Bear Lake County, ID: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

DLRadar tracks property distress across Bear Lake County, Idaho using verifiable public-record signals alone. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 86/100 (elevated). Coverage runs to 10 ZIPs across Bear Lake County, a minimal 5/100 average. ZIP-level distress ranges from 8/100 at the top down to 4/100.

Currently peak, Bear Lake County saw prices rise 1.5% year over year, a 31/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, the opportunity narrows with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

With Bear Lake County flat at +1.5% YoY (31/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Bank stress at 86/100 is a buyer tailwind: banks under pressure move REO faster.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 83276 (8/100), ZIP 83254 (5/100), ZIP 83220 (4/100), ZIP 83223 (4/100), ZIP 83233 (4/100), ZIP 83238 (4/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Further scored ZIPs: 83239, 83261, 83272, 83287.

Underneath the scores, the Bear Lake County ZIPs on file show a median household income near $64,647 (below the US norm), a 32.7% vacancy rate, 91% owner-occupancy, median home values around $356,200 (near the national figure), a 6.6% poverty rate, residents with a median age around 42.7. These fundamentals set up the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

At 5/100 composite over 10 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Bear Lake County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

The distress read for Bear Lake County, Idaho is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Bear Lake County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

The way to work Bear Lake County, Idaho is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 8/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Bear Lake County with undifferentiated outreach. Provenance for Bear Lake County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Bear Lake County are 83276 (8/100), 83254 (5/100), 83220 (4/100), 83223 (4/100), 83233 (4/100), 83238 (4/100). DLRadar also scores 83239, 83261, 83272, 83287 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Bear Lake County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.