diff --git a/indexer/beacon/finalization.go b/indexer/beacon/finalization.go
index fbddf22..7bb4eda 100644
--- a/indexer/beacon/finalization.go
+++ b/indexer/beacon/finalization.go
@@ -369,6 +369,12 @@ func (indexer *Indexer) finalizeEpoch(epoch phase0.Epoch, justifiedRoot phase0.R
 
 	t1 = time.Now()
 
+	// clean fork cache
+	indexer.forkCache.setFinalizedEpoch(deleteBeforeSlot, justifiedRoot)
+	for _, fork := range indexer.forkCache.getForksBefore(deleteBeforeSlot) {
+		indexer.forkCache.removeFork(fork.forkId)
+	}
+
 	// clean epoch stats
 	indexer.epochCache.removeEpochStatsByEpoch(epoch)
 
@@ -380,12 +386,6 @@ func (indexer *Indexer) finalizeEpoch(epoch phase0.Epoch, justifiedRoot phase0.R
 		indexer.blockCache.removeBlock(block)
 	}
 
-	// clean fork cache
-	indexer.forkCache.setFinalizedEpoch(deleteBeforeSlot, justifiedRoot)
-	for _, fork := range indexer.forkCache.getForksBefore(deleteBeforeSlot) {
-		indexer.forkCache.removeFork(fork.forkId)
-	}
-
 	// log summary
 	indexer.logger.Infof("completed epoch %v finalization (process: %v ms, load: %v s, write: %v ms, clean: %v ms)", epoch, t1dur.Milliseconds(), t1loading.Seconds(), t2dur.Milliseconds(), time.Since(t1).Milliseconds())
 	indexer.logger.Infof("epoch %v blocks: %v canonical, %v orphaned", epoch, len(canonicalBlocks), len(orphanedBlocks))