2025 Minnesota Deer Hunting Preliminary Deer Harvest Stats Released

While the 2025 firearms deer hunting season isn't completely over across the state, we're getting a look at how the 2025 season compares to last year's deer harvest.

The southern and western portions of Minnesota saw their 2025 firearms deer season wrap up on November 16, while the "100 series" deer permit areas in Northeastern Minnesota and areas 604 in the Brainerd Area, 679 in the Grand Rapids area, and 684 in the Bemidji area have until November 23.

While there are other hunts like the late season in Southeastern Minnesota at the end of November and some other special hunts before the end of the year, the final stages of the "big season" for most firearms hunters is drawing to a close.

Every year, the Minnesota DNR shares harvest statistics for the various deer seasons when everything has wrapped up, but they also offer some preliminary data before the final numbers are tallied.

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After a couple of winters in a row that have been easy on the deer population, the outlook for the 2025 season was promising. How has it shaped up?

As of today, 128,759 deer have been harvested in 2025 with a firearms license across Minnesota. This is a raw, preliminary number of deer harvested via firearm this year, and doesn't look at different seasons to date.

That said, this raw number does come in higher than the 124,462 deer taken during the normal firearms season in Minnesota in 2024.

Region-by-region, here's a look at the 2025 Minnesota deer harvest to date:

100-series deer permit areas

This is the northeastern and northcentral parts of Minnesota, spanning from Warroad southeast to places like Walker, Aitkin, and Hinckley. Also geographically included are permit areas 604 in the Brainerd area, 684 in the Bemidji area, and 679  in the Grand Rapids area. More on those later.

Not counting those three 600-series areas, the part of Minnesota in the 100-series permit areas has seen a preliminary deer harvest breakdown as follows:

2025 Doe harvest to date in 100-series hunting areas

• 2,895 Female Adult Deer
• 333 Female Juvenile Deer
• 3,228 Total Females

2025 Buck harvest to date in 100-series hunting areas

• 14,586 Male Adult Deer
• 631 Male Juvenile Deer
• 15,217 Total Males

That all adds up to a total of 18,445 deer to date.

200-series deer permit areas

This is the far western, central, and southern parts of Minnesota, including places like Thief River Falls, Marshall, Little Falls, St. Cloud, and Owatonna.

Places in and around the Twin Cities, as well as places in far Southeastern Minnesota like Rochester, Winona, and Caledonia, are geographically grouped in this part of the state, but carry different deer permit areas. More on those below.

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Not counting those 300 and 600-series areas, the part of Minnesota in the 200-series permit areas has seen a preliminary deer harvest breakdown as follows:

2025 Doe harvest to date in 200-series hunting areas

• 22,468 Female Adult Deer
• 3,884 Female Juvenile Deer
• 26,352 Total Females

2025 Buck harvest to date in 200-series hunting areas

• 42,637 Male Adult Deer
• 5,071 Male Juvenile Deer
• 47,708 Total Males

That all adds up to a total of 74,060 deer to date.

300-600-series deer permit areas

Here's a look at the remaining deer permit area preliminary results around the state as of the date of publishing:

DPA 338 (Waconia/Cologne Area) - 397 Total Deer

• Males: 261 (245 adult males, 16 juvenile males)
• Females: (122 adult females, 14 juvenile females)

DPA 341 (Red Wing/Zumbrota Area) - 1,826 Total Deer

• Males: 1,071 (962 adult males, 109 juvenile males)
• Females: 755 (638 adult females, 117 juvenile females)

DPA 601 (Twin Cities Area) - 1,491 Total Deer

• Males: 902 (797 adult males, 105 juvenile males)
• Females: 589 (514 adult females, 75 juvenile females)

DPA 604 (Brainerd Area) - 2,295 Total Deer

• Males: 1,445 (1,247 adult males, 198 juvenile males)
• Females: 850 (724 adult females, 126 juvenile females)

DPA 605 (Southern Twin Cities Suburbs, Northfield, Fairbault Area) - 1,767 Total Deer

• Males: 1,090 (948 adult males, 142 juvenile males)
• Females: 677 (560 adult females, 117 juvenile females)

DPAs 642-655 (Southeastern Minnesota) - 9,949 Total Deer

• Males: 6,013 (5,177 adult males, 836 juvenile males)
• Females: 3,936 (3,143 adult females, 793 juvenile females)

DPA 661 (East Grand Forks-Crookston Area) - 249 Total Deer

• Males: 174 (167 adult males, 7 juvenile males)
• Females: 75 (65 adult females, 10 juvenile females)

DPA 666 (Hitterdahl-Ulen Area) - 418 Total Deer

• Males: 327 (302 adult males, 25 juvenile males)
• Females: 91 (81 adult females, 10 juvenile females)

DPA 671 (Wheaton Area) - 230 Total Deer

• Males: 161 (151 adult males, 10 juvenile males)
• Females: 69 (59 adult females, 10 juvenile females)

DPA 679 (Grand Rapids Area) - 1,364 Total Deer

• Males: 921 (822 adult males, 99 juvenile males)
• Females: 443 (385 adult females, 58 juvenile females)

DPA 684 (Bemidji Area) -  2,033 Total Deer

• Males: 1,515 (1,381 adult males, 134 juvenile males)
• Females: 518 (422 adult females, 76 juvenile females)