Iowa Home-Insurance Distress by County

Home-insurance distress across Iowa is below the national average, with an average county insurance-distress score of 26/100 — the 28th-highest of the 52 states and territories DLRadar scores. DLRadar tracks all 99 Iowa counties for the rising premiums, non-renewals and carrier pullback that turn ordinary owners into motivated sellers, often well before any foreclosure filing appears.

4 of Iowa's 99 counties carry a severe insurance-distress score of 70 or higher — the markets where coverage is hardest to keep and where carrying cost, not the mortgage, is the trigger that pushes a homeowner to sell.

Statewide, the pressure is driven by an average FEMA hazard score of 23/100 and average NFIP flood-claim stress of 33/100. These are the exposures carriers price against and increasingly decline to renew, and they are why premiums in Iowa keep climbing faster than incomes.

Over the trailing three years, Iowa counties recorded 8,935 NFIP flood claims totaling $461,798,088 paid — the loss history that insurers convert directly into higher premiums and thinner coverage the following renewal cycle.

The sharpest pressure concentrates in Clay County (73/100, #537 nationally) and Cherokee County. The county-by-county breakdown below ranks every Iowa market by insurance distress, each linking to its full report.

DLRadar scores insurance distress monthly for every U.S. county from FEMA, NFIP and carrier-pressure data, then ties it to parcel-level foreclosure, tax-lien and ownership signals — so in Iowa you can find the owners whose breaking point is the insurance bill, before they list.