ZIP 26377 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 26377's composite property-distress score is 20/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Wetzel County, West Virginia. The sharpest non-environmental signals are institutional ownership (54/100), structural risk (44/100), mortgage stress (22/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (22/100). Structurally it carries 44/100, against 7/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (84/100), FEMA disaster exposure (65/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 8.0% year on year, at 57/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 678 people live here, median age 59. Owners hold 90% of homes, renters 10%. On demographic stress specifically, 26377 scores 25/100. There are about 401 housing units across 26377. Roughly 12.9% live below the poverty line. Vacancy runs 14.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $99,000 (2.3× income, relatively affordable). At $50,779, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 26377 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 26377 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 26377 runs hot or quiet, its 20/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 26377 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Wetzel County, West Virginia or nationwide. 26377 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

The 20/100 figure for 26377 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 26377 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.