Unit research · Arizona Unit 30A

Unit 30A — Arizona

49% public across 1,105,561 ac. Road access is easy — only 11% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 16,593 ac of public land has no public route in.

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Deer draw odds (7)Javelina draw odds (5)Pronghorn draw odds (2)Turkey draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

Unit 30AFull map — ownership, roads, wind →

3,700–8,100 ft

elevation range

49%

public land

11%

of public >1 mi from a road

16,593 ac

landlocked public

1.53

road miles per mi²

44 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

16 limited-entry deer, javelina, pronghorn and turkey hunts are drawn on Unit 30A: apply in the Arizona draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 7 draw hunts (2026)$58.00 resident · $315.00 nonresident

Javelina tag · 5 draw huntsprice not published

Pronghorn tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$103.00 resident · $565.00 nonresident

Turkey tag · 2 draw huntsprice 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 deer →Draw odds for Arizona javelina →Draw odds for Arizona pronghorn →Draw odds for Arizona turkey →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

■ SDOL 33%■ USFS 6%■ BLM 6%■ Other public 3%□ Private 51%

Unit area1,105,561 ac

Public land538,951 ac (49%)

Landlocked public16,593 ac (3.1%)

Deer draw pressure1.1 tags/mi² public (0.51 of total area)

Javelina draw pressure0.46 tags/mi² public (0.22 of total area)

Pronghorn draw pressure0.009 tags/mi² public (0.004 of total area)

Walk-in access558 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,636 mi

Maintained trails44 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road56,913 ac (11% of public)

Road density1.53 mi/mi²

Managed bySDOL 366k ac · USFS 71k ac · BLM 66k ac

Elevation3,700–8,100 ft

Median elevation4,440 ft

Median slope1°

Where the ground sits

3,700 ft8,100 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 24%

E 25%

S 24%

W 27%

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

58,970 ac of this unit has burned — 5% 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 SIERRA VISTA MUNICIPAL-LIBBY AAF AIRPORT, 77 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · OTC archery

14% success

26 taken by 232 hunters · 1,769 days afield

26 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 20% → 14%

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 2969% public · 18% remote Unit 30B52% public · 11% remote Unit 3278% public · 19% remote Unit 2886% public · 15% remote Unit 3186% public · 13% remote Unit 35A49% public · 8% remote

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