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Idaho · Deer · Hunt 1017

Idaho deer controlled hunt 1017

How many hunters put this controlled hunt first and how many of them drew it — season by season, for both of Idaho's application periods and both residency pools. Every figure comes from an Idaho Fish and Game response linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2026 drawing did

Idaho offered 114 permits on hunt 1017 in 2026 and issued 114 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 106 hunters put it first and 62 drew, 58.49%. A further 52 permits went to hunters who had named it as their second choice.

Idaho grants no preference for having applied before. The department is direct about it — "IDFG does not use any point system in our draw process" — and its own published data has never carried a point, preference or bonus field in the twenty-nine seasons it covers. Applying for eleven years earns exactly what applying for the first time earns. There is no points-to-draw figure on this page because there is none to publish, and any site showing you one for Idaho has invented it.

Published in 29 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 1998 to 2026.

Application period
Residency

First-choice draw rate, by season

The rate is the hunters awarded this hunt on their first choice, divided by the hunters who named it first. Both are exact integers Idaho Fish and Game returns in the same record. A dash means nobody named it first, so the drawing answered nothing — absent, not nought.
SeasonPeriodAreaPermits availablePut it firstDrew on first choiceFirst-choice draw ratePut it secondDrew on second choicePermits issued
2026First261141066258.49%12552114
2025First261571368864.71%12569157
2024First261441478557.82%13959144
2023First261311418862.41%8143131
2022First2746470646465.72%00464
2021First27no cap59442170.88%00421
2020First27no cap67939357.88%00393
2019First27no cap61237060.46%00370
2018First27no cap49030862.86%00308
2017First27no cap670670100.00%00670
2016First27no cap667667100.00%00667
2015First27no cap564564100.00%00564
2014First30518852.66%6905
2013First30519252.60%9805
2012Second3219811.02%6501
2012First3240749405.34%351040
2011Second32112310.81%3801
2011First3240705405.67%414040
2010Second32219221.04%5902
2010First3240649406.16%393040
2009First31302313012.99%159030
2008First31302723011.03%191030
2007First32A30339308.85%352030
2006Second32210022.00%5002
2006First3240512407.81%335040
2005First32A30349308.60%305030
2004First3240436409.17%287040
2003First3240455408.79%299040
2002First3240520407.69%332040
2001First3240570407.02%349040
2000First3240526407.60%400040
1999First39-120048320041.41%3160200
1998First42753617520.78%519075

Idaho draws each hunt twice. The first application period is where almost everybody applies; the second is a real second drawing for what is left. They are different competitions and nothing here averages them.

No cap is a hunt Idaho drew without a permit limit. Its data carries 99,999 and 999,999 as placeholders in the permits-available field and states nowhere what they mean, so no quota is shown rather than one of those figures.

The area label changes across seasons for this hunt number — Idaho printed 26, 27, 30, 32, 31, 32A, 39-1, 42. A controlled hunt number is reissued, and the department publishes nothing that settles whether the same number covers the same ground from one season to the next: across all its hunts, 874 of 974 numbers see its own internal area key change and 888 see the printed label change, independently of each other. So each row shows the label Idaho printed for that season and this page asserts nothing about the place.

