Arizona Deer — Unit 25M
Arizona Unit 25M covers 804,394 acres and lies 2 miles west of Paradise Valley and 11 miles east of Glendale. 13% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (6%) and other public land (5%). In 2025, 269 people hunted deer here and took 17 — 6% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Arizona Game & Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Unit 25M in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Arizona deer hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- Private 638,822 ac · 79%
- Tribal 64,594 ac · 8%
- State trust land 46,207 ac · 6%
- Other public 42,818 ac · 5%
- Bureau of Reclamation 4,866 ac · 1%
- Department of Defense 3,288 ac · 0%
- BLM 2,133 ac · 0%
- County or city land 1,637 ac · 0%
- State land 19 ac · 0%
- National Forest 6 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 | 269 | 17 | 6% |
| 2024 | 235 | 22 | 9% |
| 2023 | 111 | 7 | 6% |
| 2022 | 224 | 19 | 8% |
| 2021 | 278 | 31 | 11% |
| 2020 | 222 | 27 | 12% |
| 2019 | 285 | 29 | 10% |
| 2018 | 157 | 10 | 6% |
Mule Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 17 | — |
| 2024 | — | 22 | — |
| 2023 | — | 7 | — |
| 2022 | — | 12 | — |
| 2021 | — | 31 | — |
| 2020 | — | 27 | — |
| 2019 | — | 29 | — |
| 2018 | — | 10 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | — | 6 | — |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Archery 34 · 100% · 269 hunters, 13% success
What the agency says about the area
Unit 25M – Beginning at the junction of 51st Ave. and I-10; west on I-10 to AZ Loop 303, northeasterly on AZ Loop 303 to I-17; north on I-17 to Carefree Hwy; east on Carefree Hwy to Cave Creek Rd.; northeasterly on Cave Creek Rd. to the Tonto National Forest boundary; easterly and southerly along the Tonto National Forest boundary to Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation boundary; northeasterly along the Fort McDowell…
Boundary: AZ Game and Fish Hunt Units (AZGFD ArcGIS feature service, layer 0)
Harvest: 2025 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary
Harvest: 2024 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary
Harvest: 2023 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary