How much notice does a landlord have to give before filing an eviction for unpaid rent in Wyoming?

3 days. The document is a notice to QUIT, not a pay-or-quit notice — no Wyoming statute gives the tenant a right to cure by paying. One written notice to leave, served at least three days before the action is commenced, covers every ground including nonpayment.

How much notice is required to evict for a lease violation in Wyoming?

3 days. There is no cure window anywhere in the eviction article. The same written notice to quit, served at least three days before the action, is all a lease violation requires, and the termination of the tenancy itself rides the lease's own clause.

How long does an eviction take in Wyoming?

About 9 to 11 days from the rent due date to lockout at the absolute statutory floor, or about 6 to 8 days if the notice to quit is served during the three-day arrears window rather than after it.

How long does a tenant have to appeal an eviction judgment in Wyoming?

No eviction-specific deadline — the standard civil appeal window applies (see notes).

Can a landlord change the locks or shut off utilities instead of going to court in Wyoming?

No statute squarely on point — the notes explain what this state's law does and does not address. No Wyoming statute prohibits a landlord from changing the locks, removing a tenant's property before judgment, or shutting off utilities — and none permits it either. Wyoming never adopted the URLTA self-help ban.

What is the eviction process and timeline in Wyoming?

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To evict a tenant in Wyoming, serve one written notice to quit - a demand that the tenant leave the premises, served at least three days before suit under W.S. 1-21-1003 - then file a forcible entry and detainer action in the circuit court, which has exclusive jurisdiction.

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For nonpayment, W.S. 1-21-1002(a)(i) separately requires the rent to be at least three days past due before proceedings may be brought. Wyoming's three-day notice is a notice to quit, not a pay-or-quit notice: no statute gives the tenant a right to cure by paying or by fixing a lease violation, and the same three-day notice covers nonpayment, holdover and lease violations alike. There is no statutory notice period for ending a month-to-month or no-cause tenancy - W.S. 34-2-128 abolishes tenancies arising by implication except a tenancy by sufferance, so termination rides the lease's own terms and only the three-day pre-suit notice is fixed by statute. The summons must be served between three and twelve days before the trial date the judge sets (W.S. 1-21-1004); the tenant is not required to file a written answer, and if the tenant never appears the court still tries the case and must dismiss unless the complaint is sustained by proof (W.S. 1-21-1005, 1-21-1006). After a judgment of restitution the court issues a writ of restitution on the landlord's request with no waiting period, and the officer must execute it within two days of receiving it, Sundays excepted (W.S. 1-21-1012, 1-21-1013); the sheriff may then remove the tenant's possessions and bar reentry without further court action (W.S. 1-21-1211(a)). A tenant who appeals must post a bond within forty-eight hours of judgment, Sundays excepted, to stop the writ (W.S. 1-21-1014(b)). No Wyoming statute bars a landlord from a peaceable lockout or a utility shutoff.

