How much does a hunting lease cost in Arizona?

A 300-acre hunting lease in Arizona typically asks about $2,937 per year, with most comparable properties falling between $1,788 and $4,601. Smaller parcels cost more per acre and larger ones less.

What is the average price per acre for hunting land in Arizona?

About $9.79 per acre per year for a 300-acre property, which is 44% below the national median of $17.32. Per-acre rates fall as properties get larger, so this figure is quoted at a fixed 300 acres to stay comparable between states.

Are these Arizona lease prices what hunters actually pay?

No. Every figure here is an asking price — what landowners list at, not what a lease finally closes for. The model is fit on listing data, so it reflects what a property is likely to be advertised at.

How reliable is the Arizona estimate?

Too few listings to stand on their own, so this rate leans heavily on the national median. It rests on 6 filtered lease listings from Arizona. Across all states, roughly half of real listings fall inside the range shown, and state and acreage together explain about a quarter of the variation in asking price.

Hunting Lease Prices in Arizona

$2,937

per year · 300 acres · Arizona

Comparable properties list $1,788–$4,601, or about $9.79 per acre.

That is 44% below the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking Arizona 47 of 48 states by price.

What this rests on

Thin data

6 Arizona listings

Too few listings to stand on their own, so this rate leans heavily on the national median.

By property size

Typical Arizona lease prices

Yearly asking prices for a property with no amenities or premium habitat specified. Adding food plots, a cabin or a trophy species raises the estimate; the calculator below accounts for those.
Property size	Typical asking price	Usual range	Per acre
40 acres	$1,616	$1,034–$2,488	$40.39
100 acres	$2,120	$1,357–$3,265	$21.20
250 acres	$2,782	$1,781–$4,285	$11.13
500 acres	$3,417	$1,808–$5,615	$6.83
1,000 acres	$4,197	$1,836–$7,357	$4.20
2,500 acres	$5,508	$1,873–$10,516	$2.20

The market

Hunting Arizona

Nearly 45% of Arizona is public hunting ground and the state's tag system, not land access, is the real bottleneck — a lease cannot get you a draw. Private leases here tend to cover ranch country in the units people already have tags for, which keeps per-acre rates near the bottom of the national table. Coues deer and elk drive most of the private interest.

Nationally, Arizona has among the most public hunting ground in the country — ranking 7 of 50 states at 44.8% public, and very few whitetails per square mile at 0.06 bucks taken per square mile. Neither figure feeds the estimate above; both are the ground truth a lease is negotiated against.

Elk
Mule deer
Coues deer
Javelina

Context, not price drivers — see the methodology note below.
Public hunting land	44.8% of the state 32,539,000 acres · 7 of 50
Bucks harvested	6,700 0.06 per square mile · 2022 season
Leased for	Elk, Mule deer, Coues deer, Javelina

Within the state

Where Arizona prices differ

The $9.79 per-acre figure above is a Arizona average. These are the sub-markets it averages over, and they do not trade alike:

Directional, not measured — the estimate is fitted at state level and has no sub-state resolution.
Rim country and White Mountains	Elk ground at elevation; private ranch parcels here carry the state's real lease value.
Sonoran Desert	Low desert holding Coues deer and javelina, leased cheaply where leased at all.
Strip and northwest	Trophy mule deer units where a tag, not a lease, is the scarce thing.

Your property

Price your own Arizona land

The table above assumes nothing about your land beyond its size. Add your game species, habitat, forage and amenities for an estimate that reflects the property you actually have.

Calculate a Arizona lease price

Nearby markets

How Arizona compares

States whose hunting lease markets are priced closest to Arizona.
State	Per acre	vs. Arizona
Florida	$9.36	lower
North Dakota	$10.77	higher
Arkansas	$11.35	higher
Maine	$11.66	higher

Methodology

How we estimate Arizona lease prices

The estimate comes from a model fit on 979 filtered hunting lease listings across 48 states. A state's rate and the way price scales with acreage are both measured from that data. 6 of those listings were in Arizona, so the Arizona rate is pulled most of the way back toward the national median, which is what the model does when a state cannot support its own estimate.

Three things are worth knowing before you quote these numbers:

These are asking prices. They are what landowners list at, not what a lease closes for.
State and size explain about a quarter of the variation. Roughly half of real listings fall inside the range shown, which is what two features can support — it is the honest width of the answer, not a rough edge waiting to be tuned out.
The land and deer figures above are context, not inputs. They come from Backcountry Chronicles (public hunting acreage) and the National Deer Association's 2024 Deer Report (2022 buck harvest). Neither feeds the estimate, and both correlate only weakly with what states actually charge.
Habitat, game and amenity adjustments are expert judgement, not fit from data — the listing feed does not carry those fields. They are set to be neutral on an average property, so they nudge the estimate rather than drive it.