ZIP 78842 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 78842 in Val Verde County, Texas comes in at 28, a low composite-distress reading. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100), climate & FEMA risk (71/100), FEMA disaster exposure (68/100). On the structural side it scores 63/100, with 0/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (54/100), construction/permit lag (51/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.9% over the trailing year, at 9/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

There are about 4 housing units across 78842.

On balance 78842 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Parcel-level detail for 78842 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.

Big metro or rural, 78842 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 28/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Val Verde County, Texas and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 78842 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

78842's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 78842 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.