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Units / California / Hunt zone A15

Zone X8 Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A15 · California

Deer hunt area — its own geography, not the zone with the same number. Public land, access, and deer harvest below are computed for this boundary.

Hunt zone A15Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

91%

301,262 ac of 332,827 ac

Landlocked public

887 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

36%

of public · 107,698 ac

Walk-in access

5,503 ac

private land opened to hunting

Deer · 2024

20% success

no district-level hunter estimate published

8 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 11% → 20%

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California deer draw odds — 1 hunt here

40 tags drawn on this hunt zone last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation4,830–11,370 ft
Median elevation7,730 ft
Median slope16°

Where the ground sits

4,830 ft11,370 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%
E 27%
S 18%
W 29%

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 →

Nearby deer hunt zones

Carson River Apprentice Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone J7 · 91% publicZone X12 Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A20 · 87% publicPacific-Grizzly Flat Apprentice Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone J18 · 30% publicZone X7b Apprentice Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone J20 · 65% public

Boundaries from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife deer hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; access from the state walk-in program; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.