Idaho Deer · Unit 32A

Idaho Unit 32A covers 381,929 acres and lies 28 miles south of McCall and 39 miles north-east of Weiser. 71% of it is public land, mostly national forest (58%) and BLM (9%). In 2025, 2,624 people hunted deer here and took 430, a 16% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 1024, put up 30 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 67 nonresident first-choice applicants, 3 of whom drew.

No points in this draw. Every applicant has the same chance each year.

Tags, 2026
30

1 license · NR capped at 10%

Applicants
67

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
16%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
71%

59% Forest Service

Size
597 mi²

381,929 acres

McCall Weiser Payette Emmett Star 32A
16%hunter success 2025 · 2,624 hunters, 430 deer

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Best Bets

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.

Every License in Unit 32A

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
1024 4% (small sample)

First-choice nonresident odds, 2026 draw. No points in this draw: every applicant has the same chance.

Draw results: IDFG 2026 Hunt Planner drawing odds, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $554.75 ($203 to apply). Open May 1 – Jun 5, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 2,624 430 16%
2024 2,066 380 18%
2023 2,584 424 16%
2022 3,031 523 17%
2021 2,787 523 19%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
1024 28 22 79%

2025 split: firearm 382 (89%) from 2,134 hunters, 18%, archery 45 (10%) from 485 hunters, 9%, muzzleloader 3 (1%)

What Idaho Department of Fish and Game publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Idaho's figures are counts from mandatory hunter reports and check stations rather than survey estimates, so they behave differently from the survey states. Source: IDFG 2025 Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer; IDFG 2024 Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer; IDFG 2023 Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer.

The Ground

National Forest 223,386 ac 58%
Private 111,338 ac 29%
BLM 33,676 ac 9%
State land 13,312 ac 3%
Other public 216 ac <1%

Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency.

What the Agency Says About the Area

All of Unit 32A.

Source: IDFG 2025 Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer.

▸ Sources 9
  1. IDFG 2026 Hunt Planner drawing odds draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. IDFG 2026 License, Tag, and Permit Costs fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. IDFG 2025 Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. IDFG 2024 Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. IDFG 2023 Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. IDFG 2022 Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. IDFG 2021 Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. IDFG 2025 Controlled hunt area boundaries boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State Office 2026 BLM Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Idaho Department of Fish and Game'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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Prior-draw odds from Idaho Department of Fish and Game's results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Idaho deer hunts