Arizona Deer — Unit 16A
Arizona Unit 16A covers 1,580,165 acres and lies 28 miles east of Lake Havasu City and 40 miles south of Kingman. 81% of it is public land, mostly BLM (75%) and state trust land (5%). In 2025, 568 people hunted deer here and took 95 — 17% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 17 tags here for 63 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 8 points.
Your chance of drawing here
Every deer license type on offer in Unit 16A, 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-
1023 GENERAL DEER | Any antlered deer | 16A (excluding Mohave County Park Lands) 17 tags · 63 applicants · needed 8 pts7% Point builder 9% as 2nd choice
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1198 YOUTH-ONLY (MUZZLELOADER) DEER | Any antlered deer | 16A (excluding Mohave County Park Lands) 1 tags · 11 applicants4% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
| Hunt | Your odds (0 pts) | As 2nd choice | Points needed | Tags / applicants | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1023 ↗ GENERAL DEER | Any antlered deer | 16A (excluding Mohave County Park Lands) Rifle | 7% Point builder | 9% | 8 +3 since 2024 | 17 / 63 | Oct 23 – Nov 1, 2026 |
| 1198 ↗ YOUTH-ONLY (MUZZLELOADER) DEER | Any antlered deer | 16A (excluding Mohave County Park Lands) Muzzleloader | 4% Point builder | 0% | — | 1 / 11 | Nov 20–29, 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
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- BLM 1,180,380 ac · 75%
- Private 299,197 ac · 19%
- State trust land 82,336 ac · 5%
- Department of Defense 10,399 ac · 1%
- Bureau of Reclamation 3,053 ac · 0%
- National Wildlife Refuge 2,540 ac · 0%
- Other public 2,241 ac · 0%
- State land 16 ac · 0%
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.
All deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 568 | 95 | 17% |
| 2024 | 489 | 126 | 26% |
| 2023 | 467 | 150 | 32% |
| 2022 | 447 | 71 | 16% |
| 2021 | 595 | 111 | 19% |
| 2020 | 675 | 180 | 27% |
| 2019 | 674 | 119 | 18% |
| 2018 | 568 | 169 | 30% |
Mule Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 95 | — |
| 2024 | — | 126 | — |
| 2023 | — | 150 | — |
| 2022 | — | 71 | — |
| 2021 | — | 108 | — |
| 2020 | — | 180 | — |
| 2019 | — | 119 | — |
| 2018 | — | 169 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | — | 3 | — |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Firearm 138 · 73% · 211 hunters, 65% success
- Archery 52 · 27% · 357 hunters, 15% success
What the agency says about the area
Unit 16A – Beginning at Kingman on I-40 (Exit 48); south and west on I-40 to U.S. Hwy 95 (Exit 9); southerly on U.S. Hwy 95 to the Bill Williams River; easterly along the Bill Williams and Santa Maria rivers to U.S. Hwy 93; north on U.S. Hwy 93 to I-40 (Exit 71); west on I-40 to Kingman (Exit 48).
Boundary: AZ Game and Fish Hunt Units (AZGFD ArcGIS feature service, layer 0)
Harvest: 2025 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary
Harvest: 2025 AZ Deer Harvest Summary (draw hunts only)
Harvest: 2024 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary