diff --git a/changes/3195.bugfix.rst b/changes/3195.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..44a7ce9105
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/3195.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add missing import for AsyncFileSystemWrapper for _make_async in _fsspec.py
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diff --git a/src/zarr/storage/_fsspec.py b/src/zarr/storage/_fsspec.py
index 4f6929456e..0d854b0561 100644
--- a/src/zarr/storage/_fsspec.py
+++ b/src/zarr/storage/_fsspec.py
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ def _make_async(fs: AbstractFileSystem) -> AsyncFileSystem:
             "2024.12.0 or later to enable this functionality."
         )
 
-    return fsspec.implementations.asyn_wrapper.AsyncFileSystemWrapper(fs, asynchronous=True)
+    from fsspec.implementations.asyn_wrapper import AsyncFileSystemWrapper
+
+    return AsyncFileSystemWrapper(fs, asynchronous=True)
 
 
 class FsspecStore(Store):