Alaska Brown Bear · Unit 26B
Alaska Unit 26B spans 10,452,541 acres, centered 65 miles south of Prudhoe Bay. In 2025, 15 people hunted brown bear here and took 7, a 47% success rate (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, DB987, put up 20 nonresident tags in the 2025 draw for 91 first-choice applicants.
No points in this draw. Every applicant has the same chance each year.
1 license
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
10,452,541 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Best Bets
Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2025 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
Every License in Unit 26B
| What | Season | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| DB987 | 26B | 22% |
First-choice nonresident odds, 2025 draw. No points in this draw: every applicant has the same chance.
Draw results: ADF&G 2026-2027 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $1,165 ($165 to apply). Open Nov 1 – Dec 15, 2026 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 15 | 7 | 47% |
| 2024 (summed) | 8 | 6 | 75% |
| 2023 (summed) | 10 | 2 | 20% |
| 2022 (summed) | 5 | 2 | 40% |
| 2021 (summed) | 8 | 4 | 50% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drawing | 15 | 7 | 47% |
What Alaska Department of Fish and Game publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Alaska Department of Fish and Game publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published hunt rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. 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; ADF&G 2023 Brown/Grizzly Bear Draw Hunt Statistics.
Next Door
▸ Sources 9
- ADF&G 2026-2027 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement draw results, 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, area description, 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. 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. How we compute these.
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Prior-draw odds from Alaska Department of Fish and Game's results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Alaska brown bear hunts