Wyoming eviction process at a glance

Nonpayment notice (pay-or-quit)	3 days
Nonpayment notice rules (day counting, cure rights, service)	The document is a notice to QUIT, not a pay-or-quit notice — no Wyoming statute gives the tenant a right to cure by paying. One written notice to leave, served at least three days before the action is commenced, covers every ground including nonpayment. W.S. 1-21-1003 ("Notice to quit premises required"): "The party desiring to commence an action for forcible entry or detainer must notify the adverse party to leave the premises involved. The notice shall be served at least three (3) days before commencing the action, by leaving a written copy with the defendant or at his usual place of abode or business if he cannot be found." No statute prescribes notice content beyond the demand to leave. Service is personal delivery of a written copy, or substituted delivery at the usual place of abode or business only "if he cannot be found"; no mailing, posting, email or certified-mail option is authorized and no proof-of-service form is prescribed. Separate arrears precondition, additive to the notice: W.S. 1-21-1002(a)(i) allows forcible entry and detainer "Against tenants holding over their terms or after a failure to pay rent for three (3) days after it is due," so rent must be at least three days past due when proceedings are had. The statutes do not say whether the 3-day notice may be served during that 3-day arrears window or only after it closes - on the concurrent reading the earliest filing is about day 4 after the due date, on the sequential reading about day 6; both are carried into the uncontested timeline shown here. Day unit: 1-21-1003 says only "days." Wyoming has NO computation-of-time statute (nothing in Title 8), and the one rule that would supply the method is expressly inapplicable - W.R.C.P. 6(a) excludes the first day and rolls a Saturday/Sunday/legal-holiday last day forward, but W.R.C.P.C.C. Rule 2(c) provides that "neither these Rules nor the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure shall govern proceedings initiated in circuit courts pursuant to ... the forceable entry and detainer jurisdiction of the circuit courts." The figures here are counted as plain calendar days; the unit is genuinely unresolved by statute. Note the contrast with the two FED periods the legislature did qualify - 1-21-1013 (writ execution) and 1-21-1014(b) (appeal bond) both say "Sundays excepted," which drops Sunday but counts Saturday. No grace period, late-fee notice, rent escrow, mediation, registration or pre-filing certification exists anywhere in the scheme.
Lease-violation notice period	3 days
Lease-violation notice rules (cure vs. termination)	There is no cure window anywhere in the eviction article. The same written notice to quit, served at least three days before the action, is all a lease violation requires, and the termination of the tenancy itself rides the lease's own clause. SINGLE-NUMBER STATUTE - Wyoming is not URLTA-derived, so there is no "terminate in X days if not remedied in Y" pairing. The one figure is the 3 days in W.S. 1-21-1003, and that is what is shown here: "The notice shall be served at least three (3) days before commencing the action." There is no separate statutory termination date and no separate filing-day offset; the notice tells the tenant to leave and the landlord may sue three days later. Because 1-21-1003 phrases the period as an interval between service and commencement rather than as a termination date, the 3 shown here is the notice's length, not a filing-day offset stacked on some other period. Statutory grounds are narrow: W.S. 1-21-1002(a)(vi) reaches renters "in violation of any terms imposed under W.S. 1-21-1204 or 1-21-1205" - i.e. the renter duties of 1-21-1204(a) (keep the unit clean and safe and not unreasonably burden common areas; dispose of garbage safely; maintain plumbing fixtures; use facilities reasonably; not increase occupancy above the number in the rental agreement without written permission; "Be current on all payments required by the rental agreement"; "Comply with all lawful requirements of the rental agreement"; and remove property and clean at termination) and the prohibited acts of 1-21-1205(a) (intentional or negligent destruction, defacement, damage, impairment or removal of any part of the unit; interference with "another person's peaceful enjoyment of the residential property"; unreasonably denying the owner access for repairs, inspection or showing). 