Washington Deer · GMU 530 Ryderwood
Washington GMU 530 covers 352,928 acres and lies 20 miles north-west of Longview and 41 miles south of Tumwater. 13% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (12%) and wildlife refuge (1%). In 2025, hunters took 561 deer here; hunter counts not published. Its most applied-for hunt, 1311, put up 10 nonresident tags in the 2025 draw for 525 first-choice applicants.
No more draws here. The last one was 2025.
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife held its 2026 deer draw without GMU 530. No current hunt code lists this unit; the Washington deer hunts on offer are drawn elsewhere. The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.
4 licenses
first choice, NR
2025, firearm hunter
12% State
352,928 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Best Bets at 0 Points
Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2025 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
- Success
- 32%
- Season
- Oct 17 – Nov 1
- Tags / Apps
- 10 / 525
- If Drawn
- $751.37
- Success
- 32%
- Season
- Sep 26 – Oct 4
- Tags / Apps
- 10 / 46
- If Drawn
- $751.37
Every License in GMU 530
The last draw held in GMU 530 was 2025. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1058 | Ryderwood — Quality Deer Hunt, Any buck (Modern Firearm) | 1% (small sample) | — | |
| 1311 | Ryderwood — Antlerless Deer Hunt, Antlerless (Modern Firearm) | 2% | — | |
| 1343 | Ryderwood — Antlerless Deer Hunt, Antlerless (Muzzleloader) | 22% | — | |
| 1543 · youth | Ryderwood — Youth Deer Hunt, Antlerless (Modern Firearm) | 16% | — |
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: WDFW 2025 Deer individual hunts, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2025 nonresident fees): $751.37 ($751.37 to apply). Open Apr 20 – May 27, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Deer |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 561 |
| 2024 | 621 |
| 2023 | 562 |
| 2022 | 361 |
| 2021 | 363 |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| General season | — | 556 | — |
| General season · archery | 190 | 46 | 24% |
| General season · firearm | 1,430 | 459 | 32% |
| General season · muzzleloader | 32 | 0 | 0% |
| Special permit | — | 5 | — |
2025 split: archery 46 (9%) from 190 hunters, 24%, firearm 459 (91%) from 1,430 hunters, 32%, muzzleloader 0 (0%) from 32 hunters, 0%
What Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Hunter counts not published for 2025. Washington's figures come from mandatory hunter reports. WDFW credits a multi-GMU special-permit hunt's harvest to every GMU it spans rather than splitting it, so unit totals add up to more than the statewide total. Source: WDFW 2025 Hunt Planner 'BigGame' harvest table.
The Ground
| Private | 306,692 ac | 87% |
| State trust land | 41,554 ac | 12% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 3,131 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 889 ac | <1% |
| State land | 518 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 140 ac | <1% |
▸ Sources 5
- WDFW 2025 Deer individual hunts draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WDFW 2025 Big Game Hunting Seasons and Rules fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WDFW 2025 Hunt Planner 'BigGame' harvest table harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WDFW 2026 Hunt Planner 'UnitSpatial' polygon… boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WDFW 2026 WA DNR 'Non-DNR Major Public Lands'… land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from Washington Department of Fish & 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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