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Conforming Limits

FHFA data for every county, not just the metro markets.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency publishes the national conforming loan limits that determine what loans can be purchased by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. DotGovSource pairs those FHFA limits with the HUD FHA ceilings for each county so you can understand how they align.

CY2026 Showing the 2026 FHFA dataset, effective 2026-01-01. Figures change only when FHFA publishes a new file.

Average conforming limit

$848,427

Highest limit

$1,299,500 · Kalawao County, Hawaii

Largest FHFA vs FHA gap

$707,838 · Aleutians East Borough, Alaska

Top state ceilings

States with the highest conforming limits illustrate where FHFA has jurisdiction to support high-cost markets.

Select your state

Each state hub links to the full county atlas with FHA + conforming data.

How the limits are built

FHFA publishes `conforming_limits.xlsx` each year containing the county-level ceilings. The build script in `scripts/build_master_db.py` merges those limits with HUD FHA datasets so every state and county profile shows both ceilings with their source citations.

Drop the latest FHFA Excel file into raw_data/conforming_limits.xlsx and rerunnpm run build (after npm run generate:inflation if you also refreshed CPI data) to propagate new limits across the site.

Government sources

  • Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Conforming Loan Limits by County (HERA-based)

    Dataset year
    2026 (CY2026)
    Effective
    January 1, 2026
    Retrieved
    December 12, 2025

    Fields used: FIPS State Code; FIPS County Code; County Name; State; CBSA Number; One-Unit Limit; Two-Unit Limit; Three-Unit Limit; Four-Unit Limit

  • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) FHA Single Family Forward Mortgage Limits

    Dataset year
    2026 (CY2026)
    Effective
    January 1, 2026
    Retrieved
    December 12, 2025

    Fields used: cols 073-079: one-unit forward mortgage limit; cols 080-086: two-unit forward mortgage limit; cols 087-093: three-unit forward mortgage limit; cols 094-100: four-unit forward mortgage limit; cols 101-102: state postal code; cols 103-105: county FIPS code; cols 000-009: CBSA/metro code (9999900000 = non-metro)