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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2081

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 650 permits on hunt 2081 in 2026 and issued 650 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 1,764 hunters put it first and 650 drew, 36.85%.

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	Drew on second choice	Permits issued
2026	Second	39-1	49	653	49	7.50%	153	0	49
2026	First	39-1	650	1,764	650	36.85%	696	0	650
2025	Second	39-1	39	525	39	7.43%	172	0	39
2025	First	39-1	650	1,669	650	38.95%	694	0	650
2024	Second	40-1	10	313	10	3.19%	101	0	10
2024	First	40-1	150	658	150	22.80%	419	0	150
2023	Second	40-1	2	187	2	1.07%	52	0	2
2023	First	40-1	150	720	150	20.83%	359	0	150
2022	Second	36B-1	9	6	6	100.00%	12	3	9
2022	First	36B-1	100	75	75	100.00%	57	25	100
2021	Second	36B-1	13	22	13	59.09%	11	0	13
2021	First	36B-1	100	80	80	100.00%	56	20	100
2020	Second	36-1	27	42	27	64.29%	16	0	27
2020	First	36-1	200	114	114	100.00%	107	64	178
2019	Second	36-1	139	15	15	100.00%	9	9	24
2019	First	36-1	200	50	50	100.00%	40	23	73
2018	Second	23-3	2	20	2	10.00%	5	0	2
2018	First	23-3	25	81	25	30.86%	38	0	25
2017	Second	23-3	2	33	2	6.06%	8	0	2
2017	First	23-3	25	98	25	25.51%	30	0	25
2016	Second	30	7	112	7	6.25%	22	0	7
2016	First	30	160	321	160	49.84%	184	0	160
2015	Second	30	6	83	6	7.23%	27	0	6
2015	First	30	160	353	160	45.33%	198	0	160
2014	Second	31-1	9	69	9	13.04%	32	0	9
2014	First	31-1	200	260	200	76.92%	190	0	200
2013	Second	32-1	15	37	15	40.54%	11	0	15
2013	First	32-1	250	243	243	100.00%	123	7	250
2012	Second	32A-1	7	117	7	5.98%	59	0	7
2012	First	32A-1	100	302	100	33.11%	274	0	100
2011	Second	32A-1	16	58	16	27.59%	55	0	16
2011	First	32A-1	200	282	200	70.92%	232	0	200
2010	First	36A-2*	25	60	25	41.67%	82	0	25
2009	Second	37	6	17	6	35.29%	17	0	6
2009	First	37	75	86	75	87.21%	113	0	75
2008	Second	32A	4	104	4	3.85%	49	0	4
2008	First	32A	100	523	100	19.12%	305	0	100
2007	Second	32A	6	113	6	5.31%	63	0	6
2007	First	32A	100	523	100	19.12%	296	0	100
2006	Second	32A	9	83	9	10.84%	57	0	9
2006	First	32A	100	338	100	29.59%	235	0	100
2005	Second	33-1	9	17	9	52.94%	9	0	9
2005	First	33-1	100	121	100	82.64%	69	0	100
2004	Second	36-1	5	25	5	20.00%	7	0	5
2004	First	36-1	100	163	100	61.35%	62	0	100
2003	First	36A-1	150	62	62	100.00%	121	63	125
2002	First	36A-2	250	70	70	100.00%	210	51	121
2001	First	36A-2	250	150	150	100.00%	152	58	208
2000	First	36A-2	200	85	85	100.00%	145	42	127
1999	First	32-1	100	66	66	100.00%	94	34	100
1998	First	31-3	200	251	200	79.68%	379	0	200

