Alaska Unit 14C:brown bear draw odds & harvest
3 hunt codes for brown bear. 2025: 3 to 20 tags, 279 to 2,238 applicants per hunt.
Alaska · Unit 14C
Unit 14CNeighbor units
At a glance
Brown bear hunt codes
3
Drawing permit hunt
Tags · 2025
38
across 3 hunts
Applicants · 2025
2,978
78 per tag
Harvest success 3-yr
0–27%
Compare species at a glance
Hunt codes
- Moose16
Best draw odds
- Moose2% drew
- Brown bear4% drew
- Dall sheep14% drew
- Mountain goat56% drew
- Black bear2% drew
Harvest success, 3 yr
- Moose19–23%
- Brown bear0–27%
- Dall sheep12–33%
- Mountain goat27–45%
- Black bear0–27%
Hardest draw in Unit 14C2025 draw
DB47015 tags, 2,238 applied, 1% drew.
One of Alaska's hardest brown bear draws: 7th hardest of 128 in 2025.
Hunt codes
Brown bear huntsin Unit 14C
Whole-hunt draw results: applicants, tags and the share that drew.
| Hunt code | What it is | Draw result · 2025 | Tags | Success 3-yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DB468 | drawing permit hunt · Sep 1–May 3114C, Eklutna Lake | 4% drew of 461 | 20 | 0–11% |
| DB470 | drawing permit hunt · Sep 1–May 3114C, Chugach State | 1% drew of 2,238 | 15 | 8–27% |
| DB477 | drawing permit hunt · Oct 1–Oct 3114C, McHugh Creek | 1% drew of 279 | 3 | 0% |
Some hunt codes cover several units; the hunt page lists them all.
Harvest
How hunters didin Unit 14C.
Harvest success by hunt, 2019–2025
% successDB4680–11%
0%
7%
0%
10%
11%
0%
0%
2019202020212022202320242025
DB4700–56%
8%
11%
0%
56%
27%
8%
17%
2019202020212022202320242025
DB4770%
0%
2024
45%+28–45%Under 28%
Before you apply
- Application fee
- “For black bear, brown bear, caribou, elk, moose, mountain goat, and Dall sheep hunts, the fee is $5.”
- Deadline
- “Group coordinators may apply beginning Oct. 1 and ending Dec. 15, 2026 at 5 p.m.”
- Tag fee
- “Black bear...................................$450”
- Points
- “A computer then randomly assigns a “draw number” to each hunt on each valid application.”
Rules for 2027.
Season dates · 2026
- DB468drawing permit huntSep 1–May 31
- DB470drawing permit huntSep 1–May 31
- DB477drawing permit huntOct 1–Oct 31
Confirm in the regulations before you go.
Map & access
Unit 14Cand the units around it
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Public land & access
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Offline maps
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Members
Unit 14C hunt pack
One file, layered: the unit boundary, with each brown bear hunt's draw odds and harvest success attached to the unit.
- Unit boundary
- Draw odds per hunt
- Harvest success per hunt
Unit 14C · DB468
4% drew of 461
Success0–11%
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Answers use the same figures as this page.
Source: ADF&G