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Idaho hunting units

All 99 IDFG hunting units by region, with counties, elk zone, wolf zone, CWD status and the number of controlled hunts in each.

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28Elk zones

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Idaho units, numbers and the zones laid over them

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game sets deer, elk, pronghorn, moose, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, black bear, mountain lion, wolf and turkey seasons by hunting unit. The Hunt Planner lists 99 units, numbered 1 to 78, and 21 of them carry a letter, such as Unit 4A, Unit 8A and Unit 10A. IDFG gives the units numbers and no names, so every page here calls a unit by its number. A hundredth polygon on the IDFG Game Units layer is Yellowstone National Park, which is not a hunting unit and has no page.

Unit lines follow ridges, rivers and roads rather than county lines, so 68 of the 99 units cross into more than one county; Unit 53 reaches 8. By the acreage printed on the Hunt Planner for whole-unit hunts, Unit 46 is the largest at 1,699,700 acres and Unit 9 the smallest at 129,273. Unit 36A sits inside the most controlled hunt areas, 23 hunt numbers in 2026.

Three layers of zones sit on top of the units. General elk tags are sold for 28 elk zones as an A tag or a B tag, and each zone groups one or more units. Wolf data are kept for 13 wolf zones, but wolf seasons are written unit by unit and by public or private land. The CWD Management Zone covers Units 14 and 18 and the part of Unit 1 in Boundary County east of the Selkirk Mountains crest, and mandatory deer testing also applies in Units 23, 63A, 64 and 69. Units 64 and 69 joined the testing list for 2026, while Units 24 and 32A came off it.

Each unit page lists its counties with both shares (how much of the unit lies in each county and how much of each county the unit covers), its IDFG region and office, its elk zone with the A and B tag lines, its wolf zone and CWD status, every general season line and every controlled hunt with dates, bag, 2026 tags and the brochure page, five seasons of Hunt Planner harvest, the public land records that list it and the towns inside or within 10 miles.

99Hunting units

7IDFG regions

28Elk zones

13Wolf zones

614Hunt numbers

14, 18, part of 1CWD zone units

Units, regions and elk zones from the IDFG Hunt Planner unit pages; polygons from the IDFG Game Units layer; wolf zones from the IDFG Wolf Zones layer; CWD from the Big Game 2026 Seasons and Rules p. 9 and IDFG 2026 CWD article; hunt numbers from the Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons and Rules; checked November 12, 2026.

Every Idaho hunting unit, 99 in a filterable list

Sorted by IDFG region, then by unit number. Counties are listed largest share of the unit first; the hunt count includes every 2026 controlled hunt whose area reaches the unit.

