Arkansas Coverage
Central Arkansas Duck Migration Forecast
Little Rock out to the lakes west of it. Mostly a drive-through on the way to the Grand Prairie, with scattered small-water hunts.
See today’s live scoreAll of AR
Season dates: Arkansas duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Central Arkansas is
Central Arkansas is drawn from 4 counties in Arkansas: Grant, Hot Spring, Pulaski and Saline. 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 Central Arkansas 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 Central Arkansas
3 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Springfield, MO, about 180 miles north, Poplar Bluff, MO, about 180 miles northeast and Columbia, MO, about 295 miles north. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Central Arkansas
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KLZK, the National Weather Service radar at Little Rock, about 12 miles northeast of the region’s weather point. That is close enough for the radar to sample the air over the region itself. 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 Central Arkansas 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.
- Arkansas River Valley, about 50 miles northwest
- Grand Prairie, about 55 miles east
- Cache and White River Bottoms, about 75 miles northeast
- Southeast Delta, about 85 miles southeast
- South Arkansas, about 90 miles southwest
- Mississippi Delta, about 95 miles east
- Ozarks and Ouachitas, about 120 miles northwest
- Northeast Delta, about 140 miles northeast
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Arkansas Game and Fish. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.