Arkansas Coverage
Arkansas River Valley Duck Migration Forecast
Dardanelle and the Holla Bend country. A narrower corridor than the delta, but the river pool holds ducks when small water locks up.
See today’s live scoreAll of AR
Season dates: Arkansas duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Arkansas River Valley is
Arkansas River Valley is drawn from 8 counties in Arkansas: Conway, Faulkner, Johnson, Logan, Perry, Pope, Van Buren and Yell. Those are the counties its shape on the DuckCast map is built from, so a hunter in any of them reads this region’s score.
When Arkansas River Valley peaks
DuckCast’s season model puts the pintail peak here around mid December. This follows the statewide pintail curve. That is a modelled typical curve, not a prediction for any single year. The actual push depends on cold fronts and freeze-up upstream, which is what the daily score tracks. Always confirm season dates with the state wildlife agency, linked below.
What DuckCast watches upstream of Arkansas River Valley
3 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Springfield, MO, about 145 miles north, Poplar Bluff, MO, about 185 miles northeast and Columbia, MO, about 265 miles north. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Arkansas River Valley
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KLZK, the National Weather Service radar at Little Rock, about 50 miles southeast of the region’s weather point. That puts the radar just outside the region, near enough to see birds lifting off and passing close by. Radar sees every bird in the air, not only ducks, so it confirms or questions the score rather than moving it.
Locations stay generalized
Hunter reports for Arkansas River Valley are always shown at the region level. DuckCast never collects or displays exact coordinates, so filing a report here never burns a spot.
Also covered in Arkansas
Nearest first. Distances run between the regions’ weather points.
- Central Arkansas, about 50 miles southeast
- Ozarks and Ouachitas, about 75 miles northwest
- Cache and White River Bottoms, about 100 miles east
- Grand Prairie, about 100 miles southeast
- South Arkansas, about 110 miles south
- Southeast Delta, about 130 miles southeast
- Mississippi Delta, about 135 miles east
- Northeast Delta, about 160 miles east
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Arkansas Game and Fish. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.