How much does a hunting lease cost in Florida?

A 300-acre hunting lease in Florida typically asks about $2,808 per year, with most comparable properties falling between $1,709 and $4,399. Smaller parcels cost more per acre and larger ones less.

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

About $9.36 per acre per year for a 300-acre property, which is 46% 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 Florida 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 Florida estimate?

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state. It rests on 31 filtered lease listings from Florida. 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 Florida

$2,808

per year · 300 acres · Florida

Comparable properties list $1,709–$4,399, or about $9.36 per acre.

That is 46% below the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking Florida 48 of 48 states by price.

What this rests on

Well supported

31 Florida listings

This rate comes mostly from listings in this state.

By property size

Typical Florida 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	$1,545	$989–$2,379	$38.62
100 acres	$2,027	$1,297–$3,122	$20.27
250 acres	$2,660	$1,703–$4,097	$10.64
500 acres	$3,267	$1,729–$5,368	$6.53
1,000 acres	$4,013	$1,755–$7,034	$4.01
2,500 acres	$5,266	$1,791–$10,054	$2.11

The market

Hunting Florida

Florida prices at the bottom of the national table, and 17% public hunting land is part of the picture — the state's WMA system is large and genuinely used. Florida whitetails are also notably smaller-bodied than northern deer, so the trophy demand that lifts rates in the Midwest is weaker here. Hog hunting is a real part of what a Florida lease is bought for, and it runs year-round.

Nationally, Florida has more public hunting ground than most states — ranking 15 of 50 states at 17.1% public, and a solid whitetail herd by national standards at 1.2 bucks taken per square mile. Neither figure feeds the estimate above; both are the ground truth a lease is negotiated against.

Whitetail deer
Hogs
Turkey
Waterfowl

Context, not price drivers — see the methodology note below.
Public hunting land	17.1% of the state 5,884,000 acres · 15 of 50
Bucks harvested	64,981 1.2 per square mile · 2022 season
Leased for	Whitetail deer, Hogs, Turkey, Waterfowl

Within the state

Where Florida prices differ

The $9.36 per-acre figure above is a Florida 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.
Panhandle	The best deer ground in the state, pine and hardwood bottoms leasing above the Florida average.
North Florida	Timber company tracts leased by clubs, the volume market.
South and central	Palmetto and ranch country valued heavily for hogs and Osceola turkey; deer are secondary.

Your property

Price your own Florida 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 Florida lease price

Nearby markets

How Florida compares

States whose hunting lease markets are priced closest to Florida.
State	Per acre	vs. Florida
Arizona	$9.79	higher
North Dakota	$10.77	higher
Arkansas	$11.35	higher
Maine	$11.66	higher

Methodology

How we estimate Florida 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. 31 of those listings were in Florida, so the Florida rate is drawn largely from that state's own market.

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.