diff --git a/backend/local/backend_plan.go b/backend/local/backend_plan.go
index e995d2bc821f..0a7f28dac110 100644
--- a/backend/local/backend_plan.go
+++ b/backend/local/backend_plan.go
@@ -260,9 +260,10 @@ func (b *Local) renderPlan(plan *plans.Plan, state *states.State, schemas *terra
 		// check if the change is due to a tainted resource
 		tainted := false
 		if !state.Empty() {
-			rs := state.ResourceInstance(rcs.Addr)
-			if rs != nil {
-				tainted = rs.Current.Status == states.ObjectTainted
+			if is := state.ResourceInstance(rcs.Addr); is != nil {
+				if obj := is.GetGeneration(rcs.DeposedKey.Generation()); obj != nil {
+					tainted = obj.Status == states.ObjectTainted
+				}
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/backend/local/backend_plan_test.go b/backend/local/backend_plan_test.go
index 68bb5a90a0d5..6554d72b8ad0 100644
--- a/backend/local/backend_plan_test.go
+++ b/backend/local/backend_plan_test.go
@@ -193,6 +193,121 @@ Plan: 1 to add, 0 to change, 1 to destroy.`
 	}
 }
 
+func TestLocal_planDeposedOnly(t *testing.T) {
+	b, cleanup := TestLocal(t)
+	defer cleanup()
+	p := TestLocalProvider(t, b, "test", planFixtureSchema())
+	testStateFile(t, b.StatePath, states.BuildState(func(ss *states.SyncState) {
+		ss.SetResourceInstanceDeposed(
+			addrs.Resource{
+				Mode: addrs.ManagedResourceMode,
+				Type: "test_instance",
+				Name: "foo",
+			}.Instance(addrs.NoKey).Absolute(addrs.RootModuleInstance),
+			states.DeposedKey("00000000"),
+			&states.ResourceInstanceObjectSrc{
+				Status: states.ObjectReady,
+				AttrsJSON: []byte(`{
+				"ami": "bar",
+				"network_interface": [{
+					"device_index": 0,
+					"description": "Main network interface"
+				}]
+			}`),
+			},
+			addrs.ProviderConfig{
+				Type: "test",
+			}.Absolute(addrs.RootModuleInstance),
+		)
+	}))
+	b.CLI = cli.NewMockUi()
+	outDir := testTempDir(t)
+	defer os.RemoveAll(outDir)
+	planPath := filepath.Join(outDir, "plan.tfplan")
+	op, configCleanup := testOperationPlan(t, "./test-fixtures/plan")
+	defer configCleanup()
+	op.PlanRefresh = true
+	op.PlanOutPath = planPath
+	cfg := cty.ObjectVal(map[string]cty.Value{
+		"path": cty.StringVal(b.StatePath),
+	})
+	cfgRaw, err := plans.NewDynamicValue(cfg, cfg.Type())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	op.PlanOutBackend = &plans.Backend{
+		// Just a placeholder so that we can generate a valid plan file.
+		Type:   "local",
+		Config: cfgRaw,
+	}
+	run, err := b.Operation(context.Background(), op)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("bad: %s", err)
+	}
+	<-run.Done()
+	if run.Result != backend.OperationSuccess {
+		t.Fatalf("plan operation failed")
+	}
+	if !p.ReadResourceCalled {
+		t.Fatal("ReadResource should be called")
+	}
+	if run.PlanEmpty {
+		t.Fatal("plan should not be empty")
+	}
+
+	// The deposed object and the current object are distinct, so our
+	// plan includes separate actions for each of them. This strange situation
+	// is not common: it should arise only if Terraform fails during
+	// a create-before-destroy when the create hasn't completed yet but
+	// in a severe way that prevents the previous object from being restored
+	// as "current".
+	//
+	// However, that situation was more common in some earlier Terraform
+	// versions where deposed objects were not managed properly, so this
+	// can arise when upgrading from an older version with deposed objects
+	// already in the state.
+	//
+	// This is one of the few cases where we expose the idea of "deposed" in
+	// the UI, including the user-unfriendly "deposed key" (00000000 in this
+	// case) just so that users can correlate this with what they might
+	// see in `terraform show` and in the subsequent apply output, because
+	// it's also possible for there to be _multiple_ deposed objects, in the
+	// unlikely event that create_before_destroy _keeps_ crashing across
+	// subsequent runs.
+	expectedOutput := `An execution plan has been generated and is shown below.
+Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols:
+  + create
+  - destroy
+
+Terraform will perform the following actions:
+
+  # test_instance.foo will be created
+  + resource "test_instance" "foo" {
+      + ami = "bar"
+
+      + network_interface {
+          + description  = "Main network interface"
+          + device_index = 0
+        }
+    }
+
+  # test_instance.foo (deposed object 00000000) will be destroyed
+  - resource "test_instance" "foo" {
+      - ami = "bar" -> null
+
+      - network_interface {
+          - description  = "Main network interface" -> null
+          - device_index = 0 -> null
+        }
+    }
+
+Plan: 1 to add, 0 to change, 1 to destroy.`
+	output := b.CLI.(*cli.MockUi).OutputWriter.String()
+	if !strings.Contains(output, expectedOutput) {
+		t.Fatalf("Unexpected output:\n%s\n\nwant output containing:\n%s", output, expectedOutput)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestLocal_planTainted_createBeforeDestroy(t *testing.T) {
 	b, cleanup := TestLocal(t)
 	defer cleanup()