Unit research · Idaho Unit 32A

Unit 32A — Idaho

71% public across 381,930 ac. Road access is easy — only 3% 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 (2)Deer draw odds (1)Elk draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

Unit 32AFull map — ownership, roads, wind →

2,820–8,240 ft

elevation range

71%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

4,089 ac

landlocked public

4.12

road miles per mi²

1,396 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

5 limited-entry black bear, deer and elk hunts are drawn on Unit 32A: apply in the Idaho draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Black bear tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$20.00 resident · $249.75 nonresident

Deer tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$31.00 resident · $369.75 nonresident

Elk tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$43.00 resident · $669.75 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 black bear, deer and elk draw calendar

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

IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, residents ↗Draw odds for Idaho black bear →Draw odds for Idaho deer →Draw odds for Idaho elk →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 58%■ BLM 9%■ SDOL 3%□ Private 29%

Unit area381,930 ac

Public land271,007 ac (71%)

Landlocked public4,089 ac (1.5%)

Black bear draw pressure0.42 tags/mi² public (0.29 of total area)

Deer draw pressure0.072 tags/mi² public (0.050 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,458 mi

Maintained trails1,396 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road9,005 ac (3% of public)

Road density4.12 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 223k ac · BLM 34k ac · SDOL 13k ac

Elevation2,820–8,240 ft

Median elevation4,840 ft

Median slope13°

Where the ground sits

2,820 ft8,240 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 18%

E 18%

S 22%

W 41%

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

145,015 ac of this unit has burned — 38% 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 ONTARIO MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, 81 km from the unit’s center and ~2,700 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · by unit

16% success

430 taken by 2,624 hunters · 13,669 days afield

404 bucks · 26 does

Deer hunter success · 2015–2025 · 27% → 16%

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.

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