Washington County Hunting Guide

Washington County by hunting unit

Click a unit for its hunt numbers, harvest and season lines.

4 IDFG hunting units reach into Washington County, and Unit 32 covers the largest piece, 42% of the county. Hunters who head into Unit 31 spend nearly all of that time in Washington County.

Unit 32A touches Washington County only at its edge. The neighbour with the most shared units is Adams County: 3 of them.

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.

Washington County CWD rules and wolf zones

CWD rules for 2026 do not reach Washington County: the zone is Units 14, 18 and part of Unit 1, and testing adds Units 23, 63A, 64 and 69. The 2026 testing list changed: Units 64 and 69 in, Units 24 and 32A out. Unit 32A touches Washington County.

Washington County wolf zones, units and dates

IDFG maps Washington County into 1 wolf zone, McCall – Weiser, and sets wolf dates separately for public and private land. Wolf trapping takes a trapping license plus wolf trapper education; from July 1, 2026 trap checks may use transmitting cameras.

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.

Hunt numbers crossing into Washington County

Rows come from the 2026 draw.

The 2026 draw lists 31 hunt numbers whose units cross into the county (7 deer, 16 elk, 2 pronghorn, 1 mountain goat and 5 black bear). Together they carry 2,454 tags for 2026, but the counts are whole-hunt figures and many hunt areas are smaller than their units or spill into other counties.

The first application period for deer, elk, pronghorn and fall bear runs May 1 to June 5 and results post in early July; the draw is random. Dates for moose, sheep and goat use the month and day in the two-year brochure, set to 2026.

Washington County deer hunt numbers (7)

Elk hunts with units in Washington County (16)

Pronghorn hunts with units in Washington County (2)

Mountain goat hunts with units in Washington County (1)

Washington County black bear hunt numbers (5)

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.

Washington County forests, BLM and WMAs

Solid points on the map are places in the county; hollow ones lie just outside it.

Of every hundred acres in Washington County, about 39 are public hunting ground, 360,401 acres on the merged layers. No owner outweighs BLM land here: 216,508 acres. Roughly 113,502 forest acres in the county belong to the Weiser Ranger District (Payette National Forest), the largest of 2 districts.

Call the Four Rivers Field Office about BLM roads and closures here; its share is roughly 216,497 of 216,508 BLM acres. Idaho Department of Lands endowment land adds about 61,150 acres, kept out of the public total because recreation there is a secondary use.

Washington County hunting places with their own pages

• Four Rivers Field OfficeBLM field office

Washington County: nearby places in other counties

• Payette River Wildlife Management Area31 miles, IDFG WMA
• Willow-Oxarango (Access Yes!)31 miles, Access Yes! property
• Letha – Payette River Access (Access Yes!)39 miles, Access Yes! property

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.

Upcoming in Washington County

County total as of November 11, 2026: 2 dates ahead (DU sportsman’s bingo and RMEF chapter banquet).

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Washington County and its nearest counties

Ranked by the gap between Census interior points, these four Idaho counties lie closest; three statewide topics follow.