Property State Select State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware D.C. Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Home Description Single Family Multi-Family Condominium Townhouse Mobile Home Manufactured Home Select Your Credit Profile Excellent Good Fair Needs Improvement Poor Type of Loan Select One Home Refinance Home Purchase Home Equity Debt Consolidation

Foreclosures: America's 100 Most Affected Counties

Driven by risky, sub prime mortgages, 'creative' lending, and adjustable rate mortgages that can suddenly cripple a homeowner's ability to pay, America is facing an epidemic of mortgage foreclosures. The problem is rapidly spreading across the country but some areas of the country are much more impacted than others. Nationwide, a total of 179,599 foreclosure filings were reported nationwide in July. By August the number had risen to 243,947. The following counties have the highest percentage of households facing foreclosure.  Click on the individual counties below for details.