Unit research · Alaska Unit 21C
Unit 21C — Alaska
94% public across 2,342,268 ac. Real backcountry here — 99% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 147,384 ac of public land has no public route in.
Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →
Tags & season
Tags: check Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
No draw hunts are published for this unit. Tag type, quotas and season dates are in Alaska Department of Fish and Game's regulations.
Season dates: see Alaska Department of Fish and Game's regulations
ADF&G — 2026-2027 Alaska Hunting Regulations (licences, locking tags, guide requirement) ↗
Fees and draw dates from Alaska Department of Fish and Game, 2026, verified 2026-08-16. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a unit that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: ADF&G — 2026-2027 Alaska Hunting Regulations (licences, locking tags, guide requirement) · ADF&G — Drawing hunt information.
Land & access
Backcountry
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing
North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.
USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →
Unit intelligence report
629,786 ac of this unit has burned — 27% of the unit. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.
Season conditions — measured, not vibes
Historical temperatures · 2000–2025
Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month
Measured at RALPH M CALHOUN MEML ARPT, 105 km from the unit’s center and ~900 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.
Harvest — agency survey estimates
Moose · 2024 · all hunts
59.5% success
22 taken by 37 hunters
Res 62% · NR 58% success
Moose hunter success · 2005–2024 · 37% → 60%
caribou · 2024 · all hunts
0% success
0 taken by 2 hunters
NR 0% success
caribou hunter success · 2005–2024 · 0% → 0%
dall sheep · 2023 · all hunts
0% success
0 taken by 1 hunters
Res 0% success
dall sheep hunter success · 2012–2023 · 50% → 0%
Registered harvest by GAME MANAGEMENT SUBUNIT, twenty seasons (2005-2024), across SEVEN species — moose, caribou, Dall sheep, mountain goat, bison, muskox and elk. That is the widest species set of any state here, and the only place caribou, muskox and Dall sheep appear at all. ⚠️ RESIDENCY SPLITS BOTH THE NUMERATOR AND THE DENOMINATOR. ADF&G reports successful AND unsuccessful hunters separately for residents and nonresidents, so Alaska carries a true per-residency success rate rather than a harvest split against a shared hunter count. Most states publish neither half. ⚠️ ALASKA'S SHEEP ARE DALL SHEEP (Ovis dalli), not the bighorn every other state in this set hunts. ADF&G's own form says only "Sheep"; the species is named accurately here so a cross-state view cannot merge two different animals. ⚠️ A BARE UNIT NUMBER IS THE "SUBUNIT NOT REPORTED" BUCKET. Alongside 13A-13E the report carries a row for plain "13", and it is NOT their subtotal — in 2024 it holds 33 hunters and one moose against the subunits' 3,793 and 697. It is where hunters who named the unit but not the subunit land. Those rows are kept because they are real published harvest, but they match no polygon and appear on no unit page. ⚠️ THE REPORT'S UNIT IDS ARE ZERO-PADDED ("01A", "02Z") while ADF&G's own map layer uses "1A" and "2". The trailing Z is an internal marker meaning "no subunits" and appears in no publication. Normalised at ingest; left alone, every row would fail to find its polygon silently. Fetched through the department's own form: an ASP.NET antiforgery token that ROTATES on every response, behind an F5 firewall that rejects invented URLs. See scripts/ak-harvest-to-csv.py. Deer and bear are not in this tool and are not carried. Source: ADF&G — General Harvest Reports, report 330 'Hunter AK Residency and Success by Unit'.
How these numbers are made
Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.
Ready to scout it?
Everything on this page, live on the map — ownership, boundaries, roads, and your own waypoints.
Take Unit 21C into the field
Download Alaska’s pack and this unit works with no signal — boundaries, ownership, roads, elevation. Record your hunt with the screen off. Check what’s visible from any ridge.
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