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Oregon's Southwest zone: hunting units, harvest and public land

ODFW's Southwest zone has 10 wildlife management units and is 54.4% public land, by USGS PAD-US. Adding up ODFW's rows for its units, hunters took 1,733 elk and 14,490 deer here in 2025.

Data updated October 2026. Harvest: ODFW, 2020 to 2025. Land: USGS PAD-US 4.1. Seasons: ODFW's 2026 regulations.

Map of Oregon's wildlife management units with ODFW's Southwest zone shaded: units 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30
The Southwest zone's units shaded and numbered.

ODFW's Southwest zone covers the southern Coast Range, the Umpqua and Rogue country, the Siskiyou Mountains along the California line and the west slope of the southern Cascades, from the Indigo and Dixon units down to Chetco, Applegate and Rogue.

Which units are in the Southwest zone?

Every unit in the zone with ODFW's 2025 harvest and its public land. The most elk were taken in Unit 24 Tioga (641), Unit 25 Sixes (304) and Unit 23 Melrose (164). The most public land: Unit 27 (81.9%), Unit 22 (74.6%) and Unit 21 (68.1%).

UnitNameSquare milesPublic landElk, 2025Deer, 2025Pronghorn, 2025
Unit 21Indigo1,94268.1%1101,663
Unit 22Dixon1,55674.6%1081,927
Unit 23Melrose96015.4%1642,237
Unit 24Tioga1,54834.2%6411,123
Unit 25Sixes99528.6%304666
Unit 26Powers82648.3%130621
Unit 27Chetco1,69181.9%861,021
Unit 28Applegate1,32457%371,746
Unit 29Evans Creek1,04242.7%341,499
Unit 30Rogue1,46356.6%1191,987

Harvest: ODFW harvest statistics (2020 to 2025), ODFW's rows for each unit added up across general and controlled tags. Public land measured by FilledTag from USGS PAD-US 4.1 (fee land by manager, 2025).

Controlled hunts in the Southwest zone with their own page

65 hunts with three or more years of ODFW harvest and a 2026 draw report, most tags first:

Wildlife areas and access areas in the Southwest zone

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Sources: ODFW harvest statistics (2020 to 2025); USGS PAD-US 4.1 (fee land by manager, 2025); ODFW Wildlife Management Units (Compass dataset); ODFW 2026 Oregon Big Game Hunting Regulations. FilledTag is not part of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

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