Utah Deer — Beaver

Utah Beaver covers 1,143,582 acres and lies 48 miles north-east of Cedar City and 87 miles north-east of Hurricane. 80% of it is public land, mostly BLM (49%) and national forest (25%). In 2024, 1,710 people hunted deer here and took 794 — 46% of them killed something.

Applicants:35 Hunter success (2024):46% Public land:80% Size:1,143,582 acres

Your chance of drawing here

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

1 license on offer · 35 applicants in the 2024 draw

Chances are from the 2024 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • DB1059 Limited-entry Muzzleloader Buck Deer - Beaver — · 35 applicants
    0% Point builder
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2024 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.
Points needed
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2024 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 (2024 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Per application $16 $16 $16

Application window: opens Mar 19, closes Apr 23, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

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 562,237 ac · 49%
  • National Forest 290,580 ac · 25%
  • Private 227,317 ac · 20%
  • State trust land 59,402 ac · 5%
  • State land 3,431 ac · 0%
  • Tribal 250 ac · 0%

Source: SGID Cadastre — Land Ownership (opensgid.cadastre.land_ownership), statewide surface-ownership parcels

How the hunting has gone

What Utah Division of Wildlife Resources publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources 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.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2024 1,710 794 46%
2023 1,145 505 44%
2022 1,213 462 38%
2021 1,360 436 32%

What people carried (2024 harvest)

  • Archery 75 · 11% · 309 hunters, 24% success
  • Muzzleloader 109 · 16% · 275 hunters, 40% success
  • Firearm 516 · 74% · 909 hunters, 57% success

Boundary: Utah Big Game Hunt Boundaries 2025 (DWR hunt-unit / sub-unit boundaries, all species)

Harvest: 2024 Utah Big Game Harvest — General Season Buck Deer + Limited Entry/Once-in-a-Lifetime (all species)

Harvest: 2023 Utah Big Game Harvest — General Season Buck Deer + Limited Entry/Once-in-a-Lifetime (all species)

Harvest: 2022 Utah Big Game Harvest — General Season Buck Deer + Limited Entry/Once-in-a-Lifetime (all species)

How we compute draw odds · All Utah deer hunts