Unit	IDFG region	Counties	Elk zone	Wolf zone	CWD	Hunts
Unit 1	Panhandle	Boundary Bonner	Panhandle Zone	Panhandle	Part zone	21
Unit 2	Panhandle	Bonner Kootenai	Panhandle Zone	Panhandle	—	8
Unit 3	Panhandle	Kootenai Shoshone	Panhandle Zone	Panhandle	—	10
Unit 4	Panhandle	Shoshone Kootenai Bonner + more	Panhandle Zone	Panhandle	—	7
Unit 4A	Panhandle	Bonner Kootenai	Panhandle Zone	Panhandle	—	4
Unit 5	Panhandle	Benewah Kootenai	Panhandle Zone	Panhandle	—	9
Unit 6	Panhandle	Shoshone Benewah Latah + more	Panhandle Zone	Panhandle	—	7
Unit 7	Panhandle	Shoshone	Panhandle Zone	Panhandle	—	6
Unit 9	Panhandle	Shoshone	Panhandle Zone	Panhandle	—	6
Unit 8	Clearwater	Latah Nez Perce Clearwater	Palouse Zone	Palouse – Hells Canyon	—	3
Unit 8A	Clearwater	Latah Clearwater Benewah + more	Palouse Zone	Palouse – Hells Canyon	—	4
Unit 10	Clearwater	Clearwater Idaho Shoshone	Lolo Zone	Lolo	—	7
Unit 10A	Clearwater	Clearwater Idaho Shoshone	Dworshak Zone	Dworshak – Elk City	—	9
Unit 11	Clearwater	Nez Perce Lewis Idaho	Hells Canyon Zone	Palouse – Hells Canyon	—	7
Unit 11A	Clearwater	Idaho Lewis Nez Perce + more	Palouse Zone	Palouse – Hells Canyon	—	6
Unit 12	Clearwater	Idaho Clearwater	Lolo Zone	Lolo	—	5
Unit 13	Clearwater	Idaho	Hells Canyon Zone	Palouse – Hells Canyon	—	6
Unit 14	Clearwater	Idaho	Elk City Zone	Dworshak – Elk City	Zone	9
Unit 15	Clearwater	Idaho	Elk City Zone	Dworshak – Elk City	—	1
Unit 16	Clearwater	Idaho	Elk City Zone	Dworshak – Elk City	—	3
Unit 16A	Clearwater	Idaho	Selway Zone	Selway	—	1
Unit 17	Clearwater	Idaho	Selway Zone	Selway	—	2
Unit 18	Clearwater	Idaho Adams	Hells Canyon Zone	Palouse – Hells Canyon	Zone	12
Unit 19	Clearwater	Idaho	Selway Zone	Selway	—	1
Unit 20	Clearwater	Idaho	Selway Zone	Selway	—	2
Unit 19A	Southwest	Idaho Valley	McCall Zone	McCall – Weiser	—	5
Unit 20A	Southwest	Idaho Valley	Middle Fork Zone	Middle Fork	—	5
Unit 22	Southwest	Adams Washington	Weiser River Zone	McCall – Weiser	—	14
Unit 23	Southwest	Idaho Adams	McCall Zone	McCall – Weiser	Testing	9
Unit 24	Southwest	Valley	McCall Zone	McCall – Weiser	—	3
Unit 25	Southwest	Valley	McCall Zone	McCall – Weiser	—	1
Unit 26	Southwest	Valley Idaho	Middle Fork Zone	Middle Fork	—	4
Unit 31	Southwest	Washington	Brownlee Zone	McCall – Weiser	—	10
Unit 32	Southwest	Washington Gem Payette + more	Weiser River Zone	McCall – Weiser	—	4
Unit 32A	Southwest	Adams Gem Valley + more	Weiser River Zone	McCall – Weiser	—	12
Unit 33	Southwest	Boise Valley	Sawtooth Zone	Sawtooth	—	5
Unit 34	Southwest	Valley Boise	Sawtooth Zone	Sawtooth	—	4
Unit 35	Southwest	Boise	Sawtooth Zone	Sawtooth	—	5
Unit 38	Southwest	Ada Canyon Elmore + more	Boise River Zone	Southern Idaho	—	7
Unit 39	Southwest	Elmore Boise Ada	Boise River Zone	Sawtooth	—	14
Unit 40	Southwest	Owyhee	Owyhee Zone	Southern Idaho	—	12
Unit 41	Southwest	Owyhee	Owyhee Zone	Southern Idaho	—	16
Unit 42	Southwest	Owyhee	Owyhee Zone	Southern Idaho	—	13
Unit 43	Magic Valley	Camas Elmore	Smoky-Bennett Zone	Southern Mountains	—	9
Unit 44	Magic Valley	Camas Elmore Blaine	Smoky-Bennett Zone	Southern Mountains	—	18
Unit 45	Magic Valley	Elmore Gooding Camas	Smoky-Bennett Zone	Southern Idaho	—	17
Unit 46	Magic Valley	Owyhee Twin Falls Elmore	South Hills Zone	Southern Idaho	—	10
Unit 47	Magic Valley	Twin Falls Owyhee	South Hills Zone	Southern Idaho	—	12
Unit 48	Magic Valley	Blaine	Smoky-Bennett Zone	Southern Mountains	—	14
Unit 49	Magic Valley	Blaine	Pioneer Zone	Southern Mountains	—	10
