Unit research · Arizona Unit 43A

Unit 43A — Arizona

40% public across 602,925 ac. Road access is easy — only 20% 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 (1)Odds and pins: free, no account

Unit 43AFull map — ownership, roads, wind →

210–3,250 ft

elevation range

40%

public land

20%

of public >1 mi from a road

258 ac

landlocked public

1.46

road miles per mi²

4 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

2 limited-entry bighorn sheep and deer hunts are drawn on Unit 43A: 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 · 1 draw hunt (2026)$58.00 resident · $315.00 nonresident

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 →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 33%■ SDOL 5%■ FWS 2%□ Private 60%

Unit area602,925 ac

Public land240,587 ac (40%)

Landlocked public258 ac (0.1%)

Bighorn sheep draw pressure0.005 tags/mi² public (0.002 of total area)

Walk-in access1,300 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,373 mi

Maintained trails4 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road47,296 ac (20% of public)

Road density1.46 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 200k ac · SDOL 29k ac · FWS 10k ac

Elevation210–3,250 ft

Median elevation720 ft

Median slope1°

Where the ground sits

210 ft3,250 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 30%

E 18%

S 27%

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

6,866 ac of this unit has burned — 1% 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 BLYTHE AIRPORT, 33 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · OTC archery

12% success

3 taken by 74 hunters · 625 days afield

3 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 0% → 12%

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 44B89% public · 25% remote Unit 45A100% public · 34% remote Unit 43B20% public · 32% remote Unit 45C100% public · 46% remote Unit 44A90% public · 36% remote Unit 16B78% public · 21% remote

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