1-21-1204(a)(vii) folds "all lawful requirements of the rental agreement" into the statutory duties, so an ordinary contractual breach is reachable - but the TERMINATION of the tenancy still rides the lease's own clause; what the statute supplies is the 3-day pre-suit notice, not the termination. Nothing escalates for repeat violations. No materiality threshold applies to the notice itself, though W.S. 1-21-1202(c) provides that "This article does not apply to breakage, malfunctions or other conditions which do not materially affect the physical health or safety of the ordinary renter," and 1-21-1202(d) lets any duty in the article be reassigned or modified "by explicit written agreement signed by the parties."
Unconditional-quit grounds	There is no separate unconditional-quit or fast-track ground - and conversely every Wyoming eviction notice is unconditional. W.S. 1-21-1003's notice to quit demands that the tenant "leave the premises involved" and no statute confers a right to cure or reinstate, so the same 3-day notice serves nonpayment, holdover and lease violation alike. Wyoming has no illegal-activity, drug-activity, criminal-nuisance, weapons or repeat-violation eviction ground and no statutory immediate-termination provision. Conduct of that kind reaches the FED court only if it fits W.S. 1-21-1205(a)(i) (destruction, defacement, damage, impairment or removal of part of the unit) or 1-21-1205(a)(ii) (interference with "another person's peaceful enjoyment of the residential property"), or breaches a lease term via 1-21-1204(a)(vii) - and it then carries the ordinary 3-day notice. A criminal-trespass complaint is not an alternative route: W.S. 6-3-303(c) provides "This section does not supersede W.S. 1-21-1003." The only other statutory termination period in the scheme runs the other way and must not be reported as an eviction notice: W.S. 1-21-1203(d) lets an OWNER refuse a habitability repair and terminate the rental agreement when repair costs exceed what is reasonable, and must then "provide the renter with sufficient time to find substitute housing, which shall be no less than ten (10) days nor more than twenty (20) days from the date of the notice."
Court and action	Circuit court, and only circuit court. W.S. 5-9-128(a): "Each circuit court has exclusive original civil jurisdiction within the boundaries of the state for ... (v) Actions for forcible entry or detainer as provided by W.S. 1-21-1001 through 1-21-1016." Jurisdiction is NOT concurrent: Wyoming has no justice-of-the-peace or county court (circuit courts superseded the county courts in 2000) and the district courts have no original FED jurisdiction. A circuit judge may assign an individual case to a district or chancery judge under W.S. 5-9-131(a), in which case "The law and rules governing circuit court and appeals therefrom shall apply" (5-9-131(b)) - a case-assignment mechanism, not concurrent jurisdiction. Action name: forcible entry and detainer (Title 1, ch. 21, art. 10, W.S. 1-21-1001 through 1-21-1017). W.S. 1-21-1001 lets the court "inquire against those who make unlawful and forcible entry into lands and tenements and detain the same, or against those who, having a lawful and peaceable entry into lands or tenements, unlawfully or by force hold the same," and directs that "the judge shall require restitution to the complaining party." Governing procedure: the FED article supplies its own, and is expressly carved out of BOTH rule sets - W.R.C.P.C.C. Rule 2(c) [effective July 1, 2024]: "Except as otherwise provided in these Rules, neither these Rules nor the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure shall govern proceedings initiated in circuit courts pursuant to small claims jurisdiction of the circuit courts, the forceable entry and detainer jurisdiction of the circuit courts, or petitions for stalking orders, petitions for sexual assault protection orders, and family violence orders of protection." (W.R.C.P. Rule 81(b) separately allows a special-proceeding statute's own provisions on "the form, content, time of service or filing" to be followed.) The Uniform Rules for the Circuit Courts of Wyoming contain