Utah Deer · Zion

Utah Zion spans 1,103,098 acres, centered 22 miles east of Hurricane. 64% of it is public land, mostly BLM (39%) and national park (13%). In 2025, 2,775 people hunted deer here and took 1,437, a 52% success rate (sum of published hunt rows).

NR Tags, 2026
2

9 licenses

Applicants
522

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
52%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
64%

39% BLM

Size
1,724 mi²

1,103,098 acres

Hurricane Cedar City Zion
52%hunter success 2025 · 2,775 hunters, 1,437 deer

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Every License in Zion

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
DB1043 Standard <1% (small sample) 23 ▲2
DB1529 Standard 36% 0 ▼2
Youth 100% (small sample) 0
DB1559 Standard 10% 0 ▼3
Youth 100% 0
DB1589 Standard 100% 0 ▼1
Youth 100% (small sample) 0
DB1597 Standard 26% 0 ▼2
Youth 100% 0

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: Utah DWR 2026 Draw System DrawOddsData; Utah DWR 2026 Draw System DrawOddsData, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $764 ($165 to apply) · Youth $764 ($165 to apply). Open Mar 18 – Apr 22, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 (summed) 2,775 1,437 52%
2024 (summed) 3,080 1,342 44%
2023 (summed) 2,137 1,035 48%
2022 (summed) 1,214 649 53%
2021 (summed) 1,874 846 45%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
Limited entry on general season 15 7 47%
General season · archery 405 157 39%
General season · firearm · 1,191 licenses 1,116 694 62%
General season · muzzleloader 423 185 44%
General season · firearm · 535 licenses 479 236 49%
General season 337 158 47%

2025 split: muzzleloader 192 (15%) from 438 hunters, 44%, archery 157 (12%) from 405 hunters, 39%, firearm 930 (73%) from 1,595 hunters, 58%

What Utah Division of Wildlife Resources publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources 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. Source: Utah DWR 2025 Big Game Harvest; Utah DWR 2024 Big Game Harvest; Utah DWR 2023 Big Game Harvest.

The Ground

BLM 431,816 ac 39%
Private 395,138 ac 36%
National Park Service 144,842 ac 13%
National Forest 62,031 ac 6%
State trust land 59,968 ac 5%
State land 5,827 ac <1%
Tribal 2,402 ac <1%
Department of Defense 67 ac <1%

Source: Utah AGRC 2026 SGID Cadastre.

▸ Sources 10
  1. Utah DWR 2026 Draw System DrawOddsData draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. Utah DWR 2026 Draw System DrawOddsData draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. Utah DWR 2026 Big Game Application Guidebook fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. Utah DWR 2025 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. Utah DWR 2024 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. Utah DWR 2023 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. Utah DWR 2022 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. Utah DWR 2021 Big Game Harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. Utah DWR 2025 Big Game Hunt Boundaries boundary, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. Utah AGRC 2026 SGID Cadastre land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Utah Division of Wildlife Resources' 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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Prior-draw odds from Utah Division of Wildlife Resources' results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Utah deer hunts