Fergus County, MT: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Fergus County, Montana is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. Lender pressure in Fergus County registers 46/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 17 to 22 out of 100. DLRadar scores 11 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 21/100.

In its peak phase, Fergus County home prices rose 2.2% across the last year (phase confidence 21/100). This late in the run, blanket buying underperforms as the ZIP scores below show.

With Fergus County flat at +2.2% YoY (21/100 confidence), selectivity rules well beyond the county average. A mid-cycle 46/100 lender reading implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Top distress by ZIP runs 59430 (22/100), 59441 (22/100), 59451 (22/100), 59457 (22/100), 59464 (22/100), 59471 (22/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Further scored ZIPs: 59489, 59032, 59424, 59453, 59418.

On the housing-and-income side, Fergus County's tracked footprint come in at 12.8% of households below the poverty line, home values averaging roughly $212,267, below the US, incomes around $58,843, an owner-occupied share of 69%, 22.9% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 43.2. Numbers like these frame who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

All in at 21/100 over 11 ZIPs, Fergus County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. Unlock Fergus County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

Read Fergus County, Montana as a heat map for effort — the county's low composite of 21/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. Every Fergus County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Fergus County are 59430 (22/100), 59441 (22/100), 59451 (22/100), 59457 (22/100), 59464 (22/100), 59471 (22/100). DLRadar also scores 59489, 59032, 59424, 59453, 59418 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 Fergus 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.