no FED provision. Filing fee $70 under W.S. 5-9-135 ($20 filing + $40 court automation + $10 indigent civil legal services). Jury waived unless demanded (W.S. 5-9-136; verdict rules at W.S. 1-21-1009). A business entity may appear without counsel under W.S. 1-21-1017 if it is represented by an owner, shareholder, member or partner, it owns a majority interest in the premises, and it files signed written notice - unless it seeks a judgment above the small-claims amount in W.S. 1-21-201 ($6,000). Appeal lies to the DISTRICT court and is reviewed on the record (W.S. 5-9-141; W.R.A.P. Rule 1.02(a), under which "appellate court" means the district court or the Supreme Court and "trial court" includes a circuit court); Supreme Court review thereafter only on a writ of certiorari (W.S. 5-2-119).
Filing to hearing	3 to 12 days - but measured from SERVICE OF THE SUMMONS to the trial date, not from filing. W.S. 1-21-1004: "The summons shall state the cause of the complaint against the defendant, the time and place of trial and shall be served and returned as in other cases. Such service shall be not less than three (3) nor more than twelve (12) days before the day of trial set by the judge." The trial date is set by the judge; no statute and no court rule bounds how quickly the judge must set it or how quickly the summons must be served after filing, so the overall filing-to-hearing interval is unbounded at the front end and the 3-to-12-day window covers only the service-to-trial leg. There is no answer deadline at all: 1-21-1004 provides "The defendant shall not be required to file a written answer to the complaint as a condition of being allowed to participate fully in the trial," and 1-21-1006 that "The defendant may, but is not required to, file a written answer to the plaintiff's complaint." Nonappearance produces no default judgment - W.S. 1-21-1005: "If the defendant does not appear in accordance with a properly served summons the circuit court shall try the action as though he were present. Before proceeding, the plaintiff shall file a complaint in which he relies in order to recover the premises. The complaint must be sustained by proof or the action dismissed." A continuance for the defendant may not exceed two days unless he gives a bond for accruing rent and costs (W.S. 1-21-1007). Where the case is based on failure to pay rent the court must also find the amount of rent due and the parties' payment terms, and issues execution for rent and costs separately from the writ of restitution (W.S. 1-21-1008(b)).
Writ of possession and lockout	Writ of restitution. Issuance is immediate on request with no statutory waiting period: W.S. 1-21-1012 - "When a judgment of restitution is entered by a circuit court, the court shall, at the request of the plaintiff, his agent or attorney, issue a writ of restitution thereon." Execution: W.S. 1-21-1013 - "Unless the defendant takes an appeal, the officer shall execute the writ of restitution within two (2) days after receiving it, Sundays excepted, by restoring the plaintiff to possession of the premises." The two days is a DEADLINE ON THE OFFICER, not a grace period for the tenant: nothing bars same-day execution, and the only thing that stops it is an appeal perfected by the bond required within 48 hours of judgment, Sundays excepted (1-21-1014(b)), plus - where rent was adjudged - the deposit of the judgment rent required by 1-21-1015(a) ("Unless the deposit is made, the appeal is not perfected"). If the officer is notified that proceedings are stayed on appeal after possession has already been restored, he "shall immediately place the defendant in possession thereof" (1-21-1014(a)). Executed by the sheriff: W.S. 1-21-1211(a) - "If the renter does not vacate the premises as required by a court order issued pursuant to W.S. 1-21-1001 et seq., the sheriff may remove the renter's possessions and prevent the renter from reentering the premises without further action by the court." Property left behind: the owner may immediately dispose of trash and of property reasonably believed hazardous, perishable or valueless, and "Any property remaining within the rental unit after termination of the rental agreement shall be presumed to be both valueless and abandoned"; valuable property removed from the unit requires written notice and a 7-day claim window, extended a further 7 days (the statute calls the total a "fifteen (15) day period") if the renter responds in writing, with storage and removal costs payable before the renter takes the property (W.S. 1-21-1210).
