Alaska Brown Bear DB987
26B in Unit 26B, rifle only, Aug 10 – Jun 15, 2026.
No points in this draw. Every applicant has the same chance each year.
Your odds · 2025 draw
20 tags for 91 first-choice applicants
Every applicant has the same chance each year: in 2025, 20 tags went to 91 first-choice applicants.
Points: none, same chance every year
- NR Tags
- 20
- Applicants
- 91
- Success
- 47%
First-choice nonresidents. Success: Drawing hunters, 2025.
Odds by Year, 2021–2025
Odds (tags ÷ applicants) ran from 10% to 25% across 2021–2025. Applicants per tag: 5.8:1 in 2021, 4.6:1 in 2025.
What It Costs · 2026 NR Fees
Closes Dec 15 · 57 daysThe $5 drawing application fee, per hunt entry is not refunded. The $160 nonresident annual hunting license is not refunded. Drawing adds the $1,000 nonresident brown/grizzly bear locking-tag.
- Opens
- Nov 1, 2026
- Closes
- Dec 15, 2026
- Results
- about Feb 19
Next application window: Open Nov 1 – Dec 15, 2026 (expected). Dates are last cycle's, rolled forward until Alaska Department of Fish and Game publishes 2026.
▸ Every Fee, With Sources
- Drawing application fee, per hunt entry · paid at application $5 ADF&G 2026 Drawing Hunt Information
- Nonresident annual hunting license · paid at application $160 ADF&G 2026 License, Stamp and Tag Prices
- Nonresident brown/grizzly bear locking-tag · paid if drawn $1,000 ADF&G 2026 License, Stamp and Tag Prices
Details
Odds in This Draw · 2025 Draw
| Who | Chance | Applied | Drew |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everyone | 22% | — | — |
Tags ÷ applicants. As a lower choice, DB987 drew no one in 2025, so lower-choice odds are left out.
Draw results: ADF&G 2026-2027 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, p. 20, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.
How It Hunted, 2025
| Who | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drawing | 15 | 7 | 47% |
| All of Unit 26B | 15 | 7 | 47% |
Adding up Alaska Department of Fish and Game's published lines for Unit 26B gives 15 hunters and 7 brown bear taken in 2025, and 47% of them took a brown bear (sum of published hunt rows). The first rows are hunters holding this license type; the rest of the area's hunters held something else. Alaska's figures come from mandatory harvest reports and sealing certificates rather than a hunter survey, so they are counts of animals reported, not estimates. Source: ADF&G 2025 Brown/Grizzly Bear Draw Hunt Statistics; ADF&G 2024 Brown/Grizzly Bear Draw Hunt Statistics.
▸ Year-by-Year Numbers 5 draws
The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.
| Year | Tags | Applicants | Per Tag | Published Odds | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | 91 | 4.6 | 22% | ADF&G 2026-2027 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, p. 20 |
| 2024 | 14 | 113 | 8.1 | 12% | ADF&G 2025-2026 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, p. 20 |
| 2023 | 14 | 140 | 10 | 10% | ADF&G 2024-2025 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, p. 20 |
| 2022 | 20 | 80 | 4 | 25% | ADF&G 2023-2024 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, p. 20 |
| 2021 | 14 | 81 | 5.8 | 17% | ADF&G 2022-2023 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, p. 20 |
▸ Legal Cartridges 23 on file for Alaska brown bear
23 cartridges on file are legal for brown bear with a rifle in Alaska. Rules and sources: Alaska hunting laws.
▸ Sources 14
- ADF&G 2026-2027 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, p. 20 · draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2025-2026 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, p. 20 · earlier draws, seasons, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2024-2025 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, p. 20 · earlier draws, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2023-2024 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, p. 20 · earlier draws, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2022-2023 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, p. 20 · earlier draws, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2026 How Does the Random Drawing Work draw rules, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2026 Drawing Hunt Information fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2026 License, Stamp and Tag Prices fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2025 Brown/Grizzly Bear Draw Hunt Statistics harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2024 Brown/Grizzly Bear Draw Hunt Statistics harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2023 Brown/Grizzly Bear Draw Hunt Statistics harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2022 Brown/Grizzly Bear Draw Hunt Statistics harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2021 Brown/Grizzly Bear Draw Hunt Statistics harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2026 Game Management Unit and Subunit… boundary, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from Alaska Department of Fish and Game's published results (tags ÷ applicants). They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward.
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