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Utah deer with 18 preference points

What applicants holding exactly 18 preference points actually drew, across every Utah deer hunt that reported at this level. Ranked by observed success, best first. This is a record of past draws, not a prediction of the next.

Preference points only. Utah's limited-entry and once-in-a-lifetime draws use bonus points, which are weighted lottery tickets rather than places in a queue. There is no honest "what does 18 bonus points get you" answer, so this page does not attempt one. Those hunts are on the deer index with their full ladders.

What 18 points did

5 Utah deer hunts reported applicants holding exactly 18 preference points, covering 6 applicants in total. Everyone holding this many points drew.

The figures below come from 3 different years, 2020 to 2025, because a hunt reports at this level only in the years somebody held these points and applied for it. Each row says which year it is. Nothing here is averaged across years, and nothing is carried forward into a year the division has not published.

5 hunts at this level

**Every figure here counts first-choice applications only.** That is the division's own statement on the page it publishes these reports from: they "only reflect hunters' first-choice selections." Utah runs five choices and publishes odds for none of the other four, because they are affected by residency, youth status, group applications, Dedicated Hunter selections and weapon type. So a hunt you would rank second or lower is not described by anything below.

The most recent year each hunt reported at this level, which is not the same year for every row — the year is shown. A dash is the division's own *N/A*: no permits were issued at this level, which is an absent measurement rather than zero odds.
Hunt	Year	Resident applicants	Resident success	Nonresident applicants	Nonresident success
DB1516 Panguitch Lake - Archery	2025	—	—	2	100.0%
DB1518 Plateau, Boulder/kaiparowits - Archery	2021	—	—	1	100.0%
DB1547 Pine Valley - Any Legal Weapon	2021	—	—	1	100.0%
DB1550 Plateau, Thousand Lakes - Any Legal Weapon	2020	—	—	1	100.0%
DB1596 Plateau, Fishlake - Any Legal Weapon	2025	—	—	1	100.0%

Success is the division's 1 in N ratio as a percentage — permits issued over eligible applicants at this level, in that hunt, that year.

Other point levels

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Latest year published: 2025. Utah has published no 2026 report. See all Utah deer hunts, every Utah species, or how these numbers are checked.