Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 15 Southeast Wyoming

Wyoming Hunt Area 15 spans 3,391,636 acres, centered 20 miles south-west of Torrington. 12% of it is public land, mostly state land (8%) and military (2%). In 2025, 1,438 people hunted mule deer here and took 737, a 51% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 15-3, put up 96 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 58 first-choice applicants.

NR Tags, 2026
624

7 licenses

Applicants
239

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
51%

2025, mule deer

Public Land
12%

8% State

Size
5,299 mi²

3,391,636 acres

Cheyenne Lusk Hanna Evansville 15
51%hunter success 2025 · 1,438 hunters, 737 deer

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, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

Every License in Hunt Area 15

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
15-3 Regular 100% 0
Special 100% 0
Landowner 100% —
15-7 Reduced price · private 23% —
Landowner reduced price · private 100% —
15-8 Reduced price 100% —
Landowner reduced price 100% —

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: 15-6.

Draw results: WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report and 2 more, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Regular $410.50 ($389 to apply) · Special $1,236.50 ($1,215 to apply) · Reduced price $70.50 ($49 to apply) · Landowner $36.50 ($15 to apply) · Landowner reduced price $36.50 ($15 to apply). Open Jan 2 – Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Mule Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 1,438 737 51%
2024 1,456 659 45%
2023 1,349 631 47%
2022 1,486 658 44%
2021 1,494 640 43%

White-tailed Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 1,167 370 32%
2024 1,268 512 40%
2023 1,058 490 46%
2022 1,153 436 38%
2021 1,233 514 42%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
Mule deer · 154 licenses 116 79 68%
Mule deer 1,372 658 48%
White-tailed deer · 500 licenses 392 162 41%
White-tailed deer · 154 licenses 33 6 18%
White-tailed deer · 451 licenses 291 109 38%
White-tailed deer 590 93 16%

2025 split: archery 17 (2%), firearm 720 (98%) · residents 494 from 1,074 hunters, nonresidents 243 from 364 hunters

What Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Wyoming's figures are estimates from a voluntary post-season survey of license holders, extrapolated to every license issued — not a count of animals checked in. Source: WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest…; WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report; WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report.

The Ground

Private 2,974,292 ac 88%
State land 273,539 ac 8%
Department of Defense 71,682 ac 2%
BLM 45,661 ac 1%
Other public 14,812 ac <1%
County or city land 9,440 ac <1%
Bureau of Reclamation 1,096 ac <1%
National Park Service 830 ac <1%

Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency.

▸ Sources 14
  1. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  4. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. WGFD 2026 License Fee List fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. WGFD 2026 Game and Fish Commission Chapter 44 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest… harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  11. WGFD 2022 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  12. WGFD 2021 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  13. WGFD 2026 Deer Hunt Areas boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  14. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Wyoming Game and Fish 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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