Unit 52	Magic Valley	Lincoln Blaine Camas + more	Smoky-Bennett Zone	Southern Idaho	—	13
Unit 53	Magic Valley	Jerome Minidoka Lincoln + more	Big Desert Zone	Southern Idaho	—	3
Unit 54	Magic Valley	Twin Falls Cassia	South Hills Zone	Southern Idaho	—	23
Unit 55	Magic Valley	Cassia	South Hills Zone	Southern Idaho	—	16
Unit 56	Magic Valley	Cassia Oneida Power	South Hills Zone	Southern Idaho	—	5
Unit 57	Magic Valley	Cassia Oneida	South Hills Zone	Southern Idaho	—	16
Unit 66A	Southeast	Bonneville Caribou	Diamond Creek Zone	Southern Idaho	—	12
Unit 68A	Southeast	Bingham Bannock Power + more	Big Desert Zone	Southern Idaho	—	4
Unit 70	Southeast	Bannock Power	Bannock Zone	Southern Idaho	—	9
Unit 71	Southeast	Bannock Caribou Bingham	Bannock Zone	Southern Idaho	—	5
Unit 72	Southeast	Caribou Bingham	Bannock Zone	Southern Idaho	—	6
Unit 73	Southeast	Oneida Bannock Franklin + more	Bannock Zone	Southern Idaho	—	9
Unit 73A	Southeast	Power Oneida	Bannock Zone	Southern Idaho	—	6
Unit 74	Southeast	Bannock Caribou Franklin	Bannock Zone	Southern Idaho	—	8
Unit 75	Southeast	Bear Lake Caribou Franklin	Bear River Zone	Southern Idaho	—	3
Unit 76	Southeast	Caribou Bear Lake	Diamond Creek Zone	Southern Idaho	—	15
Unit 77	Southeast	Franklin Bear Lake	Bear River Zone	Southern Idaho	—	3
Unit 78	Southeast	Bear Lake Franklin	Bear River Zone	Southern Idaho	—	6
Unit 50	Upper Snake	Custer Butte Blaine	Pioneer Zone	Southern Mountains	—	18
Unit 51	Upper Snake	Butte Custer Lemhi + more	Lemhi Zone	Southern Mountains	—	16
Unit 52A	Upper Snake	Lincoln Blaine Minidoka + more	Big Desert Zone	Southern Idaho	—	4
Unit 58	Upper Snake	Lemhi Clark Butte	Beaverhead Zone	Beaverhead	—	11
Unit 59	Upper Snake	Clark	Beaverhead Zone	Beaverhead	—	9
Unit 59A	Upper Snake	Clark Lemhi Jefferson	Beaverhead Zone	Beaverhead	—	9
Unit 60	Upper Snake	Fremont Clark	Island Park Zone	Island Park	—	20
Unit 60A	Upper Snake	Fremont Clark Jefferson + more	Island Park Zone	Island Park	—	21
Unit 61	Upper Snake	Fremont Clark	Island Park Zone	Island Park	—	23
Unit 62	Upper Snake	Fremont Teton Madison	Island Park Zone	Island Park	—	10
Unit 62A	Upper Snake	Fremont	Island Park Zone	Island Park	—	23
Unit 63	Upper Snake	Jefferson Bingham Butte + more	Snake River Zone	Southern Idaho	—	13
Unit 63A	Upper Snake	Jefferson Bonneville Madison	Snake River Zone	Southern Idaho	Testing	3
Unit 64	Upper Snake	Madison Teton Jefferson	Palisades Zone	Island Park	Testing	4
Unit 65	Upper Snake	Teton	Palisades Zone	Island Park	—	8
Unit 66	Upper Snake	Bonneville	Tex Creek Zone	Southern Idaho	—	10
Unit 67	Upper Snake	Bonneville Teton Madison + more	Palisades Zone	Island Park	—	8
Unit 68	Upper Snake	Bingham Power Blaine + more	Big Desert Zone	Southern Idaho	—	7
Unit 69	Upper Snake	Bingham Bonneville Caribou	Tex Creek Zone	Southern Idaho	Testing	12
Unit 21	Salmon	Lemhi	Salmon Zone	Salmon	—	10
Unit 21A	Salmon	Lemhi	Salmon Zone	Salmon	—	10
Unit 27	Salmon	Valley Custer Lemhi	Middle Fork Zone	Middle Fork	—	12
Unit 28	Salmon	Lemhi Custer	Salmon Zone	Salmon	—	16
Unit 29	Salmon	Lemhi	Lemhi Zone	Southern Mountains	—	16
Unit 30	Salmon	Lemhi	Beaverhead Zone	Beaverhead	—	13
Unit 30A	Salmon	Lemhi	Beaverhead Zone	Beaverhead	—	13
Unit 36	Salmon	Custer Blaine	Sawtooth Zone	Sawtooth	—	17
Unit 36A	Salmon	Custer	Pioneer Zone	Southern Mountains	—	23
Unit 36B	Salmon	Custer	Salmon Zone	Salmon	—	13
Unit 37	Salmon	Custer Lemhi	Lemhi Zone	Southern Mountains	—	21
Unit 37A	Salmon	Lemhi Custer	Lemhi Zone	Southern Mountains	—	16

