Alaska Brown Bear — Unit 8

Alaska Unit 8 covers 6,008,916 acres and lies 41 miles south-west of Kodiak. In 2025, 299 people hunted brown bear here and took 134 — 45% of them killed something. The 2025 draw put up 17 nonresident tags here for 158 first-choice applicants.

Nonresident tags (2025):408 Applicants:11,343 Hunter success (2025):45% Size:6,008,916 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every brown bear license type on offer in Unit 8, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

No points in this draw — every nonresident applicant has the same chance.

108 licenses on offer · 408 tags · 11,343 applicants in the 2025 draw

Chances are from the 2025 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • DB101 08, Kizhuyak Bay (fall season, guided nonresidents) 1 tags · 1 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB102 08, West Ugak Bay (fall season, guided nonresidents) 4 tags · 11 applicants
    36% Long shot
  • DB103 08, South Ugak Bay (fall season, guided nonresidents) 4 tags · 17 applicants
    24% Long shot
  • DB104 08, Kiliuda Bay (fall season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 8 applicants
    38% Long shot
  • DB105 08, Three Saints & Barling Bays (fall season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 6 applicants
    50% Real chance
  • DB106 08, Kaiugnak Bay (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 0 applicants
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DB107 08, Aliulik Peninsula (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 6 applicants
    33% Long shot
  • DB108 08, Deadman Bay (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 0 applicants
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DB109 08, Dog Salmon River (fall season, guided nonresidents) 1 tags · 7 applicants
    14% Long shot
  • DB110 08, South Olga Lakes (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 0 applicants
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DB111 08, Red Lake (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 2 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB112 08, Frazer Lake (fall season, guided nonresidents) 1 tags · 15 applicants
    7% Long shot
  • DB113 08, Karluk Lake (fall season, guided nonresidents) 1 tags · 6 applicants
    17% Long shot
  • DB114 08, Halibut Bay (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 8 applicants
    25% Long shot
  • DB115 08, Sturgeon River (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 2 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB116 08, North Karluk River (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 6 applicants
    33% Long shot
  • DB117 08, North Uyak Bay (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 1 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB118 08, South Uyak Bay (fall season, guided nonresidents) 1 tags · 1 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB119 08, Zachar Bay (fall season, guided nonresidents) 1 tags · 1 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB120 08, South Spiridon Bay (fall season, guided nonresidents) 1 tags · 7 applicants
    14% Long shot
  • DB121 08, Spiridon Lake (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 2 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB122 08, Uganik Bay (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 1 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB124 08, Uganik Lake (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 1 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB126 08, Kupreanof Peninsula (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 2 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB127 08, Sharatin Bay (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 1 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB128 08, Wild Creek (fall season, guided nonresidents) 2 tags · 8 applicants
    25% Long shot
  • DB131 Kodiak: Kizhuyak Bay (spring season, guided nonresidents) 1 tags · 0 applicants
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DB132 Kodiak: West Ugak Bay (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 13 applicants
    23% Long shot
  • DB133 Kodiak: South Ugak Bay (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 9 applicants
    33% Long shot
  • DB134 Kodiak: bear hunters on their lands. Areas subject to these (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 10 applicants
    30% Long shot
