Oregon Deer · Unit 16 Santiam
Oregon Unit 16 spans 2,127,257 acres, centered 24 miles south-east of Molalla. 64% of it is public land, mostly national forest (52%) and BLM (8%). In 2025, 10,316 people hunted deer here and took 3,097, a 30% success rate (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 616A1, put up 50 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 5 nonresident first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 10 points.
4 licenses · NR capped at 5%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
52% Forest Service
2,127,257 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
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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 16
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 616A1 | NW Santiam | 1% | 10 ▲1 | |
| 616A2 | SW Santiam | 2% | 8 ▲1 | |
| 616T1 · youth | SW Santiam Youth | 14% | 1 | |
| 616T2 · youth | NW Santiam Youth | 5% | 4 ▲1 |
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: ODFW 2026 Preference Point Draw Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $703 ($203 to apply). Open Dec 1, 2026 – May 15, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 10,316 | 3,097 | 30% |
| 2024 (summed) | 10,580 | 2,520 | 24% |
| 2023 (summed) | 10,188 | 2,891 | 28% |
| 2022 (summed) | 8,900 | 1,756 | 20% |
| 2021 (summed) | 8,751 | 2,063 | 24% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 119a w high cascade | 400 | 42 | 10% |
| General any legal weapon western oregon w/ 119a | 387 | 136 | 35% |
| General western deer | 7,733 | 2,529 | 33% |
| Early bow deer w/ 123r1 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Early bow deer w/ 123r2 n bank habitat bow | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Late bow deer w/ 123r1 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Late bow deer w/ 123r2 n bank habitat bow | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Early bow deer | 651 | 80 | 12% |
| Late bow deer | 926 | 174 | 19% |
| 616a1 nw santiam | 74 | 43 | 58% |
| 616a2 sw santiam | 53 | 32 | 61% |
| 616t1 sw santiam youth | 64 | 40 | 61% |
| 616t2 nw santiam youth | 26 | 21 | 80% |
2025 split: rifle 2,707 (91%) from 8,520 hunters, 32%, archery 254 (9%) from 1,579 hunters, 16%
What Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published hunt rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Oregon requires every tag holder to report, but the numbers ODFW publishes are survey estimates expanded from the reporting rate — the agency's own tables are titled "Estimated harvest... based on Mandatory Harvest Survey Reports" — not a count of animals checked in. Source: ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer…; ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by…; ODFW 2025 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest….
The Ground
| National Forest | 1,114,620 ac | 52% |
| Private | 757,709 ac | 36% |
| BLM | 167,641 ac | 8% |
| State land | 61,210 ac | 3% |
| Other public | 14,521 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 12,060 ac | <1% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 124 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 1 ac | <1% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership.
▸ Sources 20
- ODFW 2026 Preference Point Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- ODFW 2026 OAR chapter 635 division 060 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- ODFW 2026 Recreational Fee Schedule fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2026 Wildlife Management Unit boundaries boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife'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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