Unit research · Idaho Unit 22

Unit 22 — Idaho

73% public across 548,318 ac. Road access is easy — only 8% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Black bear draw odds (3)Deer draw odds (3)Elk draw odds (6)Mountain goat draw odds (1)Turkey draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

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1,390–8,650 ft

elevation range

73%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

7,372 ac

landlocked public

3.33

road miles per mi²

1,821 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

15 limited-entry black bear, deer, elk, mountain goat and turkey hunts are drawn on Unit 22: apply in the Idaho draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Black bear tag · 3 draw hunts (2026)$20.00 resident · $249.75 nonresident

Deer tag · 3 draw hunts (2026)$31.00 resident · $369.75 nonresident

Elk tag · 6 draw hunts (2026)$43.00 resident · $669.75 nonresident

Mountain goat tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$216.50 resident · $2,672.50 nonresident

Turkey tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$29.00 resident · $106.00 nonresident

Plus: Idaho hunting licence$15.75 resident · $185.00 nonresident

Season dates: see Idaho Department of Fish and Game's regulations

IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, residents ↗

Idaho black bear, deer, elk, mountain goat and turkey draw calendar

Jan 15, 2027 — applications open
Feb 1, 2027 — applications open
Feb 15, 2027 — application deadline

IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, residents ↗Draw odds for Idaho black bear →Draw odds for Idaho deer →Draw odds for Idaho elk →Draw odds for Idaho mountain goat →Draw odds for Idaho turkey →How the Idaho draw works →

Fees and draw dates from Idaho Department of Fish and Game, 2026, verified 2026-08-13. 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: IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, residents · IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, nonresidents · IDFG — Controlled hunt application information.

Land & access

■ USFS 55%■ SDOL 10%■ BLM 8%■ Other public 1%□ Private 27%

Unit area548,318 ac

Public land401,873 ac (73%)

Landlocked public7,372 ac (1.8%)

Deer draw pressure0.16 tags/mi² public (0.12 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.088 tags/mi² public (0.063 of total area)

Mountain goat draw pressure0.005 tags/mi² public (0.004 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,849 mi

Maintained trails1,821 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road32,470 ac (8% of public)

Road density3.33 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 299k ac · SDOL 57k ac · BLM 42k ac

Elevation1,390–8,650 ft

Median elevation4,480 ft

Median slope14°

Where the ground sits

1,390 ft8,650 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 19%

E 26%

S 25%

W 31%

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

133,437 ac of this unit has burned — 24% of the unit. USGS migration corridors cover 2%. 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 BAKER CITY MUNICIPAL ARPT, 93 km from the unit’s center and ~1,100 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · by unit

24% success

425 taken by 1,754 hunters · 8,374 days afield

234 bucks · 191 does

Deer hunter success · 2015–2025 · 29% → 24%

IDFG harvest by Game Management Unit, one row per unit per season per take method. Success rates and hunter days are published by IDFG and carried verbatim wherever a row comes straight from the department; nothing here is derived except where several hunts share one area, and there the rate is recomputed from the summed hunters and harvest because a per-hunt percentage does not survive being added up. Where a cell is blank IDFG suppressed a small sample, and it stays blank rather than being back-computed. Take method ("Any Weapon", "Archery", "Muzzleloader") is the variant for general seasons and the rows are NOT summable — each is its own season, not a component of a total. IDFG's own "All Weapons Combined" row is carried as the `all` variant, so the total is the department's arithmetic rather than ours. Idaho's draw-only animals have no general season at all. Moose, mountain goat and both bighorn herds appear under a `controlled` variant covering the limited-entry hunts, and the two sheep herds stay separate — a Rocky Mountain and a California bighorn are different animals in different mountains, with their own once-in-a-lifetime rules. Source: IDFG Hunt Planner — general hunt harvest statistics by unit (deer) · IDFG Hunt Planner map service — HarvestStats_mainTbl (all other species).

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 2376% public · 19% remote Unit 32A71% public · 3% remote Unit 3149% public · 21% remote Unit 1879% public · 41% remote Unit 3229% public · 16% remote Unit 2457% public · 11% remote

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What happens nextJan 15 — Black bear applications open · details →Feb 1 — Turkey applications open · details →Feb 15 — Black bear application deadline · details →