Rhode Island County Foreclosure & Distress Reports (2026)
One report per county — 5 in Rhode Island — each scored 0-100 from public foreclosure, tax-lien, mortgage and bank-stress records and refreshed monthly. The live county pages sit under the Rhode Island distress hub; insurance pressure is on the Rhode Island home-insurance page.
5 Rhode Island county reports sit in this archive; Rhode Island opportunity phases run 3 weak, 2 early_signal; Rhode Island ninety-day delinquency 0.9%; 5 banks chartered in Rhode Island; 15,543 HUD-assisted Rhode Island units.
Rhode Island counties to open first by opportunity rank: Washington (#940, early_signal); Newport (#1,578, early_signal); Kent (#2,680, weak) in Rhode Island; Providence (#2,812, weak); Bristol (#2,888, weak).
Rhode Island insurance bands across counties: 3 medium in Rhode Island, 1 low, 1 high; Rhode Island NFIP claims 180 in three years.
Rhode Island counties in the peak phase (5): Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington.
Rhode Island permitted 2,113 housing units in twelve months; 44,362 Rhode Island units sit vacant of 485,932.
Rhode Island counties highest on the national opportunity index: Washington #940 (31.4/100, early_signal); Newport #1,578 (29.1/100, early_signal); Kent #2,680 (25.0/100, weak) in Rhode Island; Providence #2,812 (24.4/100, weak); Bristol #2,888 (23.9/100, weak).
How the Rhode Island county reports are scored: each Rhode Island report reads its county's foreclosure filings, Rhode Island tax-lien and tax-deed records, FHA mortgage delinquency in Rhode Island (ninety-day rate 0.9%, December 2025), the FDIC stress of Rhode Island lenders (5 chartered in Rhode Island) and FEMA/NFIP pressure on Rhode Island (180 NFIP claims, three years), then scores every Rhode Island ZIP 0-100.
Washington County leads Rhode Island on the opportunity index at #940 nationally with 20 scored ZIPs. Every Rhode Island report is rebuilt monthly from public records; a Rhode Island county whose data lapses keeps its Rhode Island page and says so.