diff --git a/jwst/badpix_selfcal/badpix_selfcal_step.py b/jwst/badpix_selfcal/badpix_selfcal_step.py
index b83aaa0f63..7cead42102 100644
--- a/jwst/badpix_selfcal/badpix_selfcal_step.py
+++ b/jwst/badpix_selfcal/badpix_selfcal_step.py
@@ -123,10 +123,12 @@ def process(self, input, selfcal_list=None, bkg_list=None):
             warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=RuntimeWarning, message="All-NaN")
             minimg = np.nanmin(np.asarray(selfcal_3d), axis=0)
         bad_indices = badpix_selfcal.badpix_selfcal(minimg, self.flagfrac_lower, self.flagfrac_upper, self.kernel_size, dispaxis)
-
+        
+        
         # apply the flags to the science data
         input_sci = badpix_selfcal.apply_flags(input_sci, bad_indices)
 
+        self.log.info(f"Number of new bad pixels flagged: {len(bad_indices[0])}")
         # apply the flags to the background data to be passed to background sub step
         if len(bkg_list) > 0:
             for i, background_model in enumerate(bkg_list):