Alaska Caribou — Unit 9E

Alaska Unit 9E covers 10,760,946 acres and lies 142 miles south of Dillingham. In 2025, 58 people hunted caribou here and took 24 — 41% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):41% Size:10,760,946 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 9E 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 Cordova Delta Junction Kodiak
Unit 9E within Alaska
15B 15C 17A 7 8 9A 9B 9C 9D Dillingham Sand Point Kodiak Quinhagak Homer
Unit 9E 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 58 24 41% 5.2
2024 57 24 42% 4.8
2023 55 23 42% 5.5
2022 52 27 52% 3.6
2021 61 26 43% 4.0

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