Idaho Elk — Unit 54-1X
Idaho Unit 54-1X covers 421,376 acres and lies 24 miles south-west of Burley. 71% of it is public land, mostly national forest (50%) and BLM (19%). In 2022, 39 people hunted elk here and took 21 — 54% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 54-1X in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Idaho elk 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
- National Forest 209,294 ac · 50%
- Private 122,642 ac · 29%
- BLM 81,371 ac · 19%
- State land 8,066 ac · 2%
Source: BLM Idaho Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)
Nearby areas
How the hunting has gone
What Idaho Department of Fish and Game publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Idaho Department of Fish and Game 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. Idaho's figures are counts from mandatory hunter reports and check stations rather than survey estimates, so they behave differently from the survey states.
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 39 | 21 | 54% |
| 2021 | 17 | 5 | 29% |
What people carried (2022 harvest)
- Firearm 21 · 100% · 39 hunters, 54% success
Boundary: Controlled Hunts - All Species, BigGame='Elk' AND Year=2025 (hunt-area boundaries)
Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, elk 2022 (general + controlled hunt tables)
Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, elk 2021 (general + controlled hunt tables)