From the IDFG Hunt Planner, the IDFG Game Units, Elk Zones and Wolf Zones layers and the 2026 brochures; checked November 12, 2026.

Idaho units by IDFG region

IDFG runs its field work from 7 regions, each with a regional office, plus a subregional office in McCall for the north end of the Southwest Region and headquarters in Boise. A unit belongs to one region on the Hunt Planner even when its counties straddle a regional line, and the unit page names the office to ask about access, fire closures and animal numbers.

Panhandle Region (9)

IDFG Panhandle Region Office, Coeur d'Alene (208) 769-1414

Unit 1Panhandle

Unit 2Panhandle

Unit 3Panhandle

Unit 4Panhandle

Unit 4APanhandle

Unit 5Panhandle

Unit 6Panhandle

Unit 7Panhandle

Unit 9Panhandle

Clearwater Region (16)

IDFG Clearwater Region Office, Lewiston (208) 799-5010

Unit 8Palouse

Unit 8APalouse

Unit 10Lolo

Unit 10ADworshak

Unit 11Hells Canyon

Unit 11APalouse

Unit 12Lolo

Unit 13Hells Canyon

Unit 14Elk City

Unit 15Elk City

Unit 16Elk City

Unit 16ASelway

Unit 17Selway

Unit 18Hells Canyon

Unit 19Selway

Unit 20Selway

Southwest Region (18)

IDFG Southwest Region South – Nampa Office, Nampa (208) 465-8465

Unit 19AMcCall

Unit 20AMiddle Fork

Unit 22Weiser River

Unit 23McCall

Unit 24McCall

Unit 25McCall

Unit 26Middle Fork

Unit 31Brownlee

Unit 32Weiser River

Unit 32AWeiser River

Unit 33Sawtooth

Unit 34Sawtooth

Unit 35Sawtooth

Unit 38Boise River

Unit 39Boise River

Unit 40Owyhee

Unit 41Owyhee

Unit 42Owyhee

Magic Valley Region (13)

IDFG Magic Valley Region Office, Jerome (208) 324-4359

Unit 43Smoky-Bennett

Unit 44Smoky-Bennett

Unit 45Smoky-Bennett

Unit 46South Hills

Unit 47South Hills

Unit 48Smoky-Bennett

Unit 49Pioneer

Unit 52Smoky-Bennett

Unit 53Big Desert

Unit 54South Hills

Unit 55South Hills

Unit 56South Hills

Unit 57South Hills

Southeast Region (12)

IDFG Southeast Region Office, Pocatello (208) 232-4703

Unit 66ADiamond Creek

Unit 68ABig Desert

Unit 70Bannock

Unit 71Bannock

Unit 72Bannock

Unit 73Bannock

Unit 73ABannock

Unit 74Bannock

Unit 75Bear River

Unit 76Diamond Creek

Unit 77Bear River

Unit 78Bear River

Upper Snake Region (19)

