diff --git a/share/spack/qa/run-flake8 b/share/spack/qa/run-flake8
index e41cd0d47141db8337287b13ed085a5b142a1060..ffc82313a578eeb4c10e3b5aaf018def82cc4d5b 100755
--- a/share/spack/qa/run-flake8
+++ b/share/spack/qa/run-flake8
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ changed=($(git diff --name-only --find-renames develop... -- '*.py'))
 changed+=($(git diff --name-only --find-renames --cached -- '*.py'))
 # Add changed files that are unstaged
 changed+=($(git diff --name-only --find-renames -- '*.py'))
+# Add new files that are untracked
+changed+=($(git ls-files --exclude-standard --other -- '*.py'))
 
 # Ensure that each file in the array is unique
 changed=($(printf '%s\n' "${changed[@]}" | sort -u))