Alaska Caribou — Unit 21C

Alaska Unit 21C covers 2,342,268 acres and lies 180 miles south-east of Selawik. In 2025, 10 people hunted caribou here and took 3 — 30% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):30% Size:2,342,268 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 21C 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 Delta Junction Cordova Kodiak
Unit 21C within Alaska
20F 21B 21D 24C 24D
Unit 21C 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 10 3 30% 14.0
2024 2 0% 0.0
2023 16 7 44% 7.9
2022 6 2 33% 8.0
2021 6 3 50% 8.7

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)

How we compute draw odds · All Alaska caribou hunts