Alaska Caribou — Unit 21A

Alaska Unit 21A covers 6,909,619 acres and lies 110 miles south-east of Unalakleet. In 2025, 8 people hunted caribou here and took 1 — 13% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):13% Size:6,909,619 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 21A 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

Ketchikan Kake Cordova Delta Junction Kodiak
Unit 21A within Alaska
13E 14 14A 14B 14C 16 16A 16B 18 19 19A 19B 19C 19D 20C 20F 21 21B 21C 21D 21E 22 22A 22B 22C Aniak Unalakleet Stebbins Pilot Station Kotlik
Unit 21A 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'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 8 1 13% 10.0
2024 7 1 14% 10.0
2023 3 0% 0.0
2022 7 6 86% 8.8
2021 6 3 50% 9.3

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

Harvest: 2025 Caribou General Harvest Reports -- Sex Composition of Harvest by Subunit (Id=130) and Summary of Hunter Effort vs. Success by Subunit (Id=510)

Harvest: 2024 Caribou General Harvest Reports -- Sex Composition of Harvest by Subunit (Id=130) and Summary of Hunter Effort vs. Success by Subunit (Id=510)

Harvest: 2023 Caribou General Harvest Reports -- Sex Composition of Harvest by Subunit (Id=130) and Summary of Hunter Effort vs. Success by Subunit (Id=510)

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