ZIP 26159 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 26159 (Wetzel County, West Virginia) at a low 20/100 for overall property distress. The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (54/100), structural risk (45/100), mortgage stress (22/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (22/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), FEMA disaster exposure (65/100). Structural exposure scores 45 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 8.0% over the trailing year (phase confidence 57/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Around 9% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 1,128 housing units. At $54,113, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 22/100. 11.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 79% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 14.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 2,523 residents call 26159 home, typically aged 40. A median home runs $104,100 here, or 1.9 times local income.

Taken together, 26159 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 26159 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The number is not local guesswork: 26159's 20/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 26159 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

26159's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 26159 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.