Washington Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

DLRadar grades property distress across all of Washington from verifiable public records alone. Washington leans peak overall, with average prices up 0.8% YoY. Phase-wise, Washington counties run 32 peak, 6 contraction, 1 neutral. Washington breaks into 39 scored counties spanning 605 ZIPs, averaging 28/100.

Leading Washington on distress: Pacific County, Clallam County, Jefferson County, Walla Walla County, Skamania County — each with its own report.

The most-distressed Washington ZIP codes are 98801 (37/100), 98811 (37/100), 98815 (37/100), 98816 (37/100), 98817 (37/100).

County by county, here is how market phase and distress break down across Washington.

Adams County is in its peak phase, homes +0.4% YoY, a 50/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Asotin County as neutral — homes +4.6% YoY, headwind 18/100. In Benton County, peak: homes +1.6% YoY, lender pressure 27/100. Chelan County is in its contraction phase, a 2.6% slide, 2.6% below peak, headwind 48/100. Clallam County is in its peak phase, appreciation near 0.4%, headwind 89/100. Clark County is peak (appreciation near 1.0%, a 52/100 lender reading). Columbia County reads peak — homes +1.2% YoY, headwind 30/100.

In Cowlitz County, peak: up 2.4% on the year, bank stress 44/100. Douglas County — contraction, a 2.6% slide, 2.6% below peak, headwind 48/100. In Ferry County, peak: prices up 1.2%, a 62/100 lender reading. Franklin County is in its peak phase, homes +1.6% YoY. Garfield County — peak, appreciation near 1.2%. Grant County sits in peak, up 0.4% on the year, lender pressure 55/100. Grays Harbor County is peak (prices up 0.4%, headwind 39/100).

DLRadar reads Island County as peak — prices up 0.4%, lender pressure 22/100. Jefferson County: peak, homes +0.4% YoY, headwind 72/100. King County is peak (prices up 0.4%, lender pressure 46/100). Kitsap County is contraction (values about even, 1.2% below peak, a 62/100 lender reading). Kittitas County reads peak — homes +0.4% YoY, bank stress 39/100. Klickitat County — peak, up 1.2% on the year, lender pressure 55/100. Lewis County: peak, homes +0.4% YoY, a 37/100 lender reading.

Lincoln County — peak, appreciation near 1.2%, headwind 51/100. DLRadar reads Mason County as peak — up 0.4% on the year, bank stress 62/100. Okanogan County reads peak — prices up 1.2%, lender pressure 50/100. DLRadar reads Pacific County as peak — homes +1.2% YoY, a 93/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Pend Oreille County as peak — appreciation near 1.2%, headwind 49/100. Pierce County is peak (appreciation near 0.4%, lender pressure 48/100). In San Juan County, peak: values rising 1.2%, bank stress 25/100.

Skagit County: peak, up 2.1% on the year, headwind 17/100. In Skamania County, peak: prices up 1.0%, bank stress 64/100. Snohomish County: peak, appreciation near 0.4%, bank stress 44/100. Spokane County: contraction, values off 0.5%, headwind 51/100. Stevens County — contraction, homes -0.5% YoY, bank stress 60/100. Thurston County reads peak — values rising 2.1%, bank stress 50/100. DLRadar reads Wahkiakum County as peak — values rising 1.2%, lender pressure 44/100.

Walla Walla County: peak, up 1.2% on the year, 1.7% off peak, a 71/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Whatcom County as contraction — prices flat, a 51/100 lender reading. Whitman County: peak, homes +0.4% YoY, lender pressure 37/100. Yakima County reads peak — values rising 2.0%, headwind 40/100.

DLRadar scores Washington the same way it scores every state: deterministic public-record signals — foreclosure, mortgage, tax, lien, bank and climate — combined into one 0–100 distress reading per area. Since Washington runs peak overall, the edge is in the divergence — the counties and ZIPs that don't match the headline.

Pick a Washington county to go deeper, or jump into a specific ZIP's distress profile. Unlock Washington to see every distressed parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a per-parcel score, bank exposure and an exit read.

However concentrated Washington's distress turns out to be, the whole state runs through one nationwide scoring engine — foreclosure, tax, lien, mortgage and bank-stress signals — so a Washington county can be weighed against any market in the country on equal footing. Nothing is interpolated: Washington signals trace to public federal and county records, and re-scores as new records post.

County by county, the highest-distress counties include Pacific County, Clallam County, Jefferson County, Walla Walla County, Skamania County , and at ZIP level 98801 (37/100), 98811 (37/100), 98815 (37/100), 98816 (37/100), 98817 (37/100) score highest.

The Washington numbers are not single measures but composites, combining foreclosure activity, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind so two markets with the same total can differ sharply underneath.

However large or small Washington is, the acquisition path holds: start at the county with the sharpest reading, drill to its highest-scoring ZIPs, then to the individual parcels behind those scores , then the platform takes it from signal to closed acquisition.

Because the model is deterministic, any Washington reading can be reconciled against its source documents — foreclosure dockets, tax rolls, recorded liens, FHFA price series and FDIC call reports — which is what makes the Washington data defensible to cite.