By residency

Idaho splits both applicants and permits by residency. The applicant counts are first-choice only in every season; the permit counts are not, which is why some rates here are blank.
SeasonPeriodResidencyPut it firstPermitsDraw rateWhat the permit count coversIDFG's own figure
2026FirstResident4949100.00%first choice only100%
2026FirstNonresident571322.81%first choice only23%
2025FirstResident767598.68%first choice only99%
2025FirstNonresident601321.67%first choice only22%
2024FirstResident7272100.00%first choice only100%
2024FirstNonresident751317.33%first choice only17%
2023FirstResident7575100.00%first choice only100%
2023FirstNonresident661319.70%first choice only20%
2022FirstResident41541399.52%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2022FirstNonresident2915117.53%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree18%
2021FirstResident37237099.46%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree99%
2021FirstNonresident2225122.97%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree23%
2020FirstResident35134297.44%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree97%
2020FirstNonresident3285115.55%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree16%
2019FirstResident32931996.96%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree97%
2019FirstNonresident2835118.02%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree18%
2018FirstResident25925799.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree99%
2018FirstNonresident2315122.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree22%
2017FirstResident209209100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2017FirstNonresident461461100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2016FirstResident234234100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2016FirstNonresident433433100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2015FirstResident149149100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2015FirstNonresident415415100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2014FirstResident17242.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2014FirstNonresident1616.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2013FirstResident18052.78%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2013FirstNonresident1200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012SecondResident9711.03%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2012SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012FirstResident741405.40%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2012FirstNonresident800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011SecondResident12310.81%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2011SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011FirstResident690405.80%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2011FirstNonresident1500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010SecondResident18921.06%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2010SecondNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010FirstResident632396.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2010FirstNonresident1715.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2009FirstResident2142913.55%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2009FirstNonresident1715.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2008FirstResident2512811.16%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2008FirstNonresident2129.52%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2007FirstResident326298.90%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2007FirstNonresident1317.69%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2006SecondResident10022.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2006SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2006FirstResident489377.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2006FirstNonresident23313.04%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2005FirstResident334298.68%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2005FirstNonresident1516.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2004FirstResident421378.79%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2004FirstNonresident15320.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2003FirstResident436409.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2003FirstNonresident1900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2002FirstResident501377.39%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2002FirstNonresident19315.79%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree15%
2001FirstResident525387.24%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2001FirstNonresident4524.44%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2000FirstResident506407.91%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2000FirstNonresident2000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
1999FirstResident46018840.87%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
1999FirstNonresident231252.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree52%
1998FirstResident2636825.86%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
1998FirstNonresident9877.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%

Why some residency rates are blank. Idaho changed what its residency permit columns count around the 2019 season without renaming them. Before, they cover both application choices; from 2019, first choice only. The applicant columns are first-choice-only throughout. So on an older row where permits went to second-choice hunters, dividing one by the other counts winners the denominator never counted — on one 1998 deer hunt that arithmetic gives 250%. Rather than publish that, or pick an era and apply it to every row, this site reads which meaning each row's own totals support and leaves the rate empty where the two do not match.

IDFG's own figure is the percentage the department publishes alongside its counts. It is a rounded summary and it disagrees with its own rows: on the 1998 hunt above it reads 100. It is shown because the department publishes it and a reader will meet it elsewhere, not because it answers the question this page is about.

Where Idaho's own figures disagree with each other

  • IDFG printed 8 different area labels for deer hunt 1017 across the seasons it published (26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 32A, 39-1, 42). Neither its label nor its internal area key is an identity, so this site shows what the department printed for each season and asserts nothing about whether the ground is the same.

Nothing above is corrected. Correcting it would mean publishing a figure the department never stated.

Sources for this hunt

  • deer/2026-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2026 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2025-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2025 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2024-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2024 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2023-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2023 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2022-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2022 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2021-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2021 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2020-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2020 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2019-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2019 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2018-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2018 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2017-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2017 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2016-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2016 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2015-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2015 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2014-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2014 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2013-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2013 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2012-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2012 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2012-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2012 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2011-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2011 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2011-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2011 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2010-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2010 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2010-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2010 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2009-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2009 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2008-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2008 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2007-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2007 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2006-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2006 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2006-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2006 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2005-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2005 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2004-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2004 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2003-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2003 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2002-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2002 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2001-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2001 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2000-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2000 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/1999-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 1999 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/1998-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 1998 season, fetched 2026-09-03

Nearby hunt numbers

Idaho grants no preference to previously unsuccessful applicants, so nothing on this page accumulates and nothing here predicts next season. See how these numbers are produced and checked, or the Idaho application deadlines.