Alaska Caribou · Unit 23
Alaska Unit 23 spans 30,143,557 acres, centered 34 miles north-east of Noorvik. In 2025, 579 people hunted caribou here and took 488, a 84% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, DC923, put up 300 nonresident tags in the 2025 draw for 666 first-choice applicants.
No points in this draw. Every applicant has the same chance each year.
New for 2025: The First Draw Held Here
Unit 23 did not exist before the 2025 caribou draw. The chances below are that one draw's actual results, not an estimate, and there is no point-creep trend to read yet.
1 license
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
30,143,557 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Best Bets
Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2025 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
Every License in Unit 23
| What | Season | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| DC923 | Unit 23 | 45% |
First-choice nonresident odds, 2025 draw. No points in this draw: every applicant has the same chance.
Draw results: ADF&G 2026-2027 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $815 ($165 to apply). Open Nov 1 – Dec 15, 2026 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 579 | 488 | 84% |
| 2024 | 573 | 489 | 85% |
| 2023 | 651 | 468 | 72% |
| 2022 | 413 | 281 | 65% |
| 2021 | 761 | 567 | 74% |
What Alaska Department of Fish and Game publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. 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. Source: ADF&G 2025 Caribou General Harvest Reports; ADF&G 2024 Caribou General Harvest Reports; ADF&G 2023 Caribou General Harvest Reports.
▸ Sources 9
- ADF&G 2026-2027 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2026 Drawing Hunt Information fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2026 License, Stamp and Tag Prices fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2025 Caribou General Harvest Reports harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2024 Caribou General Harvest Reports harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2023 Caribou General Harvest Reports harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2022 Caribou General Harvest Reports harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2021 Caribou General Harvest Reports harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ADF&G 2026 Game Management Unit and Subunit… boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from Alaska Department of Fish and Game's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.
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Prior-draw odds from Alaska Department of Fish and Game's results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Alaska caribou hunts