diff --git a/show-status.sh b/show-status.sh
index af190464..ef68d945 100755
--- a/show-status.sh
+++ b/show-status.sh
@@ -79,6 +79,16 @@ for pid in "${pids[@]}"; do
     wait "$pid"
 done
 
+# Fenced nodes (fleet-state maintenance windows) are dropped from COMPOSE_FILE
+# by rpc-update, so they never appear above even though their containers keep
+# running. The .fenced marker is written by the same rpc-update task that
+# fences them and is rewritten every reconcile (empty once windows expire).
+if [ -s "$BASEPATH/.fenced" ]; then
+    echo ""
+    echo "Fenced (maintenance window - running but unmanaged, not checked above):"
+    sed 's/^/  /' "$BASEPATH/.fenced"
+fi
+
 # If any invocation failed, return a failure exit code
 if $any_failure; then
     exit 1