Alaska Moose · Unit 18

Alaska Unit 18 spans 29,090,567 acres, centered 27 miles north-west of Nunapitchuk. In 2025, 2,005 people hunted moose here and took 1,328, a 66% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, DM612, put up 100 nonresident tags in the 2025 draw for 585 first-choice applicants.

No points in this draw. Every applicant has the same chance each year.

New for 2025: The First Draw Held Here

Unit 18 did not exist before the 2025 moose draw. The chances below are that one draw's actual results, not an estimate, and there is no point-creep trend to read yet.

NR Tags, 2025
100

1 license

Applicants
585

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
66%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
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Size
45,454 mi²

29,090,567 acres

Hooper Bay Toksook Bay Alakanuk Quinhagak Stebbins 18
66%hunter success 2025 · 2,005 hunters, 1,328 moose

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Best Bets

Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2025 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

Every License in Unit 18

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
DM612 17%

First-choice nonresident odds, 2025 draw. No points in this draw: every applicant has the same chance.

Draw results: ADF&G 2026-2027 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $965 ($165 to apply). Open Nov 1 – Dec 15, 2026 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Hunters Moose Success
2025 2,005 1,328 66%
2024 2,103 1,211 57%
2023 2,032 1,085 52%
2022 1,751 983 55%
2021 1,637 879 51%

What Alaska Department of Fish and Game publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. 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. Source: ADF&G 2025 Moose General Harvest Reports; ADF&G 2024 Moose General Harvest Reports; ADF&G 2023 Moose General Harvest Reports.

▸ Sources 9
  1. ADF&G 2026-2027 Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  2. ADF&G 2026 Drawing Hunt Information fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  3. ADF&G 2026 License, Stamp and Tag Prices fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  4. ADF&G 2025 Moose General Harvest Reports harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  5. ADF&G 2024 Moose General Harvest Reports harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. ADF&G 2023 Moose General Harvest Reports harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  7. ADF&G 2022 Moose General Harvest Reports harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  8. ADF&G 2021 Moose General Harvest Reports harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  9. ADF&G 2026 Game Management Unit and Subunit… boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from Alaska Department of Fish and Game's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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Prior-draw odds from Alaska Department of Fish and Game's results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Alaska moose hunts