Wisconsin County Foreclosure & Distress Reports (2026)
One report per county — 72 in Wisconsin — each scored 0-100 from public foreclosure, tax-lien, mortgage and bank-stress records and refreshed monthly. The live county pages sit under the Wisconsin distress hub; insurance pressure is on the Wisconsin home-insurance page.
72 Wisconsin county reports sit in this archive; Wisconsin opportunity phases run 51 weak, 13 early_signal, 4 watchlist; Wisconsin ninety-day delinquency 0.5%; 155 banks chartered in Wisconsin; 24,458 HUD-assisted Wisconsin units.
Wisconsin counties to open first by opportunity rank: Forest (#376, overheated); Sawyer (#537, peak_opportunity); Iron (#571, peak_opportunity) in Wisconsin; Juneau (#584, peak_opportunity); Burnett (#760, watchlist); Lincoln (#760, watchlist).
Wisconsin insurance bands across counties: 30 zero in Wisconsin, 27 low, 15 medium; Wisconsin NFIP claims 665 in three years.
Wisconsin counties in the peak phase (41): Adams, Ashland, Bayfield, Buffalo, Burnett, Calumet (Wisconsin), Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Door, Douglas, Eau Claire (Wisconsin), Forest, Green Lake, Iron, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse (Wisconsin), Lafayette, Langlade, Lincoln, Marquette, Oneida, Outagamie (Wisconsin), Pepin, Pierce, Polk, Price, Richland, Rock (Wisconsin), Rusk, Sawyer, Sheboygan, St. Croix, Taylor, Trempealeau (Wisconsin), Vernon, Vilas, Washburn, Waupaca, Waushara.
Wisconsin counties in the expansion phase (27): Barron, Brown, Dodge, Dunn, Florence, Fond Du Lac (Wisconsin), Grant, Jefferson, Kenosha, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Marathon (Wisconsin), Marinette, Menominee, Milwaukee, Monroe, Oconto, Ozaukee (Wisconsin), Portage, Racine, Sauk, Shawano, Walworth, Washington (Wisconsin), Waukesha, Winnebago, Wood.
Wisconsin counties in the neutral phase (4): Columbia, Dane, Green, Iowa.
Wisconsin permitted 25,801 housing units in twelve months; 299,092 Wisconsin units sit vacant of 2,778,572.
Wisconsin counties highest on the national opportunity index: Forest #376 (34.1/100, overheated); Sawyer #537 (33.2/100, peak_opportunity); Iron #571 (33.0/100, peak_opportunity) in Wisconsin; Juneau #584 (32.9/100, peak_opportunity); Lincoln #760 (32.1/100, watchlist); Burnett #760 (32.1/100, watchlist) in Wisconsin; Washburn #920 (31.5/100, early_signal); Ashland #1,007 (31.1/100, watchlist); Door #1,100 (30.8/100, early_signal) in Wisconsin; Milwaukee #1,131 (30.7/100, watchlist); Menominee #1,211 (30.4/100, early_signal); Bayfield #1,386 (29.8/100, early_signal) in Wisconsin.
How the Wisconsin county reports are scored: each Wisconsin report reads its county's foreclosure filings, Wisconsin tax-lien and tax-deed records, FHA mortgage delinquency in Wisconsin (ninety-day rate 0.5%, December 2025), the FDIC stress of Wisconsin lenders (155 chartered in Wisconsin) and FEMA/NFIP pressure on Wisconsin (665 NFIP claims, three years), then scores every Wisconsin ZIP 0-100.
Forest County leads Wisconsin on the opportunity index at #376 nationally with 11 scored ZIPs. Every Wisconsin report is rebuilt monthly from public records; a Wisconsin county whose data lapses keeps its Wisconsin page and says so.