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Unit 54 — Idaho

59% public across 874,028 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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Deer draw odds (4)Elk draw odds (5)Moose draw odds (2)Pronghorn draw odds (3)Turkey draw odds (3)Odds and pins: free, no account

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3,630–8,050 ft

elevation range

59%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

3,257 ac

landlocked public

2.08

road miles per mi²

1,024 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

17 limited-entry deer, elk, moose, pronghorn and turkey hunts are drawn on Unit 54: 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 · 5 draw hunts (2026)$43.00 resident · $669.75 nonresident

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

Pronghorn tag · 3 draw hunts (2026)$42.75 resident · $360.75 nonresident

Turkey tag · 3 draw hunts (2026)$29.00 resident · $106.00 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, pronghorn and turkey draw calendar

Feb 1, 2027 — applications open
Mar 1, 2027 — application deadline
Apr 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 →Draw odds for Idaho turkey →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 35%■ BLM 23%■ SDOL 2%□ Private 41%

Unit area874,028 ac

Public land518,277 ac (59%)

Landlocked public3,257 ac (0.6%)

Deer draw pressure0.81 tags/mi² public (0.48 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.29 tags/mi² public (0.17 of total area)

Moose draw pressure0.007 tags/mi² public (0.004 of total area)

Pronghorn draw pressure0.093 tags/mi² public (0.055 of total area)

Turkey draw pressure0.062 tags/mi² public (0.037 of total area)

Walk-in access4,317 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,845 mi

Maintained trails1,024 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road16,615 ac (3% of public)

Road density2.08 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 302k ac · BLM 199k ac · SDOL 15k ac

Elevation3,630–8,050 ft

Median elevation5,450 ft

Median slope4°

Where the ground sits

3,630 ft8,050 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 22%

E 30%

S 17%

W 31%

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

234,327 ac of this unit has burned — 27% 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 BURLEY MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, 51 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

18% success

10 taken by 56 hunters · 164 days afield

10 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2015–2025 · 15% → 18%

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 nextFeb 1 — Turkey applications open · details →Mar 1 — Turkey application deadline · details →Apr 1 — Moose applications open · details →