stricter.json b/pyrightconfig.stricter.json
index 233d97b53514..0f60940d2d0c 100644
--- a/pyrightconfig.stricter.json
+++ b/pyrightconfig.stricter.json
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@
         "stubs/pyasn1",
         "stubs/Pygments",
         "stubs/PyMySQL",
-        "stubs/pyogrio",
         "stubs/python-jose",
         "stubs/pywin32",
         "stubs/PyYAML",
diff --git a/stubs/pyogrio/pyogrio/raw.pyi b/stubs/pyogrio/pyogrio/raw.pyi
index 39a97f65a82d..5fd2a18a222b 100644
--- a/stubs/pyogrio/pyogrio/raw.pyi
+++ b/stubs/pyogrio/pyogrio/raw.pyi
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def read_arrow(
     *,
     batch_size: int = 65536,  # Extracted from kwargs
     **kwargs: Any,  # Dataset open options passed to OGR
-) -> tuple[_Meta, pa.Table]: ...
+) -> tuple[_Meta, pa.Table]: ...  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownMemberType]  # pyarrow is an optional dependency
 
 @overload
 def open_arrow(
@@ -136,7 +136,9 @@ def open_arrow(
     use_pyarrow: Literal[True],
     datetime_as_string: bool = False,
     **kwargs: Any,  # Dataset open options passed to OGR
-) -> AbstractContextManager[tuple[_Meta, pa.RecordBatchReader]]: ...
+) -> AbstractContextManager[
+    tuple[_Meta, pa.RecordBatchReader]
+]: ...  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownMemberType]  # pyarrow is an optional dependency
 
 def write(
     path: WritePathOrBuffer,