ZIP 98817 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 98817 (Chelan County, Washington) at a moderate 37/100 for overall property distress. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (82/100), construction/permit lag (76/100), institutional ownership (69/100). Latent structural risk is 82/100 while live distress already moving reads 0/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), FEMA disaster exposure (91/100), climate & FEMA risk (90/100).

Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values fell 2.6% over the trailing year, 2.6% off the recent peak, at 65/100 phase confidence. Falling values surface more motivated sellers and below-market exits.

About 141 people live here, median age 26. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 16/100. Roughly 0.0% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 12% bachelor's-or-above. There are about 77 housing units across 98817. Vacancy runs 0.0%. At $32,143, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 75% of housing is owner-occupied.

Taken together, 98817 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 98817 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Whether 98817 runs hot or quiet, its 37/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 98817 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Chelan County, Washington or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98817, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

98817's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. In workflow terms, 98817 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.