Unit research · Arizona Unit 15D

Unit 15D — Arizona

62% public across 559,836 ac. Road access is easy — only 24% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. No landlocked public land.

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Bighorn sheep draw odds (2)Deer draw odds (4)Javelina draw odds (1)Odds and pins: free, no account

Unit 15DFull map — ownership, roads, wind →

450–5,120 ft

elevation range

62%

public land

24%

of public >1 mi from a road

0 ac

landlocked public

2.61

road miles per mi²

60 mi

maintained trails

Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

7 limited-entry bighorn sheep, deer and javelina hunts are drawn on Unit 15D: apply in the Arizona draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Bighorn sheep tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$313.00 resident · $1,815.00 nonresident

Deer tag · 4 draw hunts (2026)$58.00 resident · $315.00 nonresident

Javelina tag · 1 draw huntprice not published

Plus: Arizona hunting license (365-day)$37.00 resident · $160.00 nonresident

Season dates: see Arizona Game and Fish Department's regulations

2026 Pronghorn and Elk Hunt Draw Information (AZGFD booklet) ↗

Arizona Game and Fish Department — licenses and tags ↗Draw odds for Arizona bighorn sheep →Draw odds for Arizona deer →Draw odds for Arizona javelina →How the Arizona draw works →

Fees and draw dates from Arizona Game and Fish Department, 2026, verified 2026-08-05 — past its verify-by date, confirm with the agency. 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: 2026 Pronghorn and Elk Hunt Draw Information (AZGFD booklet) · 2026-27 Arizona Hunting Regulations (AZGFD booklet) · AZGFD bulletin: 2026 pronghorn/elk results · AZGFD bulletin: 2026 fall draw results.

Land & access

■ BLM 55%■ SDOL 4%■ FWS 2%■ Other public 1%□ Private 38%

Unit area559,836 ac

Public land349,352 ac (62%)

Landlocked public0 ac (0.0%)

Bighorn sheep draw pressure0.009 tags/mi² public (0.006 of total area)

Walk-in access461 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,282 mi

Maintained trails60 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road85,410 ac (24% of public)

Road density2.61 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 310k ac · SDOL 21k ac · FWS 13k ac

Elevation450–5,120 ft

Median elevation1,910 ft

Median slope2°

Where the ground sits

450 ft5,120 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 23%

E 21%

S 29%

W 28%

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

15,957 ac of this unit has burned — 3% of the unit. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Season conditions — measured, not vibes

Historical temperatures · 2000–2025

Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month

Measured at NEEDLES AIRPORT, 33 km from the unit’s center and ~1,000 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · OTC archery

0% success

0 taken by 5 hunters · 19 days afield

0 bucks · 0 does

Deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 0% → 0%

AZGFD survey estimates. Draw-hunt results are published per hunt number (grouped or split unit geographies) and appear on the draw-odds tables; the over-the-counter archery deer questionnaire is Arizona's only per-unit harvest publication, so unit pages show OTC archery deer only. Deer counts combine mule deer and white-tailed; "antlerless" is recorded as female. Source: AZGFD Harvest Questionnaire Summaries (per species-year).

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)
# AGPL — read the pipeline →

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.

Nearby units

Unit 16B78% public · 21% remote Unit 15C81% public · 52% remote Unit 16A80% public · 30% remote Unit 15B66% public · 36% remote Unit 15A80% public · 33% remote Unit 18A52% public · 15% remote

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