Alaska Unit 20D:bison draw odds & harvest
2 hunt codes for bison. 2025: 30 tags, 33,276 applicants per hunt.
At a glance
Bison hunt codes
2
Tags · 2025
30
across 1 hunt
Applicants · 2025
33,276
1109 per tag
Harvest success 3-yr
64–88%
Compare species at a glance
Hunt codes
Best draw odds
- Moose3% drew
- Dall sheep6% drew
- Bison1% drew
Harvest success, 3 yr
- Moose15–17%
- Dall sheep27–34%
- Bison64–88%
Hardest draw in Unit 20D2025 draw
DI40330 tags, 33,276 applied, under 1% drew.
One of Alaska's hardest bison draws: 2nd hardest of 6 in 2025.
Harvest
How hunters didin Unit 20D.
Harvest success by hunt, 2019–2025
% successAll hunters64–97%
86%
74%
97%
67%
84%
64%
88%
2019202020212022202320242025
DI40358–94%
79%
70%
94%
67%
84%
58%
87%
2019202020212022202320242025
DI40468–100%
92%
77%
100%
68%
2019202020212024
45%+28–45%Under 28%
Before you apply
- Application fee
- “For bison and muskox hunts, the fee is $10.”
- Deadline
- “Group coordinators may apply beginning Oct. 1 and ending Dec. 15, 2026 at 5 p.m.”
- Tag fee
- “Bison...........................................$900”
- Points
- “A computer then randomly assigns a “draw number” to each hunt on each valid application.”
Rules for 2027.
Map & access
Unit 20Dand the units around it
Neighbors with a FarWide page open on click.
Public land & access
Each program opens on the state's site. Check on-the-ground signage.
Offline maps
Take Unit 20Dinto your map app
Opens in onX, Gaia GPS, CalTopo, Google Earth, and Garmin. Works offline in those apps.
Members
Unit 20D hunt pack
One file, layered: the unit boundary, with each bison hunt's draw odds and harvest success attached to the unit.
- Unit boundary
- Draw odds per hunt
- Harvest success per hunt
Unit 20D · DI403
<1% drew of 33,276
Success58–87%
Ask FarWide
Answers use the same figures as this page.
Source: ADF&G