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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2038

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 100 permits on hunt 2038 in 2026 and issued 100 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 1,601 hunters put it first and 100 drew, 6.25%.

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.
Season	Period	Area	Permits available	Put it first	Drew on first choice	First-choice draw rate	Put it second	Permits issued
2026	Second	60-1	1	178	1	0.56%	52	1
2026	First	60-1	100	1,601	100	6.25%	372	100
2025	Second	60-1	5	485	5	1.03%	91	5
2025	First	60-1	100	1,487	100	6.72%	395	100
2024	Second	60-2	7	702	7	1.00%	147	7
2024	First	60-2	120	2,117	120	5.67%	712	120
2023	Second	60-2	1	317	1	0.32%	58	1
2023	First	60-2	120	2,128	120	5.64%	724	120
2022	First	54	20	2,193	20	0.91%	1,039	20
2021	First	54	15	1,808	15	0.83%	785	15
2020	Second	55-1	2	549	2	0.36%	88	2
2020	First	55-1	50	1,132	50	4.42%	523	50
2019	First	55-1	50	1,107	50	4.52%	405	50
2018	First	52A-1	75	1,296	75	5.79%	448	75
2017	Second	52A-1	1	165	1	0.61%	44	1
2017	First	52A-1	75	1,218	75	6.16%	450	75
2016	First	60-1	30	641	30	4.68%	245	30
2015	First	60-1	30	620	30	4.84%	227	30
2014	Second	61	1	38	1	2.63%	29	1
2014	First	61	50	191	50	26.18%	151	50
2013	Second	66A-1*	3	270	3	1.11%	90	3
2013	First	66A-1*	35	969	35	3.61%	431	35
2012	Second	66A-1*	1	95	1	1.05%	30	1
2012	First	66A-1*	35	885	35	3.95%	403	35
2011	First	66A-1*	35	988	35	3.54%	424	35
2010	Second	66A-1*	2	150	2	1.33%	49	2
2010	First	66A-1*	300	1,530	300	19.61%	876	300
2009	Second	70*	1	47	1	2.13%	35	1
2009	First	70*	25	295	25	8.47%	162	25
2008	Second	70*	1	47	1	2.13%	18	1
2008	First	70*	25	273	25	9.16%	150	25
2007	Second	70*	1	42	1	2.38%	30	1
2007	First	70*	25	270	25	9.26%	173	25
2006	Second	70*	1	28	1	3.57%	27	1
2006	First	70*	25	284	25	8.80%	164	25
2005	Second	66A*	1	77	1	1.30%	91	1
2005	First	66A*	50	1,397	50	3.58%	574	50
2004	First	66A	50	1,482	50	3.37%	707	50
2003	First	66A	50	1,346	50	3.71%	704	50
2002	First	66A	50	1,284	50	3.89%	630	50
2001	First	66A	50	1,156	50	4.33%	594	50
2000	First	66A	50	1,144	50	4.37%	493	50
1999	First	66A-2	594	1,722	594	34.49%	1,017	594
1998	First	61-1	100	256	100	39.06%	191	100

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 60-1, 60-2, 54, 55-1, 52A-1, 61, 66A-1*, 70*, 66A*, 66A, 66A-2, 61-1. 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.
Season	Period	Residency	Put it first	Permits	Draw rate	What the permit count covers	IDFG's own figure
2026	Second	Resident	162	1	0.62%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2026	Second	Nonresident	16	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2026	First	Resident	1,432	93	6.49%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2026	First	Nonresident	169	7	4.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2025	Second	Resident	453	4	0.88%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2025	Second	Nonresident	32	1	3.13%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2025	First	Resident	1,356	96	7.08%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2025	First	Nonresident	131	4	3.05%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2024	Second	Resident	656	6	0.91%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2024	Second	Nonresident	46	1	2.17%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2024	First	Resident	2,045	118	5.77%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2024	First	Nonresident	72	2	2.78%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2023	Second	Resident	285	1	0.35%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	Second	Nonresident	32	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	2,034	118	5.80%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2023	First	Nonresident	94	2	2.13%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2022	First	Resident	1,742	18	1.03%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2022	First	Nonresident	451	2	0.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	1,439	14	0.97%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2021	First	Nonresident	369	1	0.27%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	Second	Resident	442	2	0.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	Second	Nonresident	107	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	First	Resident	894	45	5.03%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2020	First	Nonresident	238	5	2.10%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2019	First	Resident	912	45	4.93%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2019	First	Nonresident	195	5	2.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2018	First	Resident	1,238	71	5.74%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2018	First	Nonresident	58	4	6.90%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2017	Second	Resident	155	1	0.65%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2017	Second	Nonresident	10	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	1,170	71	6.07%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2017	First	Nonresident	48	4	8.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2016	First	Resident	598	29	4.85%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2016	First	Nonresident	43	1	2.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2015	First	Resident	578	29	5.02%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2015	First	Nonresident	42	1	2.38%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2014	Second	Resident	38	1	2.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2014	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2014	First	Resident	172	45	26.16%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	26%
2014	First	Nonresident	19	5	26.32%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	26%
2013	Second	Resident	234	3	1.28%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2013	Second	Nonresident	36	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	864	32	3.70%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2013	First	Nonresident	105	3	2.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2012	Second	Resident	80	1	1.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2012	Second	Nonresident	15	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	783	34	4.34%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2012	First	Nonresident	102	1	0.98%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2011	First	Resident	839	32	3.81%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2011	First	Nonresident	149	3	2.01%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2010	Second	Resident	124	1	0.81%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2010	Second	Nonresident	26	1	3.85%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2010	First	Resident	1,282	270	21.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	21%
2010	First	Nonresident	248	30	12.10%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2009	Second	Resident	42	1	2.38%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2009	Second	Nonresident	5	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	277	25	9.03%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2009	First	Nonresident	18	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	Second	Resident	45	1	2.22%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2008	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	249	25	10.04%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2008	First	Nonresident	24	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2007	Second	Resident	41	1	2.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2007	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2007	First	Resident	240	25	10.42%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2007	First	Nonresident	30	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	Second	Resident	18	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	Second	Nonresident	10	1	10.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2006	First	Resident	248	24	9.68%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2006	First	Nonresident	36	1	2.78%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2005	Second	Resident	62	1	1.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2005	Second	Nonresident	15	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2005	First	Resident	1,039	45	4.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2005	First	Nonresident	358	5	1.40%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2004	First	Resident	1,167	45	3.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2004	First	Nonresident	315	5	1.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2003	First	Resident	1,013	45	4.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2003	First	Nonresident	333	5	1.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2002	First	Resident	1,030	45	4.37%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2002	First	Nonresident	254	5	1.97%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2001	First	Resident	940	45	4.79%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2001	First	Nonresident	216	5	2.31%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2000	First	Resident	896	45	5.02%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2000	First	Nonresident	248	5	2.02%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
1999	First	Resident	1,454	540	37.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	37%
1999	First	Nonresident	268	54	20.15%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
1998	First	Resident	220	90	40.91%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
1998	First	Nonresident	36	10	27.78%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	27%

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 12 different area labels for elk hunt 2038 across the seasons it published (52A-1, 54, 55-1, 60-1, 60-2, 61, 61-1, 66A, 66A*, 66A-1*, 66A-2, 70*). 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

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

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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.