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 39-1, 40-1, 36B-1, 36-1, 23-3, 30, 31-1, 32-1, 32A-1, 36A-2*, 37, 32A, 33-1, 36A-1, 36A-2, 31-3. 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	604	46	7.62%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2026	Second	Nonresident	49	3	6.12%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2026	First	Resident	1,598	587	36.73%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	37%
2026	First	Nonresident	166	63	37.95%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2025	Second	Resident	491	36	7.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2025	Second	Nonresident	34	3	8.82%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2025	First	Resident	1,558	599	38.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2025	First	Nonresident	111	51	45.95%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	46%
2024	Second	Resident	297	8	2.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2024	Second	Nonresident	16	2	12.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2024	First	Resident	634	146	23.03%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2024	First	Nonresident	24	4	16.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2023	Second	Resident	183	2	1.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2023	Second	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	696	146	20.98%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	21%
2023	First	Nonresident	24	4	16.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2022	Second	Resident	6	6	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2022	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2022	First	Resident	65	65	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2022	First	Nonresident	10	10	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2021	Second	Resident	19	10	52.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	53%
2021	Second	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2021	First	Resident	78	78	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2021	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2020	Second	Resident	38	26	68.42%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	68%
2020	Second	Nonresident	4	1	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2020	First	Resident	102	102	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2020	First	Nonresident	12	12	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2019	Second	Resident	13	13	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2019	Second	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2019	First	Resident	48	48	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2019	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2018	Second	Resident	20	2	10.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2018	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	81	25	30.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	31%
2018	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	Second	Resident	33	2	6.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2017	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	96	24	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2017	First	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2016	Second	Resident	109	7	6.42%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2016	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	First	Resident	306	151	49.35%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	49%
2016	First	Nonresident	15	9	60.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	60%
2015	Second	Resident	79	6	7.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2015	Second	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	First	Resident	342	155	45.32%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	45%
2015	First	Nonresident	11	5	45.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	45%
2014	Second	Resident	69	9	13.04%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2014	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2014	First	Resident	248	190	76.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	77%
2014	First	Nonresident	12	10	83.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	83%
2013	Second	Resident	36	15	41.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	42%
2013	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	240	247	—	both draw choices	100%
2013	First	Nonresident	3	3	—	both draw choices	100%
2012	Second	Resident	115	7	6.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2012	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	295	98	33.22%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2012	First	Nonresident	7	2	28.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2011	Second	Resident	58	16	27.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
2011	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	271	190	70.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	70%
2011	First	Nonresident	11	10	90.91%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	91%
2010	First	Resident	57	23	40.35%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2010	First	Nonresident	3	2	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2009	Second	Resident	17	6	35.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	35%
2009	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	80	69	86.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	86%
2009	First	Nonresident	6	6	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2008	Second	Resident	102	4	3.92%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2008	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	519	100	19.27%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	19%
2008	First	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2007	Second	Resident	111	6	5.41%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2007	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2007	First	Resident	515	99	19.22%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	19%
2007	First	Nonresident	8	1	12.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2006	Second	Resident	77	9	11.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2006	Second	Nonresident	6	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	First	Resident	325	92	28.31%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
2006	First	Nonresident	13	8	61.54%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	62%
2005	Second	Resident	17	9	52.94%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	53%
2005	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2005	First	Resident	121	100	82.64%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	83%
2005	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2004	Second	Resident	25	5	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2004	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2004	First	Resident	160	98	61.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	61%
2004	First	Nonresident	3	2	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	66%
2003	First	Resident	48	110	—	both draw choices	100%
2003	First	Nonresident	14	15	—	both draw choices	100%
2002	First	Resident	65	115	—	both draw choices	100%
2002	First	Nonresident	5	6	—	both draw choices	100%
2001	First	Resident	141	198	—	both draw choices	100%
2001	First	Nonresident	9	10	—	both draw choices	100%
2000	First	Resident	83	124	—	both draw choices	100%
2000	First	Nonresident	2	3	—	both draw choices	100%
1999	First	Resident	66	100	—	both draw choices	100%
1999	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	100%
1998	First	Resident	250	200	80.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	80%
1998	First	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%

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.

At least one row here has hunters who applied and no rate. That is the case above, and the "what the permit count covers" column says which.

Where Idaho's own figures disagree with each other

IDFG printed 16 different area labels for elk hunt 2081 across the seasons it published (23-3, 30, 31-1, 31-3, 32-1, 32A, 32A-1, 33-1, 36-1, 36A-1, 36A-2, 36A-2*, 36B-1, 37, 39-1, 40-1). 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

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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2022 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2021 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2019 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2018 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2016 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2015 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2011 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-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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2004 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.