Arizona Elk · 5BN
Arizona 5BN covers 337,221 acres and lies 24 miles south-east of Flagstaff. 77% of it is public land, mostly national forest (50%) and state trust land (23%). A further 10% is tribal land rather than public land. In 2025, 492 people hunted elk here and took 195, a 40% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 3132, put up 16 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 214 nonresident first-choice applicants, 6 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 17 points.
10 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
51% Forest Service
337,221 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
- 40%
- Season
- Sep 11–24
- Tags / Apps
- 16 / 214
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 40%
- Season
- Sep 11–24
- Tags / Apps
- 24 / 3
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 40%
- Season
- Oct 10–16
- Tags / Apps
- 25 / 0
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 40%
- Season
- Oct 17–23
- Tags / Apps
- 25 / 0
- If Drawn
- $825
Every License in 5BN
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3040 | General Elk · Antlerless elk | 5% | — | |
| 3132 | Archery-Only Elk | <1% | 17 ▲1 | |
| 3154 | Archery-Only Elk | 3% (small sample) | 9 ▲2 | |
| 3176 | Archery-Only Elk · Antlerless elk | 66% | — | |
| 3805 | General · Antlerless elk | 38% (small sample) | — | |
| 3811 | Limited Opportunity (General) · Antlerless elk | 100% | — | |
| 3812 | Limited Opportunity (General) · Antlerless elk | 100% | — | |
| 3815 | Archery-Only | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| 3818 | Archery-Only | not open | — | |
| 3821 | Archery-Only · Antlerless elk | — | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.
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) | 492 | 195 | 40% |
| 2024 (summed) | — | 206 | — |
| 2023 (summed) | 493 | 191 | 39% |
| 2022 (summed) | 520 | 223 | 43% |
| 2021 (summed) | 460 | 224 | 49% |
| 2020 (summed) | — | 200 | — |
| 2019 (summed) | 438 | 189 | 43% |
| 2018 (summed) | 415 | 261 | 63% |
| 2017 (summed) | — | 256 | — |
A dash under Hunters: hunter counts not published for that year.
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archery-only bull, early | 154 | 45 | 29% |
| Archery-only bull, early (hopi) | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Archery-only bull, late | 39 | 0 | 0% |
| Archery-only bull, late (hopi) | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Archery-only antlerless | 21 | 4 | 19% |
| Archery-only antlerless (hopi) | — | — | — |
| General antlerless | 168 | 91 | 54% |
| General antlerless (hopi) | 7 | 5 | 71% |
| Limited opportunity antlerless (twin arrows hunt area) · 24 licenses | 21 | 8 | 38% |
| Limited opportunity antlerless (twin arrows hunt area) · 25 licenses | 25 | 10 | 40% |
| Limited opportunity antlerless (hopi: twin arrows hunt area) (hunt 2 of 2) | 23 | 15 | 65% |
| Limited opportunity antlerless (hopi: twin arrows hunt area) (hunt 1 of 2) | 25 | 17 | 68% |
2025 split: archery 49 (25%) from 223 hunters, 22%, firearm 146 (75%) from 269 hunters, 54%
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 2024 AZ Elk Harvest Summary; AZGFD 2023 AZ Elk Harvest Summary.
The Ground
| National Forest | 170,264 ac | 50% |
| State trust land | 75,889 ac | 23% |
| Private | 44,078 ac | 13% |
| Tribal | 34,562 ac | 10% |
| State land | 9,434 ac | 3% |
| National Park Service | 2,952 ac | <1% |
| BLM | 40 ac | <1% |
What the Agency Says About the Area
5B North Hunt Unit - That portion of Unit 5B located north of the following roads: Beginning at the junction of FH 3 (Lake Mary/Clints Well Road) and FR 125; east on FR 125 to FR 82; south on FR 82 to FR 69B; east on FR 69B to FR 69.
▸ Sources 14
- AZGFD 2026 M Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2026 Pronghorn and Elk Hunt Draw Information fees, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2026 Game and Fish Laws and Rules Book fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2025 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2024 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 2018 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2017 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. How we compute these.
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