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Idaho deer controlled hunt 1027

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 5 permits on hunt 1027 in 2026 and issued 5 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 632 hunters put it first and 5 drew, 0.79%.

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
2026First36B563250.79%21705
2025First36B560350.83%18505
2024First36B553550.93%17605
2023First36B560450.83%14905
2022First38-1535514.29%2505
2021First38-1547510.64%1405
2020First38-1541512.20%1405
2019Second38-122827.14%902
2019First38-1531516.13%1905
2018First38-1530516.67%2505
2017First38-1519526.32%1505
2016First38-1523521.74%1805
2015First38-1525520.00%4005
2014Second41-1428641.40%13504
2014First41-110067510014.81%6020100
2013Second41-1317131.75%11403
2013First41-110074410013.44%5960100
2012Second47-129322.15%2802
2012First47-1904679019.27%257090
2011First47-2*10161106.21%139010
2010First47-2*10205104.88%147010
2009Second47-116111.64%1601
2009First47-1903599025.07%225090
2008Second47-112015.00%1501
2008First47-1902299039.30%258090
2007Second4911915.26%1001
2007First4910631015.87%127010
2006First4810691014.49%112010
2005Second4813412.94%1801
2005First4810731013.70%63010
2004Second47-124224.76%3002
2004First47-1901839049.18%181090
2003First47-1901829049.45%173090
2002First47-1901579057.32%148090
2001First47-1902199041.10%226090
2000First47-1902289039.47%205090
1999First4810651015.38%59010
1998First52-1755177514.51%242075

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.

The area label changes across seasons for this hunt number — Idaho printed 36B, 38-1, 41-1, 47-1, 47-2*, 49, 48, 52-1. 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
2026FirstResident49751.01%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2026FirstNonresident13500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2025FirstResident52150.96%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2025FirstNonresident8200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2024FirstResident44040.91%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2024FirstNonresident9511.05%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2023FirstResident50950.98%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2023FirstNonresident9500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022FirstResident35514.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2022FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021FirstResident46510.87%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2021FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident40512.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2020FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019SecondResident2827.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2019SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019FirstResident31516.13%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree16%
2019FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident30516.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2018FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident19526.32%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree26%
2017FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident22522.73%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree23%
2016FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident25520.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2015FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014SecondResident27541.45%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2014SecondNonresident1100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident6119014.73%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree15%
2014FirstNonresident641015.63%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree16%
2013SecondResident16231.85%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2013SecondNonresident900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident6799313.70%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2013FirstNonresident65710.77%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2012SecondResident8511.18%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2012SecondNonresident8112.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2012FirstResident4328118.75%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2012FirstNonresident35925.71%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree26%
2011FirstResident151106.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2011FirstNonresident1000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010FirstResident195105.13%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2010FirstNonresident1000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009SecondResident5511.82%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2009SecondNonresident600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009FirstResident3298124.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2009FirstNonresident30930.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree30%
2008SecondResident1700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2008SecondNonresident3133.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2008FirstResident2058340.49%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2008FirstNonresident24729.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2007SecondResident1915.26%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2007SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007FirstResident621016.13%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree16%
2007FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2006FirstResident62914.52%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree15%
2006FirstNonresident7114.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2005SecondResident3113.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2005SecondNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005FirstResident711014.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2005FirstNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2004SecondResident4124.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2004SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2004FirstResident1698349.11%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree49%
2004FirstNonresident14750.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2003FirstResident1638149.69%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree49%
2003FirstNonresident19947.37%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree47%
2002FirstResident1438257.34%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree57%
2002FirstNonresident14857.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree57%
2001FirstResident2058541.46%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree41%
2001FirstNonresident14535.71%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree35%
2000FirstResident2118138.39%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree38%
2000FirstNonresident17952.94%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree52%
1999FirstResident631015.87%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree15%
1999FirstNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
1998FirstResident4957214.55%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
1998FirstNonresident22313.64%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%

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 1027 across the seasons it published (36B, 38-1, 41-1, 47-1, 47-2*, 48, 49, 52-1). 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2019 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2014 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2013 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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2011 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2009 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2008 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2007 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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2006 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2005-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2005 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2004 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.