Alaska Caribou — Unit 26

Alaska Unit 26 covers 53,465,605 acres and lies 146 miles south-east of Utqiaġvik.

Hunter success (2025):100% Size:53,465,605 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 26 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 26 within Alaska
20 20A 20B 20C 20D 20E 20F 21 21B 21C 21D 22 22A 22B 22C 22D 22E 23 24 24A 24B 24C 24D 25 25A 25B 25C 25D 26A 26B 26C Utqiaġvik Selawik Point Hope Fairbanks Unalakleet
Unit 26 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 1 100% 8.0
2024 1 0% 0.0
2023 4 50% 6.0
2022 1 0% 0.0
2021 1 100% 6.0

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