Unit research · Idaho Unit 5

Unit 5 — Idaho

6% public across 457,397 ac. Road access is easy — only 0% 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 (1)Elk draw odds (2)Moose draw odds (3)Odds and pins: free, no account

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2,040–5,170 ft

elevation range

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

656 ac

landlocked public

2.02

road miles per mi²

397 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

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

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

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

Moose tag · 3 draw hunts (2026)$216.50 resident · $2,672.50 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 and moose 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 →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

■ SDOL 3%■ SPR 2%■ USFS 1%■ Other public 1%□ Private 94%

Unit area457,397 ac

Public land27,644 ac (6%)

Landlocked public656 ac (2.4%)

Elk draw pressure0.59 tags/mi² public (0.035 of total area)

Moose draw pressure0.38 tags/mi² public (0.022 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,446 mi

Maintained trails397 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road20 ac (0% of public)

Road density2.02 mi/mi²

Managed bySDOL 13k ac · SPR 10k ac · USFS 2k ac

Elevation2,040–5,170 ft

Median elevation2,780 ft

Median slope8°

Where the ground sits

2,040 ft5,170 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 26%

E 27%

S 23%

W 25%

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

1,106 ac of this unit has burned — 0% 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 SPOKANE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, 60 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · by unit

37% success

1,055 taken by 2,814 hunters · 19,480 days afield

755 bucks · 300 does

Deer hunter success · 2015–2025 · 42% → 37%

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 355% public · 3% remote Unit 655% public · 4% remote Unit 8A39% public · 2% remote Unit 479% public · 3% remote Unit 82% public · 0% remote Unit 218% public · 1% remote

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