Texas Deer · I.D. Fairchild State Forest

In 2025, 12 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 3, a 25% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, YDE-FA, put up 12 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw.

Tags, 2025
12

1 license

Applicants
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first choice, NR

Hunter Success
25%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
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Size
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Texas Parks & Wildlife Department does not publish a mapped boundary for I.D. Fairchild State Forest, so there is no map to draw.

Every License in I.D. Fairchild State Forest

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
YDE-FA · youth 15% —

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.

Draw results: TPWD 2026-2027 Drawn Hunt Catalog, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $318 ($3 to apply). Open Jul 1 – Aug 15, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 (summed) 12 3 25%
2024 (summed) 12 8 67%
2023 (summed) 12 10 83%
2022 (summed) 12 10 83%
2021 (summed) 12 8 67%
2020 (summed) 12 15 —
2019 (summed) 12 11 92%
2018 (summed) 12 7 58%
2017 (summed) 12 13 —
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
White-tailed deer 12 3 75%

2025 split: firearm 3 (100%) from 12 hunters, 25%

What Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Source: TPWD 2025-26 Hunts Harvest Summary, season; TPWD 2024-25 Hunts Harvest Summary, season; TPWD 2023-24 Hunts Harvest Summary, season.

What the Agency Says About the Area

TPWD hunt area type: Other State Areas; 2,740 acres published as available for TPWD drawn hunts; Texas A&M Forest Service State Forest; no published boundary layer was obtainable

Source: TPWD 2026-27 Public Hunt Drawing System.

▸ Sources 13
  1. TPWD 2026-2027 Drawn Hunt Catalog draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  2. TPWD 2026 Drawn Hunts fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  3. TPWD 2026 Outdoor Annual fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  4. TPWD 2025-26 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  5. TPWD 2024-25 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. TPWD 2023-24 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  7. TPWD 2022-23 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  8. TPWD 2021-22 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  9. TPWD 2020-21 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  10. TPWD 2019-20 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  11. TPWD 2018-19 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  12. TPWD 2017-18 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  13. TPWD 2026-27 Public Hunt Drawing System area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from Texas Parks & Wildlife Department'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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