Appeal window	No eviction-specific deadline — the standard civil appeal window applies (see notes)
Best-case uncontested timeline (derived from statutory minimums — contested cases run longer)	About 9 to 11 days from the rent due date to lockout at the absolute statutory floor, or about 6 to 8 days if the notice to quit is served during the three-day arrears window rather than after it. This is a derivation from statutory minimums, not a promise and not an observed average. On the sequential reading it adds up as 3 days of unpaid rent before proceedings may be had (W.S. 1-21-1002(a)(i)), then 3 days from service of the notice to quit to commencing the action (W.S. 1-21-1003), then at least 3 days from service of the summons to the trial date set by the judge (W.S. 1-21-1004), then writ execution, which may be same-day and must occur within 2 days of the officer's receipt, Sundays excepted (W.S. 1-21-1012, 1-21-1013). On the concurrent reading - notice to quit served on the first day of default rather than after the 3-day arrears window, a question unresolved by statute - the floor is about 6 to 8 days. Both figures assume the judge sets the trial date and the summons is served the same day the complaint is filed; NO statute or court rule bounds either step, so the real minimum is longer and varies by court. Contested cases, a jury demand (W.S. 5-9-136, 1-21-1009) or a continuance (1-21-1007) run longer; an appeal perfected within 48 hours of judgment, Sundays excepted, with the bond under 1-21-1014(b) and any rent deposit under 1-21-1015(a) stays execution entirely.
Self-help eviction (lockout, utility shutoff) barred	No statute squarely on point — the notes explain what this state's law does and does not address
Self-help scope and tenant remedies	No Wyoming statute prohibits a landlord from changing the locks, removing a tenant's property before judgment, or shutting off utilities — and none permits it either. Wyoming never adopted the URLTA self-help ban. What the Code addresses is FORCE, and only as a remedy or a crime. W.S. 1-21-1001 lets a circuit court "inquire against those who make unlawful and forcible entry into lands and tenements and detain the same, or against those who, having a lawful and peaceable entry into lands or tenements, unlawfully or by force hold the same," and "the judge shall require restitution to the complaining party" - so a dispossessed tenant has an FED remedy of their own against the landlord, but the section supplies a remedy, not a prohibition. W.S. 6-3-306 makes it a misdemeanor punishable by a fine up to $750 if a person "violently takes or keeps possession of land without authority of law" - violence again, not a peaceable lockout. Two provisions point the other way without closing the gap: W.S. 6-3-303(c) provides that criminal trespass "does not supersede W.S. 1-21-1003," so a landlord may not substitute a trespass complaint for the notice to quit and the FED action; and W.S. 1-21-1211(a) routes post-judgment removal through the sheriff acting on a court order. There is no utility-shutoff statute, no statutory damages or penalty for an unlawful lockout, and no general anti-retaliation statute anywhere in the Wyoming Code - the nearest protection is W.S. 1-21-1303(c): "A landlord may not terminate a tenancy based solely on the tenant's or applicant's or a household member's status as a victim of domestic abuse or sexual violence. This subsection does not prohibit adverse housing decisions based upon other lawful factors within the landlord's knowledge." A tenant's affirmative route against a non-repairing owner is W.S. 1-21-1203(b) (written notice of the condition, served by certified mail or in the manner of 1-21-1003) followed by W.S. 1-21-1206(b) (a "notice to repair or correct condition" that must state that if the owner fails to commence reasonable corrective action within three (3) days the renter will seek redress in the courts) and then a civil action in circuit court in which the summons is endorsed with an appearance period "not less than three (3) nor more than twenty (20) days from the date of service" (1-21-1206(c)).

