Alaska Caribou — Unit 16B
Alaska Unit 16B covers 7,102,440 acres and lies 71 miles west of Houston and 83 miles west of Wasilla. In 2025, 43 people hunted caribou here and took 15 — 35% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 16B in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Alaska caribou hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
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'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 | Days per animal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | 15 | 35% | 6.6 |
| 2024 | 37 | 14 | 38% | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 52 | 9 | 17% | 6.8 |
| 2022 | 54 | 16 | 30% | 7.2 |
| 2021 | 40 | 15 | 38% | 6.1 |
Boundary: Alaska Game Management Unit and Subunit boundaries (wc_public/GMUSubunits)