Arkansas County Foreclosure & Distress Reports (2026)
One report per county — 75 in Arkansas — each scored 0-100 from public foreclosure, tax-lien, mortgage and bank-stress records and refreshed monthly. The live county pages sit under the Arkansas distress hub; insurance pressure is on the Arkansas home-insurance page.
75 Arkansas county reports sit in this archive; Arkansas opportunity phases run 18 early_signal, 17 watchlist, 14 peak_opportunity; Arkansas ninety-day delinquency 1.3%; 78 banks chartered in Arkansas; 16,365 HUD-assisted Arkansas units.
Arkansas counties to open first by opportunity rank: Ouachita (#5, strong_buy); Calhoun (#7, strong_buy); Van Buren (#9, strong_buy) in Arkansas; Fulton (#19, strong_buy); Sevier (#28, strong_buy); Phillips (#80, strong_buy).
Arkansas insurance bands across counties: 43 medium in Arkansas, 31 low, 1 high; Arkansas NFIP claims 362 in three years.
Arkansas counties in the contraction phase (3): Craighead, Garland, Poinsett.
Arkansas counties in the neutral phase (2): Little River, Miller.
Arkansas permitted 14,772 housing units in twelve months; 188,686 Arkansas units sit vacant of 1,394,673.
Arkansas counties highest on the national opportunity index: Ouachita #5 (43.9/100, strong_buy); Calhoun #7 (43.2/100, strong_buy); Van Buren #9 (43.1/100, strong_buy) in Arkansas; Fulton #19 (40.7/100, strong_buy); Sevier #28 (39.5/100, strong_buy); Phillips #80 (37.7/100, strong_buy) in Arkansas; Izard #80 (37.7/100, strong_buy); Howard #80 (37.7/100, overheated); Bradley #97 (37.2/100, strong_buy) in Arkansas; Hempstead #111 (37.0/100, strong_buy); Union #111 (37.0/100, strong_buy); Poinsett #117 (36.9/100, strong_buy) in Arkansas.
How the Arkansas county reports are scored: each Arkansas report reads its county's foreclosure filings, Arkansas tax-lien and tax-deed records, FHA mortgage delinquency in Arkansas (ninety-day rate 1.3%, December 2025), the FDIC stress of Arkansas lenders (78 chartered in Arkansas) and FEMA/NFIP pressure on Arkansas (362 NFIP claims, three years), then scores every Arkansas ZIP 0-100.
Ouachita County leads Arkansas on the opportunity index at #5 nationally with 8 scored ZIPs. Every Arkansas report is rebuilt monthly from public records; a Arkansas county whose data lapses keeps its Arkansas page and says so.