Unit research · Idaho Unit 30A

Unit 30A — Idaho

88% public across 176,278 ac. Road access is easy — only 15% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Deer draw odds (2)Elk draw odds (2)Moose draw odds (1)Pronghorn draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

Unit 30AFull map — ownership, roads, wind →

5,960–10,900 ft

elevation range

88%

public land

15%

of public >1 mi from a road

635 ac

landlocked public

1.02

road miles per mi²

90 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

7 limited-entry deer, elk, moose and pronghorn hunts are drawn on Unit 30A: apply in the Idaho draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$31.00 resident · $369.75 nonresident

Elk tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$43.00 resident · $669.75 nonresident

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

Pronghorn tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$42.75 resident · $360.75 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 deer, elk, moose and pronghorn draw calendar

Apr 1, 2027 — applications open
Apr 30, 2027 — application deadline
May 1, 2027 — applications open

IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, residents ↗Draw odds for Idaho deer →Draw odds for Idaho elk →Draw odds for Idaho moose →Draw odds for Idaho pronghorn →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

■ BLM 52%■ USFS 32%■ SDOL 3%□ Private 12%

Unit area176,278 ac

Public land155,052 ac (88%)

Landlocked public635 ac (0.4%)

Deer draw pressure0.15 tags/mi² public (0.13 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.21 tags/mi² public (0.18 of total area)

Pronghorn draw pressure0.17 tags/mi² public (0.15 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)282 mi

Maintained trails90 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road22,585 ac (15% of public)

Road density1.02 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 92k ac · USFS 57k ac · SDOL 6k ac

Elevation5,960–10,900 ft

Median elevation7,290 ft

Median slope8°

Where the ground sits

5,960 ft10,900 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 21%

E 17%

S 24%

W 38%

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

1,924 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 REXBURG-MADISON COUNTY APT, 139 km from the unit’s center and ~2,400 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · by unit

38% success

30 taken by 79 hunters · 371 days afield

18 bucks · 13 does

Deer hunter success · 2015–2025 · 21% → 38%

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)
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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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What happens nextApr 1 — Moose applications open · details →Apr 30 — Moose application deadline · details →May 1 — Deer applications open · details →