Coverage
States
All nine states carry a deadline page, each date read off the agency's own documents and stamped with the day it was checked. Odds tables are a separate job, and a state gets one only after its numbers have been verified the same way — until then it's listed honestly as unfinished.
Odds and harvest states
These states publish enough detail to answer the question properly — point-level draw outcomes, or in Alaska's case, decades of harvest results. The status against each one is the odds work, not the deadlines: every state below already has its deadline page live.
- Wyoming — Point-level odds by residency, with the Regular and Special draws reported separately. 352 hunt areas, 2021 and 2023-2026. Application deadlines.
- Alaska — Fifty years of queryable harvest outcomes by game management unit. No point system, and a draw that applies in November for the following year. Application deadlines.
- Utah — Point-level odds by residency and permit pool, 2016-2025, with Utah’s preference and bonus draws kept apart. Application deadlines.
- New Mexico — No point system at all, so no points-to-draw figure exists anywhere. What the department publishes instead is a choice rank on both sides of the draw, which gives a first-choice draw rate per hunt code. 1,339 hunt codes, 2019-2026, split resident, nonresident and outfitter. Application deadlines.
- Montana — Two point systems that have nothing to do with each other. Bonus points cover every drawn species and are squared into extra chances, so no level guarantees a licence — the draw rate at each level is published instead. Preference points apply to nonresident combination licences alone and are a statutory queue, so there the guaranteed band is real and is published. 1,633 licence codes, 2006-2026, four applicant pools kept apart. Application deadlines.
- Idaho — A pure random draw with no point system at all — confirmed in the department’s own words and in the shape of its data, which has never carried a point field in twenty-nine seasons — so the published odds are the complete answer rather than one input to it. Every hunt is drawn twice, in two application periods published separately. 974 controlled hunts, 1998–2026, the longest run on this site. Application deadlines.
- Arizona — A three-pass draw in which bonus points buy extra random numbers rather than a place in a queue — only the first pass, 20 per cent of each hunt’s permits, goes out in point order at all, and it is closed to anyone holding none. So no level guarantees a tag and none is published: on 279 of 1,297 pools with three or more occupied levels, somebody holding more points than the lowest level that drew clean went home empty. The draw rate at each level is published instead. 556 hunt numbers across three separate draws, 2024–2026. Application deadlines.
States with deadline coverage only
These states get deadline and application coverage, but no odds tables. The reason differs by state, and is worth stating plainly rather than hiding behind one blanket sentence.
Our standing rule is that a state which doesn't publish results broken down by point level and residency cannot support an accurate point-level odds figure, and we won't invent one. Sites that show one anyway are either publishing pooled odds — total applicants divided by total tags, which answers a different question — or estimating. We do neither.
As it happens, that rule is not what keeps any of the three states below off the odds tables. All three publish the breakdown. What stops us in each case is our own unfinished work or an unsettled question about access and redistribution, and that is said plainly rather than dressed up as the state's shortcoming.
- NevadaNevada publishes point-level bonus point data for every big game species, split resident and nonresident on the volume species. The obstacle here is access, not availability: the department disallows automated agents site-wide except three named search engine crawlers, so whether we may build from those files is an unresolved terms question — the same one Colorado is in. Application deadlines.
- ColoradoColorado publishes detailed draw statistics, but they are served from a vendor CDN that blocks automated retrieval, and the historical archive carries a non-commercial label. Until access and redistribution terms are settled properly rather than assumed, Colorado gets deadlines only — that is a rights question, not a data gap. Application deadlines.