diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4458f034c4c7..4b18348a47b1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Changed
 
 ### Fixed
+Properly nullified the pointers to the per-grid-cell counters
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/generic/GenericCplComp.F90 b/generic/GenericCplComp.F90
index 953c4e2c781f..f4485057cba7 100644
--- a/generic/GenericCplComp.F90
+++ b/generic/GenericCplComp.F90
@@ -326,6 +326,12 @@ subroutine Initialize(CC, SRC, DST, CLOCK, RC)
     _VERIFY(STATUS)
     allocate(STATE%ARRAY_COUNT (NCPLS), STAT=STATUS)
     _VERIFY(STATUS)
+    DO J = 1, NCPLS
+       NULLIFY(STATE%ARRAY_COUNT(J)%ptr1c)
+       NULLIFY(STATE%ARRAY_COUNT(J)%ptr2c)
+       NULLIFY(STATE%ARRAY_COUNT(J)%ptr3c)
+       NULLIFY(STATE%ARRAY_COUNT(J)%ptr4c)
+    END DO
     allocate(STATE%ACCUM_RANK (NCPLS), STAT=STATUS)
     _VERIFY(STATUS)
     allocate(STATE%couplerType(NCPLS), STAT=STATUS)