Alaska Caribou — Unit 25A

Alaska Unit 25A covers 13,642,791 acres and lies 222 miles north of Fairbanks. In 2025, 449 people hunted caribou here and took 295 — 66% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):66% Size:13,642,791 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 25A 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 25A within Alaska
20F 21C 24 24A 24B 24C 24D 25 25B 25C 25D 26 26B 26C
Unit 25A 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 449 295 66% 6.3
2024 508 349 69% 5.8
2023 316 212 67% 7.0
2022 309 235 76% 6.3
2021 289 209 72% 7.4

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