Unit research · Idaho Unit 39

Unit 39 — Idaho

77% public across 1,553,849 ac. Road access is easy — only 16% 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 (4)Elk draw odds (6)Mountain goat draw odds (1)Pronghorn draw odds (3)Odds and pins: free, no account

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2,580–10,510 ft

elevation range

77%

public land

16%

of public >1 mi from a road

10,867 ac

landlocked public

2.59

road miles per mi²

4,638 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

14 limited-entry deer, elk, mountain goat and pronghorn hunts are drawn on Unit 39: apply in the Idaho draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 4 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

Pronghorn tag · 3 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, mountain goat 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 mountain goat →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

■ USFS 60%■ BLM 9%■ SDOL 6%■ Other public 2%□ Private 23%

Unit area1,553,849 ac

Public land1,200,683 ac (77%)

Landlocked public10,867 ac (0.9%)

Deer draw pressure0.11 tags/mi² public (0.082 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.21 tags/mi² public (0.16 of total area)

Mountain goat draw pressure0.001 tags/mi² public (0.000 of total area)

Pronghorn draw pressure0.038 tags/mi² public (0.029 of total area)

Walk-in access106 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)6,299 mi

Maintained trails4,638 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road191,131 ac (16% of public)

Road density2.59 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 939k ac · BLM 143k ac · SDOL 89k ac

Elevation2,580–10,510 ft

Median elevation5,020 ft

Median slope18°

Where the ground sits

2,580 ft10,510 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 21%

E 24%

S 26%

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 →

Unit intelligence report

607,793 ac of this unit has burned — 39% 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 BOISE AIR TERMINAL/GOWEN FD AIRPORT, 47 km from the unit’s center and ~2,200 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · by unit

20% success

2,145 taken by 10,929 hunters · 49,679 days afield

1,753 bucks · 393 does

Deer hunter success · 2015–2025 · 27% → 20%

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

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