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Wyoming Eviction Process Laws (verified July 25, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/wyoming/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Wyoming statute in the citations section below.

Notes and caveats

One 3-day notice to quit covers every ground — W.S. 1-21-1003 ('Notice to quit premises required') is an affirmative, universal pre-suit requirement: the landlord 'must notify the adverse party to leave the premises involved,' served at least three days before commencing the action. The same notice serves nonpayment, holdover and lease violation alike.
There is no right to cure — anywhere — the notice demands departure, and no Wyoming statute lets a tenant defeat it by paying the rent or fixing the violation. Most secondary sources describe Wyoming as '3-day pay-or-quit plus 30-day no-cause' — both halves are wrong.
Nonpayment carries a second, additive 3-day clock — W.S. 1-21-1002(a)(i) separately requires that rent be unpaid 'for three (3) days after it is due' before proceedings may be brought — an arrears precondition on top of the 3-day notice. The statutes do not say whether the notice may be served during that window: served concurrently, the earliest filing is about day 4 after the due date; sequentially, about day 6.
No 30-day no-cause notice exists — Wyoming has no statutory notice — 30-day or otherwise — for ending a month-to-month or at-will tenancy. W.S. 34-2-128 abolishes tenancies arising by implication except sufferance (no implied renewal by holding over, or by the landlord accepting rent), and 34-2-129 allows renewal only by express written contract. Termination rides the lease's own clause; the only statutory notice is the 3-day notice to quit. Sources reporting a Wyoming '30-day notice,' or calling the 3-day notice a notice to cure, match no statute.
One court only — circuit-court jurisdiction over forcible entry and detainer is exclusive (W.S. 1-21-1001, 5-9-128(a)(v)) — unlike South Dakota's and West Virginia's concurrent schemes, there is exactly one court to file in.
No computation-of-time rule governs the deadlines — Wyoming has no computation-of-time statute (Title 8 carries only the legal-holidays list, W.S. 8-4-101), and W.R.C.P.C.C. Rule 2(c) expressly carves forcible entry and detainer out of both the circuit-court rules and the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure — so W.R.C.P. 6(a) does not on its face govern the 3-day notice or the 3-to-12-day summons window. The figures here are plain calendar days; a court applying Rule 6(a) by analogy would exclude the first day and roll a Saturday, Sunday or holiday last day forward.
'Sundays excepted' means Saturday counts — the two periods the article does qualify — writ execution (§ 1-21-1013) and the appeal bond (§ 1-21-1014(b)) — say 'Sundays excepted': Sunday drops out of the count, but Saturday does not. The 3-day notice, by contrast, runs in unqualified days.
The summons window runs from service, not filing — W.S. 1-21-1004 requires the summons be served 'not less than three (3) nor more than twelve (12) days before the day of trial set by the judge' — but no statute or rule bounds how quickly the judge must set trial or how quickly the summons must be served after filing, so the overall filing-to-hearing interval is unbounded at the front end.
Nonappearance is not a default judgment — no written answer is required, and if the tenant does not appear the court must still try the case: 'the circuit court shall try the action as though he were present ... The complaint must be sustained by proof or the action dismissed' (W.S. 1-21-1005) — the opposite of the default-judgment assumption most eviction templates build in.
The complaint-timing oddity changes nothing — W.S. 1-21-1005 speaks of the plaintiff filing the complaint 'Before proceeding' on a defendant's nonappearance, which reads as a survival of the old practice of issuing the summons first. The article does not cleanly resolve the sequence; Wyoming circuit courts in practice require a complaint at filing (the Judicial Branch publishes landlord eviction forms, and W.S. 5-9-135 charges a $70 filing fee), and nothing turns on it.
