How much does a hunting lease cost in Hawaii?

A 300-acre hunting lease in Hawaii typically asks about $4,635 per year, with most comparable properties falling between $2,822 and $7,260. Smaller parcels cost more per acre and larger ones less.

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

About $15.45 per acre per year for a 300-acre property, which is 11% 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 Hawaii 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 Hawaii estimate?

Too few listings to stand on their own, so this rate leans heavily on the national median. It rests on 1 filtered lease listing from Hawaii. 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 Hawaii

$4,635

per year · 300 acres · Hawaii

Comparable properties list $2,822–$7,260, or about $15.45 per acre.

That is 11% below the national median of $17.32 per acre, ranking Hawaii 30 of 48 states by price.

What this rests on

Thin data

1 Hawaii listing

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

By property size

Typical Hawaii 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	$2,550	$1,632–$3,927	$63.75
100 acres	$3,346	$2,141–$5,153	$33.46
250 acres	$4,391	$2,810–$6,762	$17.56
500 acres	$5,393	$2,853–$8,861	$10.79
1,000 acres	$6,624	$2,897–$11,610	$6.62
2,500 acres	$8,693	$2,956–$16,596	$3.48

The market

Hunting Hawaii

Hawaii has essentially no hunting lease market in the mainland sense, and the game — axis deer, pigs, mouflon, goats — has no bearing on the whitetail listings the pricing model was built from. The figure shown is the national baseline, not a Hawaii measurement. Access here typically runs through guides and landowner permission rather than season leases.

Nationally, Hawaii has among the least public hunting ground in the country — ranking 50 of 50 states at 0.6% public. Neither figure feeds the estimate above; both are the ground truth a lease is negotiated against.

Axis deer
Wild pig
Mouflon sheep
Goat

Context, not price drivers — see the methodology note below.
Public hunting land	0.6% of the state 24,000 acres · 50 of 50
Leased for	Axis deer, Wild pig, Mouflon sheep, Goat

Within the state

Where Hawaii prices differ

The $15.45 per-acre figure above is a Hawaii 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.
Big Island ranches	Where axis deer, sheep and pig access is arranged, almost always through guides rather than leases.
Molokai and Lanai	Axis deer ground with tightly held private access.

Your property

Price your own Hawaii 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 Hawaii lease price

Nearby markets

How Hawaii compares

States whose hunting lease markets are priced closest to Hawaii.
State	Per acre	vs. Hawaii
Tennessee	$15.35	lower
Kansas	$15.44	lower
Missouri	$15.45	about the same
Virginia	$15.48	higher

Methodology

How we estimate Hawaii 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. 1 of those listing was in Hawaii, so the Hawaii 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.