Six of Wyoming's 27 rural hospitals screen at risk of closing, the median rural drive to deliver a baby is 63 minutes, a third of state roads are in poor condition — and the nation's energy state is rebuilding its grid mid-transition.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Every measure carries its value, class, geography, year, definition, context and source. Wyoming's profile is a frontier profile: almost no congestion, vast distances to care, tiny water and hospital systems that cannot spread fixed costs, and infrastructure built for extraction and through-freight now aging on a thin tax base. The scores run highest where the state's smallness itself is the risk — hospitals, housing ratios and roads.
Three honesty notes are printed rather than smoothed over. Food: Wyoming's most recent verifiable state ratios are Map the Meal Gap 2024 (2022 data) — one in seven people, one in five children — published by the Food Bank of Wyoming; Feeding America's 2025-edition Wyoming ratios were not published in a form we could source, so no newer figure is printed. Power: the two coal-share measures are two instruments two years apart (EIA 2024: 60%; University of Wyoming, most recent: ≈47%), printed side by side to show the speed of the transition, never averaged. Dams: only the high-hazard count (106) is verified; Wyoming's ASCE card does not grade dams and no citable poor-condition share exists, so none is printed.
Hospitals needs care in the opposite direction from the usual story: CHQPR screens 6 of 27 rural hospitals at risk and 3 at immediate risk, but Wyoming has had zero rural hospital closures since 2015 — the number is printed as a measure, and the maternity figures (63-minute median drive; 13 of 27 hospitals without L&D) carry the severity. Traffic is a single statewide Reason Foundation measure because TTI publishes no Wyoming metro. Broadband uses the Wyoming Broadband Office's Final Proposal figures of record (38,558 locations; $198,430,561 awarded).