The 30-day appeal window will mislead you — there is no eviction-specific appeal statute — the general 30 days of W.R.A.P. 2.01(a) applies to a circuit-court eviction judgment appealed to the district court, which is why the appeal-window field here is blank. The deadline that actually decides possession is different in kind: the appeal stays the judgment only if the tenant executes and files a surety bond 'within forty-eight (48) hours after judgment, Sundays excepted' (W.S. 1-21-1014(b)), and — where rent was adjudged — deposits the judgment rent, or 'the appeal is not perfected' (W.S. 1-21-1015(a)). A page reporting only 30 days misleads: the writ can lawfully execute inside that window.
48 hours is a stay deadline, not an appeal window — the 48-hour figure is a stay-bond requirement, not the time to appeal — the appeal itself runs on the general 30 days. After the district court, Supreme Court review is by discretionary certiorari only (W.S. 5-2-119).
Self-help: genuinely unanswered — Wyoming never adopted the URLTA self-help prohibition. W.S. 1-21-1001 and the criminal statute W.S. 6-3-306 reach only forcible or violent dispossession; nothing in the Code addresses a peaceable lockout or a utility shutoff. Section 1-21-1001 gives a dispossessed tenant a restitution remedy without stating a prohibition — and no statute permits self-help either, which is why the field is neither yes nor no.
No self-help provision anywhere in the Act — the entire Residential Rental Property Act (§§ 1-21-1201 through 1-21-1210) contains no self-help, lockout or utility-shutoff provision at all; its only utility references are to utility deposits (§ 1-21-1208).
How thin that is — a contrast — South Dakota's self-help ban (§ 43-32-6) is residential-specific and names electric, gas and water; Wyoming's provisions reach only force.
Mobile-home lots: outside the Act, inside the eviction article — W.S. 1-21-1201(a)(iv) excludes 'a mobile home lot or recreational property rented on an occasional basis' from 'residential rental unit,' so the Act's habitability duties, deposit rules and abandoned-property procedure do not reach mobile-home-lot tenancies — but those tenancies remain subject to the same forcible entry and detainer article, because §§ 1-21-1002 and 1-21-1003 are not limited to Act-covered units.
Debunk: there is no 'Wyoming Mobile Home Park Act' — no separate statutory mobile-home-park, RV-park, hotel/motel, employer-housing or farm-labor eviction scheme exists anywhere in the Wyoming Code — Titles 34, 35 and 40 carry none, and Title 35 contains only the Mobile Home Warranty Act of 1975 and § 35-4-224, 'Standards for mobile home parks eliminated'. Secondary sources describing a 'Wyoming Mobile Home Park Act' with retaliation protection and a 30-day notice could not be tied to any statute and appear to be fabricated.
Duties can be rewritten by contract — W.S. 1-21-1202(d) lets 'Any duty or obligation in this article' be reassigned or modified 'by explicit written agreement signed by the parties' — an unusually broad opt-out.
No local eviction ordinances — no Wyoming statute authorizes municipal or county notice-period, just-cause or rent-control ordinances — and no express preemption statute exists either. Title 15 (cities and towns) contains no landlord-tenant provision; municipal codes do regulate mobile-home-park licensing and zoning. No official registry of local landlord-tenant ordinances exists, so none is listed.
Two cross-references in the statutes are stale — W.S. 5-9-128(a)(v) still grants jurisdiction over '1-21-1001 through 1-21-1016' although § 1-21-1017 was added in 2021, and W.S. 1-21-1002(b) still refers to '1-21-1201 through 1-21-1210' although the Act runs through § 1-21-1211. Both read as unamended cross-references rather than substantive limits.
Unchanged since 2021 — the eviction article and the Residential Rental Property Act were not amended in 2025 or 2026; every recent candidate bill died (2025 HB0213 and 2024 HB0097 were not considered for introduction; 2023 HB0216 died in committee). The last enacted change is 2021 Wyo. Sess. Laws ch. 143 (S.F. 0141, effective July 1, 2021), which created § 1-21-1017 — and nothing enacted-but-not-yet-effective bears on this topic.
The compilation and the enrolled act agree — every headline figure shown here appears in the Legislature's own compiled Title 1 PDF in the same terms as of July 25, 2026, and the compilation is anchored by the 2021 enrolled act, which the codified § 1-21-1017 matches word for word.

