Idaho Antelope (Pronghorn) — Unit 30A

Idaho Unit 30A covers 176,278 acres and lies 53 miles south-east of Salmon and 86 miles north-west of St. Anthony. 88% of it is public land, mostly BLM (52%) and national forest (32%). In 2025, 37 people hunted pronghorn here and took 20 — 54% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 40 tags here for 32 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):40 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:32 Hunter success (2025):54% Public land:88% Size:176,278 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in Unit 30A, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

No points in this draw — every nonresident applicant has the same chance.

1 license on offer · 40 tags · 32 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
  • 4043 Antlerless or Antlered pronghorn, muzzleloader, Hunt Area 30A 40 tags · 32 applicants
    13% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
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
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
Idaho 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
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
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 $203 $203 $545.75

Application window: opens May 1, closes Jun 5, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Salmon St. Anthony Shelley American Falls Mountain Home
Unit 30A within Idaho
29-1 30A-1 37-1 59-1 59A-1
Unit 30A 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

  • BLM 92,184 ac · 52%
  • National Forest 57,053 ac · 32%
  • Private 20,795 ac · 12%
  • State land 6,019 ac · 3%

Source: BLM Idaho Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)

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
2025 37 20 54%
2024 40 27 68%
2023 34 16 47%
2022 40 30 75%
2021 36 19 53%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Muzzleloader 20 · 100% · 37 hunters, 54% success

What the agency says about the area

All of Unit 30A.

Source: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, pronghorn 2025 (general + controlled hunt tables)

Boundary: Controlled Hunts - All Species, BigGame='Pronghorn' AND Year=2025 (hunt-area boundaries)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, pronghorn 2025 (general + controlled hunt tables)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, pronghorn 2024 (general + controlled hunt tables)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, pronghorn 2023 (general + controlled hunt tables)

How we compute draw odds · All Idaho pronghorn hunts