Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 33

Red Fork

Wyoming Hunt Area 33 covers 275,530 acres and lies 46 miles south of Buffalo and 56 miles north-west of Bar Nunn. 42% of it is public land, mostly BLM (33%) and state land (10%). In 2025, 469 people hunted mule deer here and took 227 — 48% of them killed something. The 2022 draw put up 495 nonresident tags here for 30 first-choice applicants.

Nonresident tags (2022):495 Applicants:30 Mule Deer success (2025):48% Public land:42% Size:275,530 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Hunt Area 33, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

1 license on offer · 495 tags · 30 applicants in the 2022 draw

Chances are from the 2022 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 33-8 Doe or fawn white-tailed deer valid on private land 495 tags · 30 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2022 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.
As 2nd choice
Wyoming lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2022 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 (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Per application $49 $15 $70.50

Application window: opens Jan 2, closes Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Buffalo Bar Nunn Worland Wright Thermopolis
Hunt Area 33 within Wyoming
163 164 169 19 22 29 30 31 32 34 35 36 39 40 41
Hunt Area 33 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 166,895 ac · 61%
  • BLM 89,612 ac · 33%
  • State land 27,096 ac · 10%
  • Other public 92 ac · 0%
  • County or city land 0 ac · 0%

Source: BLM WY Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)

How the hunting has gone

What Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. 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.

Mule Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
2025 469 227 48% 8.6
2024 604 281 47% 8.7
2023 569 292 51% 7.4
2022 436 175 40% 11.1
2021 570 198 35% 11.8

White-tailed Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
2025 190 41 22% 12.5
2024 298 85 28% 8.0
2023 245 28 11% 26.3
2022 259 103 40% 5.1
2021 378 123 33% 10.6

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Archery 10 · 4%
  • Firearm 258 · 96%

Residents vs nonresidents (2025)

  • Resident 127 taken · 402 hunters
  • Nonresident 141 taken · 257 hunters

Boundary: Deer Hunt Areas (Wyoming Game and Fish Department)

Harvest: Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer 2025 Harvest Report

Harvest: Deer 2024 Harvest Report

Harvest: Deer 2023 Harvest Report

How we compute draw odds · All Wyoming deer hunts