Montana Deer · Hunting District 455
Montana Hunting District 455 covers 42,004 acres and lies 24 miles north of East Helena and 45 miles north of Townsend. 99% of it is public land, mostly state land (75%) and national forest (23%). In 2025, 107 people hunted deer here and took 35, a 33% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 455-60, put up 1 tag (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 45 nonresident first-choice applicants.
4 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all deer
76% State
42,004 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Every License in Hunting District 455
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 455-00 Standard | Deer B License 455-00 — Antlerless White-tailed Deer | 17% (small sample) | — | |
| 455-00 Landowner | Deer B License 455-00 — Antlerless White-tailed Deer | 100% (small sample) | — | |
| 455-60 Standard | Deer Permit 455-60 | <1% (small sample) | — | |
| 455-60 Landowner | Deer Permit 455-60 | 100% (small sample) | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: 455-20, 455-70.
Draw results: Montana FWP 2026 Deer B License Drawing Statistics…; Montana FWP 2026 Deer Permit Drawing Statistics Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $92.50 ($92.50 to apply) · Landowner $92.50 ($92.50 to apply). Deadlines: Apr 1, 2027 (expected) for the main draw · Jun 1, 2027 (expected) for B license. Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
All deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | 35 | 33% |
| 2024 | — | 34 | — |
| 2023 | 73 | 31 | 42% |
| 2022 | — | 36 | — |
Mule Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | — | 20 | — |
| 2024 | — | 6 | — |
| 2023 | — | 7 | — |
| 2022 | — | 12 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 16 | — |
| 2024 | — | 27 | — |
| 2023 | — | 24 | — |
| 2022 | — | 24 | — |
A dash under Hunters: hunter counts not published for that year or sub-species.
2025 split: nonresidents 6 from 14 hunters, residents 29 from 93 hunters
What Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes no whole-hunting district line for some years; a year's total is the sum of published rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Montana's figures blend mandatory reporting with a phone and mail survey. FWP does not publish district-level hunter counts for elk or antelope, so success rates are missing for those. Source: Montana FWP 2025 Deer Harvest Estimates; Montana FWP 2024 Deer Harvest Estimates; Montana FWP 2023 Deer Harvest Estimates.
The Ground
| State land | 31,680 ac | 75% |
| National Forest | 9,732 ac | 23% |
| State trust land | 247 ac | <1% |
| BLM | 100 ac | <1% |
| Private | 50 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 0 ac | <1% |
| Department of Defense | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 0 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 0 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 0 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 0 ac | <1% |
Source: Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District….
What the Agency Says About the Area
Elk Management Unit: Devil's Kitchen
▸ Sources 12
- Montana FWP 2026 Deer B License Drawing Statistics… draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Deer Permit Drawing Statistics Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana Legislature 2026 MCA 87-2-113 Application fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana Legislature 2026 MCA 87-2-116 Base hunting license… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Hunting Requirements fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Nonresident License Fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2025 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2024 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2023 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2022 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Deer and Elk Hunting Districts boundary, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District… land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks' 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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