Missouri County Foreclosure & Distress Reports (2026)

One report per county — 114 in Missouri — each scored 0-100 from public foreclosure, tax-lien, mortgage and bank-stress records and refreshed monthly. The live county pages sit under the Missouri distress hub; insurance pressure is on the Missouri home-insurance page.

114 Missouri county reports sit in this archive; Missouri opportunity phases run 49 weak, 35 early_signal, 15 watchlist; Missouri ninety-day delinquency 0.9%; 195 banks chartered in Missouri; 36,605 HUD-assisted Missouri units.

Missouri counties to open first by opportunity rank: Oregon (#52, strong_buy); Sullivan (#143, strong_buy); Holt (#363, overheated) in Missouri; Mcdonald (#390, peak_opportunity); Shannon (#403, peak_opportunity); Crawford (#421, peak_opportunity).

Missouri insurance bands across counties: 62 low in Missouri, 30 medium, 21 zero, 2 high; Missouri NFIP claims 549 in three years.

Missouri counties in the peak phase (107): Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Audrain, Barry, Barton (Missouri), Bates, Benton, Bollinger, Buchanan, Butler, Caldwell (Missouri), Callaway, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carroll, Carter, Cass (Missouri), Cedar, Chariton, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Cole (Missouri), Crawford, Dade, Daviess, Dekalb, Dent, Douglas (Missouri), Dunklin, Franklin, Gasconade, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison (Missouri), Henry, Hickory, Holt, Howell, Iron, Jackson (Missouri), Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Laclede, Lafayette (Missouri), Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Linn, Livingston, Macon (Missouri), Madison, Maries, Marion, Mcdonald, Mercer, Miller (Missouri), Mississippi, Moniteau, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, New Madrid (Missouri), Newton, Nodaway, Oregon, Osage, Ozark, Pemiscot (Missouri), Perry, Pettis, Phelps, Pike, Platte, Pulaski (Missouri), Putnam, Ralls, Randolph, Ray, Reynolds, Ripley (Missouri), Saline, Schuyler, Scotland, Scott, Shannon, Shelby (Missouri), St. Charles, St. Clair, Ste. Genevieve, St. Francois, St. Louis, St. Louis (Missouri), Stoddard, Stone, Sullivan, Taney, Texas, Vernon (Missouri), Warren, Washington, Wayne, Worth, Wright.

Missouri counties in the neutral phase (8): Boone, Christian, Cooper, Dallas, Greene, Howard (Missouri), Polk, Webster.

Missouri permitted 18,528 housing units in twelve months; 317,060 Missouri units sit vacant of 2,825,287.

Missouri counties highest on the national opportunity index: Oregon #52 (38.5/100, strong_buy); Sullivan #143 (36.4/100, strong_buy); Holt #363 (34.2/100, overheated) in Missouri; Mcdonald #390 (34.0/100, peak_opportunity); Shannon #403 (33.9/100, peak_opportunity); Crawford #421 (33.8/100, peak_opportunity) in Missouri; Butler #443 (33.7/100, peak_opportunity); Iron #459 (33.6/100, peak_opportunity); Howell #459 (33.6/100, peak_opportunity) in Missouri; Benton #459 (33.6/100, peak_opportunity); St. Francois #459 (33.6/100, peak_opportunity); Scott #522 (33.3/100, peak_opportunity) in Missouri.

How the Missouri county reports are scored: each Missouri report reads its county's foreclosure filings, Missouri tax-lien and tax-deed records, FHA mortgage delinquency in Missouri (ninety-day rate 0.9%, December 2025), the FDIC stress of Missouri lenders (195 chartered in Missouri) and FEMA/NFIP pressure on Missouri (549 NFIP claims, three years), then scores every Missouri ZIP 0-100.

Oregon County leads Missouri on the opportunity index at #52 nationally with 12 scored ZIPs. Every Missouri report is rebuilt monthly from public records; a Missouri county whose data lapses keeps its Missouri page and says so.

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