diff --git a/packages/teuchos/numerics/src/Teuchos_SerialDenseMatrix.hpp b/packages/teuchos/numerics/src/Teuchos_SerialDenseMatrix.hpp
index 9128438184e3..5f8a8a5413a1 100644
--- a/packages/teuchos/numerics/src/Teuchos_SerialDenseMatrix.hpp
+++ b/packages/teuchos/numerics/src/Teuchos_SerialDenseMatrix.hpp
@@ -364,10 +364,14 @@ class SerialDenseMatrix : public CompObject, public BLAS<OrdinalType, ScalarType
                  const OrdinalType numCols)
   {
     const size_t size = size_t(numRows) * size_t(numCols);
+#ifndef _WIN32
 #pragma GCC diagnostic push
 #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wvla"
+#endif
     return new ScalarType[size];
+#ifndef _WIN32
 #pragma GCC diagnostic pop
+#endif
   }
 
   OrdinalType numRows_ = 0;
diff --git a/packages/teuchos/numerics/src/Teuchos_SerialSymDenseMatrix.hpp b/packages/teuchos/numerics/src/Teuchos_SerialSymDenseMatrix.hpp
index a79106f3f269..653316cf8241 100644
--- a/packages/teuchos/numerics/src/Teuchos_SerialSymDenseMatrix.hpp
+++ b/packages/teuchos/numerics/src/Teuchos_SerialSymDenseMatrix.hpp
@@ -397,10 +397,14 @@ class SerialSymDenseMatrix : public CompObject, public BLAS<OrdinalType,ScalarTy
                  const OrdinalType numCols)
   {
     const size_t size = size_t(numRows) * size_t(numCols);
+#ifndef _WIN32
 #pragma GCC diagnostic push
 #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wvla"
+#endif
     return new ScalarType[size];
+#ifndef _WIN32
 #pragma GCC diagnostic pop
+#endif
   }
 
   OrdinalType numRowCols_ = 0;