Arkansas Coverage
Grand Prairie Duck Migration Forecast
Stuttgart and the rice country around it. Flooded rice and reservoirs feed enormous numbers of mallards once the fields go under.
See today’s live scoreAll of AR
Season dates: Arkansas duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Grand Prairie is
Grand Prairie is drawn from 4 counties in Arkansas: Arkansas, Lonoke, Monroe and Prairie. 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 Grand Prairie 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 Grand Prairie
4 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Poplar Bluff, MO, about 165 miles north, Sikeston, MO, about 190 miles northeast, Paducah, KY, about 235 miles northeast and Mount Vernon, IL, about 295 miles northeast. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Grand Prairie
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KLZK, the National Weather Service radar at Little Rock, about 50 miles northwest 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 Grand Prairie 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.
- Mississippi Delta, about 45 miles east
- Southeast Delta, about 50 miles south
- Cache and White River Bottoms, about 50 miles north
- Central Arkansas, about 55 miles west
- Arkansas River Valley, about 100 miles northwest
- Northeast Delta, about 105 miles northeast
- South Arkansas, about 125 miles southwest
- Ozarks and Ouachitas, about 160 miles northwest
Across the state line
- North Delta, Mississippi, about 65 miles east
- Central Delta, Mississippi, about 85 miles southeast
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Arkansas Game and Fish. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.