Arizona Deer — 12AW

Arizona 12AW covers 447,124 acres and lies 51 miles south-west of Page. 100% of it is public land, mostly national forest (100%). In 2025, 415 people hunted deer here and took 328 — 79% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 100 tags here for 41 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):151 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:4,279 All deer success (2025):79% Public land:100% Size:447,124 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in 12AW, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level

1015 GENERAL DEER | Any antlered deer | 12A West (excluding Grand Canyon National Park) 40 tags · 774 applicants · needed 20 pts

<1% Point builder 1% as 2nd choice
1016 GENERAL DEER | Any antlered deer | 12A West (excluding Grand Canyon National Park) 10 tags · 3,448 applicants · needed 28 pts

<1% Point builder <1% as 2nd choice
1154 YOUTH-ONLY (GENERAL) DEER | Antlerless deer | 12A West (excluding Grand Canyon National Park) 100 tags · 41 applicants

13% Point builder 2% as 2nd choice
1179 CHAMP | Any antlered deer | 12A West (excluding Grand Canyon National Park) 1 tags · 16 applicants

<1% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice

Hunt	Your odds (0 pts)	As 2nd choice	Points needed	Tags / applicants	Season
1015 ↗ GENERAL DEER \| Any antlered deer \| 12A West (excluding Grand Canyon National Park) Rifle	<1% Point builder	1%	20 −1 since 2024	40 / 774	Oct 23 – Nov 1, 2026
1016 ↗ GENERAL DEER \| Any antlered deer \| 12A West (excluding Grand Canyon National Park) Rifle	<1% Point builder	<1%	28 +9 since 2023	10 / 3,448	Nov 20–29, 2026
1154 ↗ YOUTH-ONLY (GENERAL) DEER \| Antlerless deer \| 12A West (excluding Grand Canyon National Park) Rifle	13% Point builder	2%	—	100 / 41	Oct 9–12, 2026
1179 ↗ CHAMP \| Any antlered deer \| 12A West (excluding Grand Canyon National Park) Handgun	<1% Point builder	0%	—	1 / 16	Sep 18–24, 2026

What these columns mean

Your odds: the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge: plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice: Arizona lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed: the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants: tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License	Up front	Gone if you miss	If you draw
Per application	$175	$175	$475

Application window: closes Jun 2, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

12AW within Arizona

12AW 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.

Who owns the ground

National Forest 445,817 ac · 100%
National Park Service 687 ac · 0%
BLM 589 ac · 0%
Private 20 ac · 0%
State land 10 ac · 0%

Source: BLM AZ Surface Management Agency (Polygon)

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. Arizona's figures come from AZGFD's post-season hunter questionnaire - survey estimates carrying a 90% confidence interval and a return count, not a census of animals checked in.