States without Recent Bank Failures

It appears the FDIC has taken today off for Good Friday. As of 9:30pm CDT there have been no bank failures. Since there were no bank closures, I thought it would be interesting (and in the spirit of the holidays) to review the states that have not experienced any bank failures since the financial crisis began.

I remember the days when a bank failure was rare. It wasn't too long ago. There were two years in a row (2005 and 2006) in which no bank failed. In 2007 there were only three bank failures. The most notable one was NetBank. The financial crisis began in 2008, and the bank failures picked up with 25 failures in 2008 and 140 in 2009. So far this year there have been 41 closures.

In this period since 2007, there have been a total of 209 bank failures. Banks have failed in most states. Instead of showing the states that have been hit the hardest, I thought it would be interesting to review the states that have not had any bank failures. As you might expect, most of these states are small without many bank headquarters. So that's a major reason why several of these states haven't seen recent bank failures. However, there are a few states that are sizable. Both Massachusetts and Tennessee have over 6 million residents and over 100 banks.

I included both a map of the bank-failure-free states and a table. In the table, I included the state population, the number of banks with headquarters in the state and the number of public enforcement actions that have been issued to banks in the state.

References:

• FDIC list of failed banks
• NCUA list of closed credit unions
• Latest FDIC info on deposit insurance
• My bank failure review posts
• Review of the 2009 bank and credit union failures
• 10 Lessons from the 2008 bank failures
• Review of the 2008 credit union liquidations