diff --git a/db_stress_tool/db_stress_common.h b/db_stress_tool/db_stress_common.h
index 8ae432cc73..a56bd98cd3 100644
--- a/db_stress_tool/db_stress_common.h
+++ b/db_stress_tool/db_stress_common.h
@@ -417,6 +417,7 @@ DECLARE_bool(check_multiget_consistency);
 DECLARE_bool(check_multiget_entity_consistency);
 DECLARE_bool(inplace_update_support);
 DECLARE_uint32(uncache_aggressiveness);
+DECLARE_int32(test_ingest_standalone_range_deletion_one_in);
 
 constexpr long KB = 1024;
 constexpr int kRandomValueMaxFactor = 3;
diff --git a/db_stress_tool/db_stress_gflags.cc b/db_stress_tool/db_stress_gflags.cc
index a2632dfa3e..f454148ad9 100644
--- a/db_stress_tool/db_stress_gflags.cc
+++ b/db_stress_tool/db_stress_gflags.cc
@@ -835,6 +835,10 @@ DEFINE_bool(use_get_entity, false, "If set, use the GetEntity API for reads");
 DEFINE_bool(use_multi_get_entity, false,
             "If set, use the MultiGetEntity API for reads");
 
+DEFINE_int32(test_ingest_standalone_range_deletion_one_in, 0,
+             "If non-zero, file ingestion flow will test standalone range "
+             "deletion file once every N file ingestion operations.");
+
 static bool ValidateInt32Percent(const char* flagname, int32_t value) {
   if (value < 0 || value > 100) {
     fprintf(stderr, "Invalid value for --%s: %d, 0<= pct <=100 \n", flagname,
diff --git a/db_stress_tool/no_batched_ops_stress.cc b/db_stress_tool/no_batched_ops_stress.cc
index a5a61d28f1..5f6dbd6006 100644
--- a/db_stress_tool/no_batched_ops_stress.cc
+++ b/db_stress_tool/no_batched_ops_stress.cc
@@ -1994,9 +1994,8 @@ class NonBatchedOpsStressTest : public StressTest {
     // a continuous range of keys, the second one with a standalone range
     // deletion for all the keys. This is to exercise the standalone range
     // deletion file's compaction input optimization.
-    // TODO(yuzhangyu): make this an option.
-    bool test_standalone_range_deletion =
-        thread->rand.OneInOpt(10) && FLAGS_delrangepercent > 0;
+    bool test_standalone_range_deletion = thread->rand.OneInOpt(
+        FLAGS_test_ingest_standalone_range_deletion_one_in);
     std::vector<std::string> external_files;
     const std::string sst_filename =
         FLAGS_db + "/." + std::to_string(thread->tid) + ".sst";
diff --git a/tools/db_crashtest.py b/tools/db_crashtest.py
index ccfa878d29..38d56c49c1 100644
--- a/tools/db_crashtest.py
+++ b/tools/db_crashtest.py
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ default_params = {
     # Temporarily disable hash index
     "index_type": lambda: random.choice([0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 3]),
     "ingest_external_file_one_in": lambda: random.choice([1000, 1000000]),
+    "test_ingest_standalone_range_deletion_one_in": lambda: random.choice([0, 5, 10]),
     "iterpercent": 10,
     "lock_wal_one_in": lambda: random.choice([10000, 1000000]),
     "mark_for_compaction_one_file_in": lambda: 10 * random.randint(0, 1),
@@ -971,6 +972,8 @@ def finalize_and_sanitize(src_params):
     # can cause checkpoint verification to fail. So make the two mutually exclusive.
     if dest_params.get("checkpoint_one_in") != 0:
         dest_params["lock_wal_one_in"] = 0
+    if dest_params.get("ingest_external_file_one_in") == 0 or dest_params.get("delrangepercent") == 0:
+        dest_params["test_ingest_standalone_range_deletion_one_in"] = 0
     return dest_params