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

Lewis County, WV, West Virginia: 11 ZIP codes scored, Lewis County, WV averaging 20/100 (low, Lewis, WV), from 11 to 27. Lewis County, WV is in its expansion phase (Lewis, WV confidence 57/100): Lewis, WV home prices up 8.0% (Lewis, WV) over twelve months. Lewis County, WV lender headwind: 21/100.

Highest-scoring Lewis County, WV ZIPs: 26378 (27/100), 26201 (24/100), 26343 (24/100), 26372 (21/100), 26338 (20/100), 26452 (20/100). Also scored in Lewis County, WV: 26321, 26384, 26447, 26412, 26376.

Across Lewis County, WV's scored ZIPs: median home value $183,411, household income $53,904, 22.7% vacancy, 16.8% poverty, 81% owner-occupied, median age 45.4.

Lewis County, WV insurance distress 66/100 (#744 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Lewis, WV; 4 federal disaster declarations in Lewis County, WV since 2023 (2 flood); 47 Lewis, WV NFIP flood claims, $1.1M paid; Lewis, WV construction distress 28/100.

3 banks with 4 branches lend in Lewis County, WV; Lewis, WV weighted bank stress 53/100, highest 63/100 in Lewis, WV.

Lewis County, WV unemployment 4.6% (Lewis, WV -1.6 pts, six months); 4 new housing units permitted in Lewis County, WV over twelve months, Lewis, WV up 33% from 3; Lewis, WV home prices +11.4% a year (Lewis, WV) over three years.

8,219 housing units in Lewis County, WV; 2,034 Lewis, WV renter households; 32% of Lewis, WV renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Lewis, WV) half or more.

Lewis County, WV ranks #760 nationally on the opportunity index (Lewis, WV, among all ranked counties); Lewis, WV scores 32.1/100 and Lewis, WV sits #15 inside West Virginia. Lewis, WV is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Lewis, WV's primary driver is vacancy, Lewis, WV second driver bank institutional; Lewis, WV moved up 648 places. 4 short-sale listings across Lewis, WV; 90 days on market observed in Lewis, WV; 14.7% vacancy over 11 Lewis, WV ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Lewis County, WV. The non-metro area reading for Lewis, WV: 1.2% ninety-plus days late; Lewis, WV's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.9% (Lewis, WV, December 2025 data); West Virginia overall 1.1%.

Lewis County, WV has 1 watched bank; 1 Lewis, WV bank sits in an elevated band. Lewis, WV footprints: Citizens Bank Of Weston (2 branches, stress 56) in Lewis, WV.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Lewis County, WV with 180 units; 178 Lewis, WV units are assisted, 2 Lewis, WV properties under project-based Section 8.

1,252 of the 8,219 housing units in Lewis, WV sit vacant. Lewis County, WV permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Lewis, WV's one-to-four unit structures added 4 units in Lewis County, WV.