Utah Deer — East Zion

Utah East Zion covers 5,537 acres and lies 30 miles east of Hurricane. 10% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (10%). In 2025, 10 people hunted deer here and took 8 — 80% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):80% Public land:10% Size:5,537 acres

Your chance of drawing here

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

1 license on offer in the 2025 draw

Chances are from the 2025 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • DB1234 CWMU Buck Deer - East Zion — · 0 applicants
    No draw held
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2025 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 2025 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 (2025 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Per application $136 $136 $554

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

The country

Hurricane Cedar City Santaquin Saratoga Springs Magna metro township
East Zion within Utah
Mt Carmel Zion
East Zion 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

  • Private 4,970 ac · 90%
  • State trust land 562 ac · 10%
  • BLM 3 ac · 0%
  • National Park Service 0 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
2025 10 8 80%
2024 11 6 55%
2023 19 12 63%
2022 19 13 68%
2021 20 11 55%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Firearm 8 · 100% · 10 hunters, 80% success

Boundary: CWMU Analysis 2024 — Existing CWMUs (Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit boundaries, private-land hunts)

Harvest: 2025 Utah Big Game Harvest (preliminary) — single combined report, all species and hunt types

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)

How we compute draw odds · All Utah deer hunts