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Unit 46 — Idaho

75% public hunting land across 1,832,478 ac. Road access is easy — only 7% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Elk draw odds (5)Pronghorn draw odds (3)Odds and pins: free, no account

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2,460–6,140 ft

elevation range

75%

public hunting land

of public >1 mi from a road

3,731 ac

landlocked public

1.44

road miles per mi²

2,211 mi

trails on public land

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

8 limited-entry elk and pronghorn hunts are drawn on Unit 46: apply in the Idaho draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Elk tag · 5 draw hunts (2026)$43.00 resident · $669.75 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 elk and pronghorn draw calendar

May 1, 2027 — applications open
May 1, 2027 — applications open
Jun 5, 2027 — application deadline

IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, residents ↗Draw odds for Idaho elk →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 72%■ State lands 4%■ State wildlife 1%▨ Parks & other public 1%□ Private 24%

Unit area1,832,478 ac

Public hunting land1,379,439 ac (75%)

Parks & other public16,605 ac · State lands, State parks, National Park Service

Landlocked public3,731 ac (0.3%)

Elk draw pressure0.053 tags/mi² public (0.040 of total area)

Pronghorn draw pressure0.028 tags/mi² public (0.021 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)4,118 mi

Mapped trails on public land2,211 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road93,524 ac (7% of public)

Road density1.44 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 1312k ac · State lands 67k ac · State wildlife 13k ac

Elevation2,460–6,140 ft

Median elevation4,300 ft

Median slope2°

Where the ground sits

2,460 ft6,140 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 29%

E 23%

S 21%

W 27%

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 →

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1,094,811 ac of this unit has burned — 60% 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 MOUNTAIN HOME AFB AIRPORT, 82 km from the unit’s center and ~1,300 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · by unit

22% success

406 taken by 1,812 hunters · 8,318 days afield

332 bucks · 74 does

Deer hunter success · 2015–2025 · 29% → 22%

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, tell us at support@openhuntmaps.com — the fix ships for everyone.

Nearby units

Unit 4775% public · 4% remote Unit 4180% public · 12% remote Unit 4564% public · 8% remote Unit 5459% public · 3% remote Unit 5332% public · 0% remote Unit 5268% public · 2% remote

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What happens nextMay 1 — Elk applications open · details →May 1 — Pronghorn applications open · details →Jun 5 — Elk application deadline · details →