Living in Dubois, WY
Fremont County
Dubois is a real, current small town in Fremont County, Wyoming, sitting at 6,959 feet in the upper Wind River Valley and functioning as a genuine gateway to the Wind River Range via Togwotee Pass and the DuNoir Valley. Dubois carries a real, well-documented 'tie-hack' timber history -- railroad-tie logging that ran from 1914 until the Wyoming Tie and Timber Company's 1947 closure, which directly shrank the town from a 1980 peak of just over 1,000 residents to fewer than 900 by 1990. Today Dubois's population runs a real, disclosed 801-911 depending on the citation, and the town has become a genuinely, dramatically retiree-driven community: its median age (61.7) and senior population share (31.10%-43.4%) both run dramatically above Wyoming's own statewide figures, consistent with sources describing Dubois's post-timber economy as depending substantially on retirees and remote workers. Dubois is also the real, current home of the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center (established 1993), near where the largest bighorn sheep herd in the coterminous US winters. This record discloses honestly a real, well-documented major wildfire risk (99% of area properties) and a genuinely wide, disclosed cross-source spread on Dubois's housing figures.
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- Moving to Dubois: Pros, Cons & What to Know
- Cost of Living in Dubois
- Housing in Dubois
- Taxes & Insurance in Dubois
- Climate in Dubois
- Schools & Families in Dubois
- Healthcare & Safety in Dubois
- Pros and Cons of Living in Dubois
- Retiring in Dubois
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Taxes
Not independently sourced at the Fremont County level this session. Wyoming carries no income tax statewide. See the Wyoming hub page for the statewide property tax context -- do not treat that figure as Dubois-specific.
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Pros
A genuinely extreme, well-documented senior population share makes Dubois a real, distinctly retiree-relevant Wyoming market. Wyoming's real, current statewide tax advantage (no state income tax) applies directly. Genuine mountain-gateway access to the Wind River Range, Togwotee Pass, and Shoshone National Forest. A real, current, and specific cultural anchor in the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center.
Cons
A real, well-documented major wildfire risk affects 99% of area properties, reinforced by real, recent nearby fires. A real, disclosed, dramatically wide housing-price spread ($296,296-$550,000) reflecting genuine small-sample volatility. This pass did not confirm a hospital or major healthcare facility located in Dubois itself -- a real, disclosed access gap. A real, disclosed multi-decade population decline following the town's 1947 timber-industry closure.
Who this fits
Best for: Best fits retirees and remote workers drawn to a genuine, small, mountain-gateway community with real Wind River Range access, who are comfortable with a real, well-documented wildfire risk and a real, disclosed local healthcare-access gap.
Maybe not for you if: Probably not the right fit for movers who need in-town hospital-level healthcare access, a large or diversified local job market, or who are unwilling to accept a documented, real major wildfire risk in forest-adjacent terrain -- Dubois's real, disclosed economic and hazard realities are defining, not incidental.
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