IDFG Upper Snake Region Office, Idaho Falls (208) 525-7290

Unit 50Pioneer

Unit 51Lemhi

Unit 52ABig Desert

Unit 58Beaverhead

Unit 59Beaverhead

Unit 59ABeaverhead

Unit 60Island Park

Unit 60AIsland Park

Unit 61Island Park

Unit 62Island Park

Unit 62AIsland Park

Unit 63Snake River

Unit 63ASnake River

Unit 64Palisades

Unit 65Palisades

Unit 66Tex Creek

Unit 67Palisades

Unit 68Big Desert

Unit 69Tex Creek

Salmon Region (12)

IDFG Salmon Region Office, Salmon (208) 756-2271

Unit 21Salmon

Unit 21ASalmon

Unit 27Middle Fork

Unit 28Salmon

Unit 29Lemhi

Unit 30Beaverhead

Unit 30ABeaverhead

Unit 36Sawtooth

Unit 36APioneer

Unit 36BSalmon

Unit 37Lemhi

Unit 37ALemhi

Regions from the IDFG regions list; offices from the IDFG offices page; checked November 12, 2026.

Idaho units with the biggest 2025 general harvest

IDFG reports harvest by unit and by hunt, never by county. On the 2025 general season deer statistics (all weapons combined), Unit 10A led with 2,844 deer from 6,335 hunters, and for general elk Unit 6 led with 589 elk. Each unit page carries its own five-year table from 2021 to 2025.

General deer, 2025

Unit	Deer taken	Hunters	Success
Unit 10A	2,844	6,335	45%
Unit 1	2,838	8,248	34%
Unit 39	2,145	10,929	20%
Unit 6	1,559	3,961	39%
Unit 8A	1,548	4,436	35%
Unit 2	1,351	4,022	34%
Unit 3	1,258	4,016	31%
Unit 43	1,056	3,687	29%
Unit 5	1,055	2,814	37%
Unit 15	973	2,317	42%

General elk, 2025

Unit	Elk taken	Hunters	Success
Unit 6	589	3,685	16%
Unit 8A	580	2,899	20%
Unit 39	537	4,238	13%
Unit 4	508	5,152	10%
Unit 22	461	2,448	19%
Unit 10A	428	2,972	14%
Unit 23	419	2,362	18%
Unit 32A	419	2,450	17%
Unit 69	419	1,834	23%
Unit 1	398	4,390	9%

2025 general deer harvest and 2025 general elk harvest, IDFG Hunt Planner (All Weapons Combined rows); checked November 12, 2026.

White-tailed doe standing in light snowPhoto: YellowstoneNPS (Public domain)

White-tailed deer buck in the treesPhoto: USFWS/Southeast (CC BY 2.0)

Mule deer does feeding in sagebrushPhoto: Bureau of Land Management – Utah (Public Domain Mark 1.0)

Idaho hunting unit questions

How many units does IDFG list on the Hunt Planner?

99 units on the IDFG Hunt Planner, numbered 1 to 78 with lettered units such as 10A and 36B. The Yellowstone National Park polygon on the GIS layer is not a unit.

Do Idaho hunting units have names?

No. IDFG numbers the units and gives them no names, so each page calls a unit by its number.

Do Idaho unit lines match county lines?

No. 68 of the 99 units reach more than one county, and each unit page gives the share in each county both ways.

How do elk zones relate to units?

Each of the 28 elk zones groups one or more units, and general elk tags are sold for a zone as an A tag or a B tag.

Are wolf seasons set by wolf zone?

No. The 13 wolf zones are IDFG data analysis units; wolf hunting and trapping seasons are set by unit and by public or private land.

Which units are in the CWD Management Zone?

Units 14 and 18 and the part of Unit 1 in Boundary County east of the Selkirk Mountains crest. Deer testing is also mandatory in Units 23, 63A, 64 and 69.

Which unit is the largest?

Unit 46, at 1,699,700 acres on the Hunt Planner. The smallest with a printed acreage is Unit 9 at 129,273 acres.

Can I find an Idaho harvest total for one county?

No. Harvest is reported by unit and by hunt, so these pages show unit figures and never add them into a county total.

Are controlled hunt tags drawn by unit?

Tags are drawn by hunt number, and a hunt area can cover one unit, part of a unit or several units. Each unit page lists every hunt whose area reaches it.

From the IDFG sources above; checked November 12, 2026.