  • DB135 Kodiak: Hunters are strongly encouraged to check on guide (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 3 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB136 Kodiak: licensed guides registered for particular hunt areas may (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 0 applicants
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DB137 Kodiak: Aliulik Peninsula (spring season, guided nonresidents) 4 tags · 6 applicants
    67% Real chance
  • DB138 Kodiak: Deadman Bay (spring season, guided nonresidents) 4 tags · 0 applicants
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DB139 Kodiak: Dog Salmon River (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 3 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB140 Kodiak: South Olga Lakes (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 9 applicants
    33% Long shot
  • DB141 Kodiak: Red Lake (spring season, guided nonresidents) 4 tags · 10 applicants
    40% Real chance
  • DB142 Kodiak: bear Drawing permit for the remainder of the regulatory (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 2 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB143 Kodiak: the deadline. If a successful applicant cancels their (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 7 applicants
    43% Real chance
  • DB144 Kodiak: will choose an alternate for that permit from the alternate (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 3 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB145 Kodiak: Sturgeon River (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 2 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB146 Kodiak: North Karluk River (spring season, guided nonresidents) 4 tags · 4 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB147 Kodiak: North Uyak Bay (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 3 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB148 Kodiak: South Uyak Bay (spring season, guided nonresidents) 4 tags · 4 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB149 Kodiak: Zachar Bay (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 3 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB150 Kodiak: verification code (obtained by the guide from Big Game (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 3 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB151 Kodiak: Spiridon Lake (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 3 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB152 Kodiak: Uganik Bay (spring season, guided nonresidents) 4 tags · 3 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB154 Kodiak: Uganik Lake (spring season, guided nonresidents) 4 tags · 3 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB156 Kodiak: Kupreanof Peninsula (spring season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 3 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB157 Kodiak: in Kodiak in person BEFORE the start of the season. No (spring season, guided nonresidents) 4 tags · 2 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB158 Kodiak: Wild Creek (spring season, guided nonresidents) 4 tags · 3 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DB161 08, East Afognak and Marmot Islands (fall season, guided nonresidents) 3 tags · 23 applicants
    13% Long shot
  • DB191 Kodiak: start of the season. (spring season, guided nonresidents) 5 tags · 18 applicants
    28% Long shot
  • DB201 08, Kizhuyak Bay (fall season) 3 tags · 70 applicants
    4% Long shot
  • DB202 08, West Ugak Bay (fall season) 5 tags · 86 applicants
    6% Long shot
  • DB203 08, South Ugak Bay (fall season) 5 tags · 342 applicants
    1% Long shot
  • DB204 08, Kiliuda Bay (fall season) 4 tags · 181 applicants
    2% Long shot
  • DB205 08, Three Saints & Barling Bays (fall season) 4 tags · 316 applicants
    1% Long shot
  • DB206 08, Kaiugnak Bay (fall season) 3 tags · 286 applicants
    1% Long shot
  • DB207 08, Aliulik Peninsula (fall season) 3 tags · 693 applicants
    <1% Long shot
  • DB208 08, Deadman Bay (fall season) 3 tags · 451 applicants
    <1% Long shot
  • DB209 08, Dog Salmon River (fall season) 2 tags · 169 applicants
    1% Long shot
  • DB210 08, South Olga Lakes (fall season) 3 tags · 198 applicants
    2% Long shot
  • DB211 08, Red Lake (fall season) 3 tags · 876 applicants
    <1% Long shot
  • DB212 08, Frazer Lake (fall season) 1 tags · 401 applicants
    <1% Long shot
  • DB213 08, Karluk Lake (fall season) 3 tags · 548 applicants
    <1% Long shot
  • DB214 08, Halibut Bay (fall season) 1 tags · 214 applicants
    <1% Long shot
  • DB215 08, Sturgeon River (fall season) 3 tags · 95 applicants
    3% Long shot
  • DB216 08, North Karluk River (fall season) 3 tags · 117 applicants
