Idaho · Elk · Hunt 2153

Idaho elk controlled hunt 2153

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 2153 in 2026 and issued 66, so it did not fill. In the first application period, 54 hunters put it first and 54 drew, 100.00%. A further 12 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 20 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 2006 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	22-1	88	27	27	100.00%	19	4	31
2026	First	22-1	150	54	54	100.00%	51	12	66
2025	Second	22-1	113	24	24	100.00%	15	3	27
2025	First	22-1	150	27	27	100.00%	47	13	40
2024	Second	60-1	5	25	5	20.00%	4	0	5
2024	First	60-1	100	134	100	74.63%	54	0	100
2023	Second	60-1	3	15	3	20.00%	2	0	3
2023	First	60-1	100	131	100	76.34%	44	0	100
2022	Second	37	1	2	1	50.00%	0	0	1
2022	First	37	25	29	25	86.21%	4	0	25
2021	Second	37	1	4	1	25.00%	0	0	1
2021	First	37	25	31	25	80.65%	8	0	25
2020	First	4	25	70	25	35.71%	35	0	25
2019	Second	4	2	16	2	12.50%	3	0	2
2019	First	4	25	73	25	34.25%	29	0	25
2018	First	39	25	416	25	6.01%	138	0	25
2017	Second	39	2	106	2	1.89%	15	0	2
2017	First	39	25	310	25	8.06%	108	0	25
2016	Second	22	57	40	40	100.00%	16	12	52
2016	First	22	150	45	45	100.00%	98	59	104
2015	Second	22	36	26	26	100.00%	11	8	34
2015	First	22	150	56	56	100.00%	95	69	125
2014	Second	22-3	53	27	27	100.00%	17	11	38
2014	First	22-3	150	55	55	100.00%	96	55	110
2013	First	55-2	5	57	5	8.77%	51	0	5
2012	Second	62-1*	9	10	9	90.00%	1	0	9
2012	First	62-1*	25	12	12	100.00%	6	4	16
2011	Second	62-1*	13	6	6	100.00%	1	1	7
2011	First	62-1*	25	6	6	100.00%	8	7	13
2010	First	50-1	4	3	3	100.00%	0	0	3
2008	First	28	5	0	0	—	0	0	0
2007	First	28	5	1	1	100.00%	0	0	1
2006	First	37A	6	6	6	100.00%	1	0	6

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, 60-1, 37, 4, 39, 22, 22-3, 55-2, 62-1*, 50-1, 28, 37A. 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	27	27	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2026	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2026	First	Resident	53	53	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2026	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	Second	Resident	24	24	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2025	First	Resident	27	27	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2024	Second	Resident	25	5	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2024	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2024	First	Resident	134	100	74.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	75%
2024	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	Second	Resident	15	3	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2023	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	129	99	76.74%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	77%
2023	First	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2022	Second	Resident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2022	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	27	24	88.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	89%
2022	First	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2021	Second	Resident	4	1	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2021	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	28	24	85.71%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	86%
2021	First	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2020	First	Resident	65	23	35.38%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	35%
2020	First	Nonresident	5	2	40.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2019	Second	Resident	15	1	6.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2019	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2019	First	Resident	71	23	32.39%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	32%
2019	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2018	First	Resident	384	23	5.99%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2018	First	Nonresident	32	2	6.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2017	Second	Resident	106	2	1.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2017	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	293	25	8.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2017	First	Nonresident	17	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	Second	Resident	37	47	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	Second	Nonresident	3	5	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	First	Resident	42	100	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	First	Nonresident	3	4	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	Second	Resident	24	32	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	Second	Nonresident	2	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	First	Resident	54	121	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	First	Nonresident	2	4	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	Second	Resident	26	37	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	Second	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	First	Resident	54	106	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	First	Nonresident	1	4	—	both draw choices	100%
2013	First	Resident	50	5	10.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2013	First	Nonresident	7	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	Second	Resident	10	9	90.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	90%
2012	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	10	14	—	both draw choices	100%
2012	First	Nonresident	2	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2011	Second	Resident	6	7	—	both draw choices	100%
2011	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2011	First	Resident	5	12	—	both draw choices	100%
2011	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2010	First	Resident	3	3	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2010	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2007	First	Resident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2007	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	First	Resident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	First	Nonresident	6	6	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%

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 2153 across the seasons it published (22, 22-1, 22-3, 28, 37, 37A, 39, 4, 50-1, 55-2, 60-1, 62-1*). 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-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-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

Nearby hunt numbers

Hunt 2148 Hunt 2149 Hunt 2150 Hunt 2151 Hunt 2152 Hunt 2154 Hunt 2155 Hunt 2156 Hunt 2157 Hunt 2158 All Idaho elk All Idaho species

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.