Alaska Caribou — Unit 26A
Alaska Unit 26A covers 35,974,715 acres and lies 112 miles south-east of Wainwright. In 2025, 197 people hunted caribou here and took 158 — 80% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 26A 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 | 197 | 158 | 80% | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 204 | 131 | 64% | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 254 | 167 | 66% | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 130 | 104 | 80% | 9.3 |
| 2021 | 104 | 82 | 79% | 5.2 |
Boundary: Alaska Game Management Unit and Subunit boundaries (wc_public/GMUSubunits)