You may manually increase time to keep this log files. Edit
/etc/logrotate.conf:

...
/var/log/wtmp {
    missingok
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1    <------ change this value to 12 to keep log files for 12 months
}
...

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  wtmp retention period is very short

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