Arizona Elk · Unit 18B
Arizona Unit 18B covers 776,451 acres and lies 50 miles west of Prescott. 60% of it is public land, mostly BLM (32%) and state trust land (27%). In 2025, 143 people hunted elk here and took 64, a 45% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 3073, put up 3 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 129 nonresident first-choice applicants, 3 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 25 points.
6 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
33% BLM
776,451 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Best Bets at 0 Points
Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
- Success
- 45%
- Season
- Oct 2–15
- Tags / Apps
- 150 / 13
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 45%
- Season
- Nov 6 – Dec 10
- Tags / Apps
- 300 / 10
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 45%
- Season
- Nov 6 – Dec 10
- Tags / Apps
- 150 / 96
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 45%
- Season
- Sep 11 – Oct 1
- Tags / Apps
- 50 / 3
- If Drawn
- $825
Every License in Unit 18B
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3073 | Limited Opportunity (General) Elk | <1% (small sample) | 25 ▲3 | |
| 3085 | Limited Opportunity (General) Elk · Antlerless elk | 100% | 0 | |
| 3086 | Limited Opportunity (General) Elk · Antlerless elk | 100% | 0 | |
| 3092 | Limited Opportunity (General) Elk | 18% | 7 ▲2 | |
| 3190 | Limited Opportunity (Archery-Only) Elk | <1% (small sample) | 23 | |
| 3191 | Limited Opportunity (Archery-Only) Elk · Antlerless elk | 100% | 0 |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: 3201, 3202, 3210, 3211.
Draw results: AZGFD 2026 M Draw Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $825 ($175 to apply). Open Jan 13 – Feb 3, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 143 | 64 | 45% |
| 2023 (summed) | 150 | 49 | 33% |
| 2022 (summed) | 132 | 45 | 34% |
| 2021 (summed) | 167 | 57 | 34% |
| 2020 (summed) | 163 | 71 | 44% |
| 2019 (summed) | 190 | 69 | 36% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limited opportunity bull (unit share) | 11 | 10 | 91% |
| Limited opportunity antlerless (unit share) (hunt 2 of 2) | 31 | 16 | 52% |
| Limited opportunity antlerless (unit share) (hunt 1 of 2) | 55 | 23 | 42% |
| Limited opportunity any elk (unit share) | 34 | 5 | 15% |
| Limited opportunity (archery-only) bull (unit share) | 10 | 10 | 100% |
| Limited opportunity (archery-only) antlerless (unit share) | 2 | 0 | 0% |
2025 split: archery 64 (100%) from 143 hunters, 45%
What Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. 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. Source: AZGFD 2025 AZ Elk Harvest Summary; AZGFD 2023 AZ Elk Harvest Summary; AZGFD 2022 AZ Elk Harvest Summary.
The Ground
| Private | 312,299 ac | 40% |
| BLM | 252,089 ac | 32% |
| State trust land | 211,937 ac | 27% |
| National Forest | 67 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 57 ac | <1% |
What the Agency Says About the Area
Unit 18B – Beginning at Bagdad; southeast on AZ Hwy 96 to the Santa Maria River; southwest along the Santa Maria River to U.S. Hwy 93; northerly on U.S. Hwy 93 to Cane Springs Wash; easterly along Cane Springs Wash to the Big Sandy River; northerly along the Big Sandy River to Trout Creek; northeasterly along Trout Creek to the Davis Dam-Prescott power line; southeasterly along the power line to the west boundary of…
▸ Sources 11
- AZGFD 2026 M Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2026 Pronghorn and Elk Hunt Draw Information fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2026 Game and Fish Laws and Rules Book fees, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2025 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2023 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2022 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2021 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2020 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2019 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2026 AZ Game and Fish Hunt Units boundary, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- Bureau of Land Management Arizona State Office with the Arizona State Land Department (Arizona Land Resources Information System, ALRIS) and Premier Data Services 2026 BLM AZ Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Arizona Game & Fish Department'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.
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