Common questions: Wyoming eviction process

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

How much notice does a landlord have to give before filing an eviction for unpaid rent in Wyoming?: 3 days. The document is a notice to QUIT, not a pay-or-quit notice — no Wyoming statute gives the tenant a right to cure by paying. One written notice to leave, served at least three days before the action is commenced, covers every ground including nonpayment.
How much notice is required to evict for a lease violation in Wyoming?: 3 days. There is no cure window anywhere in the eviction article. The same written notice to quit, served at least three days before the action, is all a lease violation requires, and the termination of the tenancy itself rides the lease's own clause.
How long does an eviction take in Wyoming?: About 9 to 11 days from the rent due date to lockout at the absolute statutory floor, or about 6 to 8 days if the notice to quit is served during the three-day arrears window rather than after it.
How long does a tenant have to appeal an eviction judgment in Wyoming?: No eviction-specific deadline — the standard civil appeal window applies (see notes).
Can a landlord change the locks or shut off utilities instead of going to court in Wyoming?: No statute squarely on point — the notes explain what this state's law does and does not address. No Wyoming statute prohibits a landlord from changing the locks, removing a tenant's property before judgment, or shutting off utilities — and none permits it either. Wyoming never adopted the URLTA self-help ban.

Statute citations

W.S. 1-21-1001 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1002 (a)(i) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1002 (a)(vi), (b) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1003 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1004 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1005 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1006 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1007 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1008 (b) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1009 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1012 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1013 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1014 (a), (b) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1015 (a) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1017 (a), (b), (c) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-201 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1201 (a)(iv), (a)(v) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1202 (c), (d) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1203 (b), (d) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1204 (a)(vi), (a)(vii) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1205 (a) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1206 (b)(v), (c), (d) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1208 (a) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1210 (a)(i)-(iii), (b) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1211 (a) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1303 (c) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 5-9-128 (a), (a)(v) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 5-9-131 (b) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 5-9-135 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 5-9-136 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 5-9-141 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 5-2-119 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 6-3-303 (c) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 6-3-306 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 34-2-128 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 34-2-129 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 35-4-224 (verified 2026) Official source
W.R.C.P.C.C. Rule 2 (c) [effective July 1, 2024] (verified 2026) Official source
W.R.C.P. Rule 6 (a) (verified 2026) Official source
W.R.C.P. Rule 81 (b) (verified 2026) Official source
W.R.A.P. Rule 1.02 (a), (b) (verified 2026) Official source
W.R.A.P. Rule 2.01 (a) (verified 2026) Official source
Uniform Rules for the Circuit Courts of Wyoming (verified 2026) Official source
2021 Wyo. Sess. Laws ch. 143 (S.F. 0141, Senate Enrolled Act No. 71) - enacting W.S. 1-21-1017 secs. 1-3 (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1001 through 1-21-1017 (official HTML alternate to the title PDF) (verified 2026) Official source
W.S. 1-21-1201 through 1-21-1211 (official HTML alternate to the title PDF) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text from the official Wyoming Legislative Service Office statute files (wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title01.pdf, title34.pdf, title15.pdf, title40.pdf — the Title 1 file reflects 2025-session repeals and is current through the 2025 General Session): Title 1 ch. 21 art. 12 (W.S. 1-21-1201 through 1-21-1211) and art. 10 (1-21-1001 through 1-21-1017) read in full, plus W.S. 34-2-126 through 34-2-132. Double-read via a second official endpoint: the LSO NXT infobase ('2021 Titles', wyoleg.gov/NXT/gateway.dll) article views for arts. 12 and 10 — the entire Article 12 text (12,872 normalized characters) is CHARACTER-IDENTICAL between the official 2021 edition and the official 2025 PDF. Deposit figures additionally triple-read against the Wyoming Judicial Branch's TENANT Form 03 instructions (wyocourts.gov, rev. Sept 2024), which reprint W.S. 1-21-1208 verbatim; FED figures corroborated by the Judicial Branch Eviction Handout; FindLaw mirror matched 1-21-1208 and 34-2-128 verbatim. Verified negatives (no deposit cap, no interest or separate-account rule beyond the express 'without interest' clause, no rent-increase or periodic-termination notice statute, no late-fee cap or grace period, no entry-notice statute, no rent-control or preemption provision) run by full-article reads plus keyword sweeps of Titles 1, 15, 34 and 40 — zero occurrences of 'month-to-month', 'late fee', 'late charge' or 'grace period' in Titles 1/15/34. Session sweep on the official LSO bill API (lsoservice.wyoleg.gov): all 891 bills of the 2025 General and 2026 Budget Sessions enumerated by short title, and all 278 enacted chapters (171 of 2025, 107 of 2026) separately enumerated — zero on-topic enactments; dead bills 2025 HB0213 (owner utility duties) and 2026 HB0183 (renter tax relief) both 'Did not Consider for Introduction'. The 2026 Budget Session has adjourned; next regular session January 2027.