Power County Hunting Overview

Power County hunting units

Of county: how much of the county lies in the unit. Of unit: how much of the unit lies in the county.

Idaho sets big game seasons unit by unit, and Power County touches 6 of them; 33% of the county lies in Unit 73A. Units 73 and 68A only clip the edge, each under 5% of the county.

3 units straddle the line with Oneida County, more than with any other county. No general bear line in the 2026 and 2027 tables names Unit 56.

Unit shares from the IDFG Game Units layer overlaid on Census county polygons (GIS shares of land area, both ways); elk zone of each unit from the IDFG Elk Zones layer; wolf zones from the IDFG Wolf Zones layer; CWD units from the 2026 brochure; bear tables from the 2026 brochure. Checked November 12, 2026.

Chronic wasting disease and wolves in Power County

The 2026 CWD zone and testing units all lie outside Power County.

Power County wolf zones and wolf seasons

On the wolf zone layer Power County reads Southern Idaho; season dates depend on the unit and the land type. To trap a wolf, hold a trapping license and complete wolf trapper education; transmitting cameras became legal for wolf trap checks on July 1, 2026.

CWD zone, transport and testing rules from the Big Game 2026 Seasons and Rules p. 9; 2026 changes from IDFG, What hunters need to know about CWD requirements for 2026; county units from the IDFG CWD zone rules; wolf rules from the 2026 brochure; wolf zones from the IDFG Wolf Zones layer. Checked November 12, 2026.

Power County controlled hunts for 2026

Hunts whose units reach the county; the hunt area itself can be smaller than the unit.

IDFG hunt numbers with a unit in Power County add up to 37, namely 16 deer, 7 elk, 8 pronghorn and 6 moose. Their 2026 tag counts add up to 1,651, a sum that includes tags for ground outside Power County.

Idaho draws controlled hunts at random: apply May 1 to June 5 for deer, elk, pronghorn and fall bear, April 1 to 30 for moose, sheep and goat. Moose, bighorn sheep and goat hunts below follow the 2025 and 2026 brochure (2026 season).

Deer draws reaching Power County (16)

Power County: controlled elk (7)

Power County: controlled pronghorn (8)

Moose tags drawn around Power County (6)

Hunt numbers, types, units, dates, bags and 2026 tags from the IDFG Hunt Planner hunt pages (each hunt number links its page) matched to the Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons and Rules and the Moose, Bighorn Sheep and Mountain Goat 2025 and 2026 brochure; counties are whole units, so a hunt area can be smaller. Application periods from the 2026 brochure, the moose, sheep and goat brochure and the spring bear page. Checked November 12, 2026.

Power County public land, owner by owner

Private land in Access Yes! and Large Tracts is open only on program terms.

The merged map of public hunting land in Power County reaches 261,869 acres, 29% of the county surface. No owner outweighs BLM land here: 193,937 acres. For forest roads, fire closures and camping rules, the Minidoka Ranger District covers about 28,162 acres of the county.

193,937 acres are BLM-managed, and 83,450 of those report to the Pocatello Field Office. Endowment land (24,713 GIS acres) sits outside the merged total; the IDFG brochure lists it among its access programs. The 156,031 acres of reservation and trust land are not public hunting ground; entering them to hunt without tribal permission is unlawful. National Park Service land (Craters of the Moon National Preserve) is closed to hunting.

Reservations inside Power County

• Fort Hall Reservation156,031 GIS acres · closed

Power County public places by owner

• Caribou-Targhee National ForestNational forest
• Sawtooth National ForestNational forest
• Minidoka Ranger DistrictRanger district
• Westside Ranger DistrictRanger district
• Twin Falls DistrictBLM district
• Idaho Falls DistrictBLM district
• Upper Snake Field OfficeBLM field office
• Shoshone Field OfficeBLM field office
• Burley Field OfficeBLM field office
• Pocatello Field OfficeBLM field office
• Craters of The Moon National Monument (BLM part)BLM part of the monument
• Craters of the Moon National PreserveNational preserve

Open land a short drive from Power County

• Access Yes! property 608914 miles, Access Yes! property
• Sterling Wildlife Management Area20 miles, IDFG WMA
• Daniels Valley (Access Yes!)28 miles, Access Yes! property
• Pocatello – 2 and 1/2 Mile Road (Access Yes!)30 miles, Access Yes! property
• Portneuf Wildlife Management Area34 miles, IDFG WMA
• Inkom – East Bench (Access Yes!)34 miles, Access Yes! property

Power County ground off the hunting map

• Massacre Rocks State ParkState park, closed

Acres are GIS measures of polygons with water over 2 square km removed, not official acreage: IDFG WMA layer, PAD-US 4.1 (forest, grassland, BLM, refuge, park, endowment, Reclamation, military, DOE and tribal land), IDFG Access Yes! 2026 layer, IDFG Large Tracts layer; refuges counted only when listed in 50 CFR 32.31; tribal rule from 18 U.S.C. 1165; closures from the 2026 brochure; Craters of the Moon from the NPS laws and policies page. Checked November 12, 2026.

Power County sunrise and shooting times

The dates in this Power County table come from the season lines that reach its own units, plus the shortest day of the year.

Shown in Mountain Time.

Hours rule from the Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons and Rules (wolf and upland game animals: same rule, wolf, upland); time zone from 49 CFR 71.9; sunrise and sunset worked out for this location with the NOAA solar formula (Mountain Time); migratory bird hours: IDFG migratory bird table; checked November 12, 2026. Legal hours for every county.

Power County and its nearest counties

The four cards are the counties whose middles sit nearest this one; the buttons open statewide topics.