Lemhi County, ID: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Across Lemhi County, Idaho, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 14/100 at the top down to 13/100. Lender pressure in Lemhi County registers 91/100 — a elevated bank-stress headwind. There are 11 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 13/100).

Currently peak, Lemhi County saw prices rise 1.5% year over year (phase confidence 31/100). With values leveling off, the average masks the outliers with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Lemhi County's topped-out +1.5% YoY (31/100 confidence) means the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. An elevated 91/100 reading favors patient capital: banks under pressure move REO faster.

By composite, 83235 (14/100), 83226 (13/100), 83253 (13/100), 83462 (13/100), 83463 (13/100), 83464 (13/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Further scored ZIPs: 83465, 83466, 83467, 83468, 83469.

Profile-wise, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Lemhi County report a 47.3% vacancy rate, a median age of 55.3, 87% of homes owner-occupied, a 13.9% poverty rate, median home values around $373,075 (near the national figure), household income averaging about $52,577, below the national median. Numbers like these frame the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

At 13/100 composite over 11 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Lemhi County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

No county is too small to score: Lemhi County, Idaho runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Lemhi County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Idaho.

For anyone buying in Lemhi County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 14/100. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Lemhi County data is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Lemhi County leads with 83235 (14/100), 83226 (13/100), 83253 (13/100), 83462 (13/100), 83463 (13/100), 83464 (13/100). DLRadar also scores 83465, 83466, 83467, 83468, 83469 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Lemhi 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.