Lewis County, WV: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Every ZIP in Lewis County, West Virginia carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Lender pressure in Lewis County registers 21/100 — a contained bank-stress headwind. ZIP-level distress ranges from 27/100 at the top down to 11/100. Coverage runs to 11 ZIPs across Lewis County, a low 19/100 average.

In its expansion phase, Lewis County home prices rose 8.0% across the last year, at 57/100 phase confidence. Even as prices climb, the laggards keep building where the composite stays elevated.

Through Lewis County's +8.0% YoY climb (57/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits — and a rising tide cleans up those exits. Lender stress at 21/100 (contained) points the search to owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 26378 (27/100), ZIP 26201 (26/100), ZIP 26343 (26/100), ZIP 26338 (18/100), ZIP 26372 (18/100), ZIP 26384 (18/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Other tracked Lewis County ZIPs include 26452, 26321, 26447, 26376, 26412.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Lewis County show household income averaging about $53,904, below the national median, poverty running near 16.8%, typical home values near $183,411, 81% owner-occupancy, a 22.7% vacancy rate, residents with a median age around 45.4. These fundamentals drive where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

All in at 19/100 over 11 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Lewis County parcel's owner, address and APN, score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity estimate.

Whether Lewis County, West Virginia carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Lewis County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Scores in Lewis County, West Virginia exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. The Lewis County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

The ZIP breakdown for Lewis County leads with 26378 (27/100), 26201 (26/100), 26343 (26/100), 26338 (18/100), 26372 (18/100), 26384 (18/100). DLRadar also scores 26452, 26321, 26447, 26376, 26412 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.

Under Lewis County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.