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Idaho · Elk · Hunt 2152

Idaho elk controlled hunt 2152

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 150 permits on hunt 2152 in 2026 and issued 124, so it did not fill. In the first application period, 93 hunters put it first and 93 drew, 100.00%. A further 31 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 22 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 2004 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
2026Second22-1322929100.00%12231
2026First22-11509393100.00%6131124
2025Second22-1473030100.00%13131
2025First22-11508585100.00%4124109
2024First54502615019.16%63050
2023First54502065024.27%64050
2022Second3012150.00%201
2022First3025262596.15%10025
2021First3025422559.52%11025
2020Second316116.67%301
2020First325552545.45%34025
2019Second315120.00%401
2019First325382565.79%40025
2018Second1847245.56%804
2018First18753097524.27%75075
2017Second1837833.85%1003
2017First18752687527.99%40075
2016Second11325312.00%803
2016First1150464393.48%69750
2015Second11828828.57%408
2015First1150393589.74%881550
2014Second11-110231043.48%16010
2014First11-1503737100.00%471350
2013First5410561101.78%126010
2012Second6120562035.71%13020
2012First61200102102100.00%15898200
2011Second6128362877.78%30028
2011First61200118118100.00%13376194
2010First49812866.67%008
2008First18611100.00%223
2007First18600—000
2006First36A300—000
2005First66A*1277100.00%007
2004First66A999100.00%109

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 22-1, 54, 30, 3, 18, 11, 11-1, 61, 49, 36A, 66A*, 66A. 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
2026SecondResident2929100.00%first choice only100%
2026SecondNonresident00—first choice only0%
2026FirstResident9090100.00%first choice only100%
2026FirstNonresident33100.00%first choice only100%
2025SecondResident3030100.00%first choice only100%
2025SecondNonresident00—first choice only0%
2025FirstResident8585100.00%first choice only100%
2025FirstNonresident00—first choice only0%
2024FirstResident2324519.40%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2024FirstNonresident29517.24%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2023FirstResident1884523.94%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree24%
2023FirstNonresident18527.78%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree28%
2022SecondResident2150.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2022SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022FirstResident262596.15%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree96%
2022FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021FirstResident412458.54%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree59%
2021FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2020SecondResident5120.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2020SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident522548.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree48%
2020FirstNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019SecondResident5120.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2019SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019FirstResident352468.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree69%
2019FirstNonresident3133.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2018SecondResident5447.41%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2018SecondNonresident1800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident1946835.05%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree35%
2018FirstNonresident11576.09%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2017SecondResident6123.28%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2017SecondNonresident1715.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2017FirstResident2006834.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree34%
2017FirstNonresident68710.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2016SecondResident18211.11%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2016SecondNonresident7114.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2016FirstResident3946—both draw choices100%
2016FirstNonresident74—both draw choices57%
2015SecondResident24729.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2015SecondNonresident4125.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2015FirstResident3045—both draw choices100%
2015FirstNonresident95—both draw choices56%
2014SecondResident211047.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree48%
2014SecondNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident3245—both draw choices100%
2014FirstNonresident55—both draw choices100%
2013FirstResident49891.81%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2013FirstNonresident6311.59%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2012SecondResident481939.58%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2012SecondNonresident8112.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2012FirstResident99195—both draw choices100%
2012FirstNonresident35—both draw choices100%
2011SecondResident362877.78%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree78%
2011SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011FirstResident109182—both draw choices100%
2011FirstNonresident912—both draw choices100%
2010FirstResident44100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2010FirstNonresident8450.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2008FirstResident13—both draw choices100%
2008FirstNonresident00—both draw choices0%
2007FirstResident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2006FirstResident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2006FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005FirstResident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2005FirstNonresident66100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2004FirstResident33100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2004FirstNonresident66100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%

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 12 different area labels for elk hunt 2152 across the seasons it published (11, 11-1, 18, 22-1, 3, 30, 36A, 49, 54, 61, 66A, 66A*). 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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2024 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-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-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/2008-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2008 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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2006 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

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.