Ohio Wild Turkey Season Harvest Totals
COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio’s Wild turkey hunters checked 16,014 birds during the spring 2025 season which concluded on Sunday, June 1, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The total statewide harvest represents all turkeys checked from April 19 to June 1, along with the 1,740 birds taken during the two-day youth season, April 12-13.
The top 11 counties for wild turkeys taken in 2025:
1. Ashtabula (516)
2. Monroe (462)
3. Belmont (459)
4. Guernsey (419)
5. Muskingum (406)
6. Trumbull (403)
7. Tuscarawas (401)
8. Carroll (396)
9. Meigs (376)
10. Columbiana (372)
11. Coshocton (372)
The Division of Wildlife issued 52,693 spring turkey permits for use during the spring 2025 hunting season.
In 2024, the total number of turkeys checked was 15,535. The three-year average for the spring season (2022, 2023, and 2024) is 14,361.
The Division of Wildlife began an extensive program in the 1950s to restore wild turkeys to the Buckeye State after they were extirpated in the early 1900s. Ohio’s first modern day wild turkey hunting season opened in 1966 in nine counties, and hunters checked 12 birds. The total number of turkeys harvested topped 1,000 for the first time in 1984. Turkey hunting was opened statewide in 2000. The highest Ohio wild turkey harvest was in 2001, when hunters checked 26,156 birds.
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