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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Prairie County, Montana using verifiable public-record signals alone. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 2 to 16 out of 100. On bank and credit headwind, Prairie County scores 21/100. Coverage runs to 7 ZIPs across Prairie County, a minimal 11/100 average.

In its peak phase, Prairie County home prices rose 2.2% across the last year, at 21/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, the opportunity narrows as the ZIP scores below show.

Prairie County's topped-out +2.2% YoY (21/100 confidence) means the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Lender stress at 21/100 (contained) puts the live signals on tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 59301 (16/100), ZIP 59336 (15/100), ZIP 59214 (11/100), ZIP 59349 (11/100), ZIP 59339 (10/100), ZIP 59330 (9/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Other tracked Prairie County ZIPs include 59326.

By the numbers, Prairie County's tracked footprint run home values averaging roughly $228,971, below the US, 77% owner-occupancy, vacancy near 22.9%, 13.8% of households below the poverty line, residents with a median age around 46.7, incomes around $65,971. Income, equity and tenure like these signal the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Prairie County, Montana's 11/100 average over 7 ZIPs says Prairie County is a screen-by-ZIP market — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Prairie County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

Because Prairie County, Montana is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Prairie County against neighboring markets or the rest of Montana on equal footing.

The way to work Prairie County, Montana is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 16/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Prairie County with undifferentiated outreach. What supports the Prairie County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Prairie County leads with 59301 (16/100), 59336 (15/100), 59214 (11/100), 59349 (11/100), 59339 (10/100), 59330 (9/100). DLRadar also scores 59326 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 Prairie 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.