Alaska Caribou — Unit 22E
Alaska Unit 22E covers 3,876,980 acres and lies 22 miles south-east of Shishmaref and 98 miles south-west of Kotzebue. In 2025, 36 people hunted caribou here and took 27 — 75% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 22E 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 | 36 | 27 | 75% | 4.6 |
| 2024 | 40 | 31 | 78% | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 53 | 41 | 77% | 5.4 |
| 2022 | 57 | 43 | 75% | 2.3 |
| 2021 | 43 | 35 | 81% | 3.3 |
Boundary: Alaska Game Management Unit and Subunit boundaries (wc_public/GMUSubunits)