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Arizona Elk — Unit 4B

Arizona Unit 4B covers 854,983 acres and lies 19 miles west of Holbrook and 29 miles north-west of Snowflake. 46% of it is public land, mostly national forest (23%) and state trust land (18%). In 2025, 327 people hunted elk here and took 134 — 41% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 50 tags here for 8 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):118 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:369 Hunter success (2025):41% Public land:46% Size:854,983 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in Unit 4B, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

6 licenses on offer · 118 tags · 369 applicants in the 2026 draw

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
  • 3002 GENERAL ELK | Bull elk | 4B 1 tags · 157 applicants
    <1% Point builder <1% as 2nd choice
  • 3014 GENERAL ELK | Bull elk | 4B 17 tags · 65 applicants · needed 8 pts
    7% Point builder 3% as 2nd choice
  • 3038 GENERAL ELK | Antlerless elk | 4B 50 tags · 8 applicants
    5% Point builder 3% as 2nd choice
  • 3096 CHAMP | Any elk | 4B 15 tags · 7 applicants
    2% Point builder 8% as 2nd choice
  • 3130 ARCHERY-ONLY ELK | Bull elk | 4B 10 tags · 130 applicants · needed 17 pts
    <1% Point builder 2% as 2nd choice
  • 3174 ARCHERY-ONLY ELK | Antlerless elk | 4B 25 tags · 2 applicants · needed 6 pts
    100% Likely draw 17% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 $825

Application window: opens Jan 13, closes Feb 3, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Holbrook Show Low Globe Prescott Valley Cave Creek
Unit 4B within Arizona
1 11M 21 22 22N 22S 23 23N 23S 2A 2B 2C 3A 3B 3BN 3C 4A 4AN 4BN 5A 5B 5BN 5BS 6A 6B 7E 7W CN Holbrook Snowflake Show Low Payson Flagstaff
Unit 4B 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

  • Private 460,619 ac · 54%
  • National Forest 196,298 ac · 23%
  • State trust land 153,131 ac · 18%
  • BLM 42,726 ac · 5%
  • State land 1,950 ac · 0%
  • Tribal 179 ac · 0%
  • County or city land 77 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.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 327 134 41%
2024 344 124 36%
2023 474 203 43%
2022 471 217 46%
2021 357 158 44%
2020 381 164 43%
2019 383 146 38%
2018 404 193 48%
2017 385 201 52%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Archery 42 · 31% · 124 hunters, 34% success
  • Firearm 92 · 69% · 203 hunters, 45% success

What the agency says about the area

Unit 4B – Beginning at AZ Hwy 260 and the Sitgreaves National Forest boundary with the Tonto National Forest; northeasterly on AZ Hwy 260 to AZ Hwy 277; northeasterly on AZ Hwy 277 to Hwy 377; northeasterly on AZ Hwy 377 to AZ Hwy 77; northeasterly on AZ Hwy 77 to I-40 Exit 286; northeasterly along the westbound lane of I-40 to Exit 292; north on AZ Hwy 77 to the Navajo Indian Reservation boundary; west along the…

Source: Arizona Game and Fish Laws and Rules Book (July 23, 2026 edition; A.R.S. Title 17 + A.A.C. Title 12, Chapter 4)

Boundary: AZ Game and Fish Hunt Units (AZGFD ArcGIS feature service, layer 0)

Harvest: 2025 AZ Elk Harvest Summary

Harvest: 2024 AZ Elk Harvest Summary

Harvest: 2023 AZ Elk Harvest Summary

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