Alaska Caribou — Unit 26C

Alaska Unit 26C covers 7,038,347 acres and lies 330 miles south-east of Utqiaġvik. In 2025, 68 people hunted caribou here and took 47 — 69% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):69% Size:7,038,347 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 26C 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 26C within Alaska
25A 26B
Unit 26C 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 68 47 69% 7.1
2024 40 14 35% 5.4
2023 71 42 59% 4.3
2022 79 53 67% 5.7
2021 78 55 71% 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