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Unit 31 — Arizona

86% public across 776,324 ac. Road access is easy — only 13% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Bighorn sheep draw odds (1)Deer draw odds (7)Elk draw odds (2)Javelina draw odds (5)Pronghorn draw odds (2)Turkey draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

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1,920–10,700 ft

elevation range

86%

public land

13%

of public >1 mi from a road

128 ac

landlocked public

1.48

road miles per mi²

308 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

19 limited-entry bighorn sheep, deer, elk, javelina, pronghorn and turkey hunts are drawn on Unit 31: apply in the Arizona draw, by the agency's deadline below.

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

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

Elk tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$148.00 resident · $665.00 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 bighorn sheep →Draw odds for Arizona deer →Draw odds for Arizona elk →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 35%■ USFS 32%■ BLM 18%■ Other public 1%□ Private 14%

Unit area776,324 ac

Public land670,521 ac (86%)

Landlocked public128 ac (0.0%)

Deer draw pressure0.50 tags/mi² public (0.43 of total area)

Javelina draw pressure0.17 tags/mi² public (0.14 of total area)

Turkey draw pressure0.006 tags/mi² public (0.005 of total area)

Walk-in access1,143 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,796 mi

Maintained trails308 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road85,429 ac (13% of public)

Road density1.48 mi/mi²

Managed bySDOL 273k ac · USFS 248k ac · BLM 142k ac

Elevation1,920–10,700 ft

Median elevation4,460 ft

Median slope6°

Where the ground sits

1,920 ft10,700 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 23%

E 26%

S 25%

W 25%

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

119,260 ac of this unit has burned — 15% 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 DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB AIRPORT, 103 km from the unit’s center and ~1,800 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · OTC archery

4% success

38 taken by 477 hunters · 2,820 days afield

38 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 15% → 4%

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

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