Missouri Home-Insurance Distress by County

Home-insurance distress across Missouri is moderate but rising in pockets, with an average county insurance-distress score of 30/100 — the 21st-highest of the 52 states and territories DLRadar scores. DLRadar tracks all 115 Missouri counties for the rising premiums, non-renewals and carrier pullback that turn ordinary owners into motivated sellers, often well before any foreclosure filing appears.

20 of Missouri's 115 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 31/100 and average NFIP flood-claim stress of 34/100. These are the exposures carriers price against and increasingly decline to renew, and they are why premiums in Missouri keep climbing faster than incomes.

Over the trailing three years, Missouri counties recorded 31,978 NFIP flood claims totaling $1,199,845,720 paid — the loss history that insurers convert directly into higher premiums and thinner coverage the following renewal cycle.

The sharpest pressure concentrates in Howell County (94/100, #39 nationally) and Scott County. The county-by-county breakdown below ranks every Missouri 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 Missouri you can find the owners whose breaking point is the insurance bill, before they list.