diff --git a/esphome/components/image/__init__.py b/esphome/components/image/__init__.py
index e80ba4498f..c72417bcda 100644
--- a/esphome/components/image/__init__.py
+++ b/esphome/components/image/__init__.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import logging
 from pathlib import Path
 import re
 
-from magic import Magic
+import puremagic
 
 from esphome import core, external_files
 import esphome.codegen as cg
@@ -237,8 +237,8 @@ CONFIG_SCHEMA = cv.All(font.validate_pillow_installed, IMAGE_SCHEMA)
 
 
 def load_svg_image(file: bytes, resize: tuple[int, int]):
-    # Local import only to allow "validate_pillow_installed" to run *before* importing it
-    # This import is only needed in case of SVG images; adding it
+    # Local imports only to allow "validate_pillow_installed" to run *before* importing it
+    # cairosvg is only needed in case of SVG images; adding it
     # to the top would force configurations not using SVG to also have it
     # installed for no reason.
     from cairosvg import svg2png
@@ -281,8 +281,7 @@ async def to_code(config):
     except Exception as e:
         raise core.EsphomeError(f"Could not load image file {path}: {e}")
 
-    mime = Magic(mime=True)
-    file_type = mime.from_buffer(file_contents)
+    file_type = puremagic.from_string(file_contents, mime=True)
 
     resize = config.get(CONF_RESIZE)
     if "svg" in file_type:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3e658de8ad..3ffd364d87 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ click==8.1.7
 esphome-dashboard==20240620.0
 aioesphomeapi==24.6.2
 zeroconf==0.132.2
-python-magic==0.4.27
+puremagic==1.27
 ruamel.yaml==0.18.6 # dashboard_import
 
 # esp-idf requires this, but doesn't bundle it by default