    3% Long shot
  • DB217 08, North Uyak Bay (fall season) 3 tags · 144 applicants
    2% Long shot
  • DB218 08, South Uyak Bay (fall season) 2 tags · 102 applicants
    2% Long shot
  • DB219 08, Zachar Bay (fall season) 2 tags · 234 applicants
    <1% Long shot
  • DB220 08, South Spiridon Bay (fall season) 2 tags · 103 applicants
    2% Long shot
  • DB221 08, Spiridon Lake (fall season) 3 tags · 362 applicants
    <1% Long shot
  • DB222 08, Uganik Bay (fall season) 3 tags · 134 applicants
    2% Long shot
  • DB224 08, Uganik Lake (fall season) 3 tags · 199 applicants
    2% Long shot
  • DB226 08, Kupreanof Peninsula (fall season) 6 tags · 376 applicants
    2% Long shot
  • DB227 08, Sharatin Bay (fall season) 7 tags · 136 applicants
    5% Long shot
  • DB228 08, Wild Creek (fall season) 7 tags · 283 applicants
    2% Long shot
  • DB231 08, Kizhuyak Bay (spring season) 4 tags · 32 applicants
    13% Long shot
  • DB232 08, West Ugak Bay (spring season) 4 tags · 65 applicants
    6% Long shot
  • DB233 08, South Ugak Bay (spring season) 5 tags · 204 applicants
    2% Long shot
  • DB234 08, Kiliuda Bay (spring season) 5 tags · 83 applicants
    6% Long shot
  • DB235 08, Three Saints & Barling Bays (spring season) 5 tags · 125 applicants
    4% Long shot
  • DB236 08, Kaiugnak Bay (spring season) 5 tags · 159 applicants
    3% Long shot
  • DB237 08, Aliulik Peninsula (spring season) 5 tags · 487 applicants
    1% Long shot
  • DB238 08, Deadman Bay (spring season) 6 tags · 273 applicants
    2% Long shot
  • DB239 08, Dog Salmon River (spring season) 5 tags · 58 applicants
    9% Long shot
  • DB240 08, South Olga Lakes (spring season) 5 tags · 101 applicants
    5% Long shot
  • DB241 08, Red Lake (spring season) 5 tags · 162 applicants
    3% Long shot
  • DB242 08, Frazer Lake (spring season) 5 tags · 360 applicants
    1% Long shot
  • DB243 08, Karluk Lake (spring season) 4 tags · 160 applicants
    3% Long shot
  • DB244 08, Halibut Bay (spring season) 5 tags · 72 applicants
    7% Long shot
  • DB245 08, Sturgeon River (spring season) 5 tags · 41 applicants
    12% Long shot
  • DB246 08, North Karluk River (spring season) 6 tags · 67 applicants
    9% Long shot
  • DB247 08, North Uyak Bay (spring season) 5 tags · 77 applicants
    6% Long shot
  • DB248 08, South Uyak Bay (spring season) 6 tags · 145 applicants
    4% Long shot
  • DB249 08, Zachar Bay (spring season) 5 tags · 67 applicants
    7% Long shot
  • DB250 08, South Spiridon Bay (spring season) 5 tags · 97 applicants
    5% Long shot
  • DB251 08, Spiridon Lake (spring season) 5 tags · 133 applicants
    4% Long shot
  • DB252 08, Uganik Bay (spring season) 6 tags · 80 applicants
    8% Long shot
  • DB254 08, Uganik Lake (spring season) 6 tags · 57 applicants
    11% Long shot
  • DB256 08, Kupreanof Peninsula (spring season) 6 tags · 132 applicants
    5% Long shot
  • DB257 08, Sharatin Bay (spring season) 15 tags · 138 applicants
    11% Long shot
  • DB258 08, Wild Creek (spring season) 15 tags · 84 applicants
    18% Long shot
  • DB261 08, East Afognak and Marmot Islands (fall season) 7 tags · 338 applicants
    2% Long shot
  • DB291 08, East Afognak and Marmot Island (spring season) 17 tags · 158 applicants
    11% Long shot
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2025 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
Points needed
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2025 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Per application $165 $165 $1,165

Application window: opens Nov 1, closes Dec 15, 2026 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Ketchikan Kake Cordova Delta Junction Kodiak
Unit 8 within Alaska
Kodiak New Stuyahok Homer Soldotna Sand Point
Unit 8 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

How the hunting has gone

What Alaska Department of Fish and Game publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Alaska Department of Fish and Game publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. 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.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 299 134 45%
2024 293 158 54%
2023 274 143 52%
2022 263 128 49%
2021 269 155 58%

Boundary: Alaska Game Management Unit and Subunit boundaries (wc_public/GMUSubunits)

Harvest: 2025 Brown/Grizzly Bear Draw Hunt Statistics (Reported Harvest)

Harvest: 2024 Brown/Grizzly Bear Draw Hunt Statistics (Reported Harvest)

Harvest: 2023 Brown/Grizzly Bear Draw Hunt Statistics (Reported Harvest)

How we compute draw odds · All Alaska brown bear hunts