Alaska Caribou — Unit 26B
Alaska Unit 26B covers 10,452,541 acres and lies 228 miles south-east of Utqiaġvik. In 2025, 2,315 people hunted caribou here and took 1,028 — 44% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 26B 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 | 2,315 | 1,028 | 44% | 6.0 |
| 2024 | 2,223 | 1,151 | 52% | 5.9 |
| 2023 | 1,597 | 680 | 43% | 5.9 |
| 2022 | 1,183 | 622 | 53% | 5.9 |
| 2021 | 976 | 536 | 55% | 5.6 |
Boundary: Alaska Game Management Unit and Subunit boundaries (wc_public/GMUSubunits)