Just a few years ago (2015), Wyoming’s foreclosure rate was extremely low, ranking 43rd in the U.S.; last month it ranked 29th. (That was an 18% decrease from the previous month, and a 12% decrease from the same time last year.) Wyoming did not follow the national trends through the mortgage crisis which began in 2007. When national foreclosure filings dropped to a nine-year low in 2015, foreclosures began increasing in Wyoming and other energy producing states, as oil prices fell.