States / Wyoming

23 counties · median score 14

Crawl space moisture in Wyoming

Most of Wyoming drains well: only 0 of 23 counties score high or elevated, and the median is 14. Big Horn County is the exception at 18; crawl-space moisture problems here usually come from grading, gutters and plumbing rather than the soil itself.

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  1. 1Wettest county Big Horn County
  2. 2High or elevated 0 of 23
  3. 3Median score 14
  4. 4Driest county Goshen County
Big Horn18Albany16Hot Springs16Park16Crook15Sheridan15Teton15Uinta15Washakie15Johnson14Sublette14Weston14Carbon12Converse12Lincoln12
Soil moisture score (0–100) for the 15 highest of 23 counties in Wyoming, bars to scale. Score from USDA NRCS drainage class, hydrologic group, water-table depth and flooding; see methodology.
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Wyoming: counties by soil moisture tier, columns to scale.

Wyoming's soil, taken as a whole

Across the 49,114,537 acres mapped in these 23 counties, 2% of soil with a drainage class is somewhat poorly, poorly or very poorly drained, and 4% of acres report a seasonal water table within about two metres. That is a dry figure; wet soils here are confined to river bottoms and wetlands. 23 of the 23 counties have mapped soils subject to occasional or frequent flooding.

Drainage classShare of mapped acres
Excessively drained2.1%
Somewhat excessively drained1.4%
Well drained93.2%
Moderately well drained1%
Somewhat poorly drained1.3%
Poorly drained0.7%
Very poorly drained0.4%

Radon. By EPA zone, 21 Wyoming counties here are zone 1 (highest potential), 2 zone 2 and 0 zone 3. With most of the state in zone 1, any crawl-space sealing project here should start with a radon test and be designed to take a radon fan.

Every Wyoming county

Sorted wettest first. High and elevated counties link to their own page with the full soil breakdown.

Big Horn County 18Albany County 16Hot Springs County 16Park County 16Crook County 15Sheridan County 15Teton County 15Uinta County 15Washakie County 15Johnson County 14Sublette County 14Weston County 14Carbon County 12Converse County 12Lincoln County 12Sweetwater County 12Fremont County 11Natrona County 11Niobrara County 10Campbell County 9Platte County 9Laramie County 7Goshen County 6

What drives the Wyoming numbers

The wettest county, Big Horn County, is 95% well drained by dominant condition, with a seasonal water table averaging 1.8 ft below grade across the 9% of acres that report one, and sits in EPA radon zone 1. The driest, Goshen County, is 70% well drained. No Wyoming county reaches the high tier.

The score is a guide to the soil, not to a house: a well-graded lot with working gutters in a high county can have a dry crawl space, and a bad downspout can flood one in a low county. The R408 calculator sizes venting or encapsulation for any footprint.

Sources: USDA NRCS SSURGO via Soil Data Access (muaggatt: drclassdcd, hydgrpdcd, flodfreqdcd, pondfreqprs, wtdepannmin), acreage-weighted; EPA Map of Radon Zones, county table (June 2024 JSON). Checked 2026-10-23.