Arkansas Coverage
Northeast Delta Duck Migration Forecast
Big Lake, the St. Francis basin and the rice ground around Jonesboro. First Arkansas dirt a bird crosses coming down the flyway.
See today’s live scoreAll of AR
Season dates: Arkansas duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Northeast Delta is
Northeast Delta is drawn from 8 counties in Arkansas: Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett, Randolph and Sharp. 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 Northeast Delta 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 Northeast Delta
4 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Dyersburg, TN, about 55 miles east, Poplar Bluff, MO, about 65 miles north, Sikeston, MO, about 85 miles northeast and Paducah, KY, about 130 miles northeast. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Northeast Delta
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KNQA, the National Weather Service radar at Memphis, about 40 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 Northeast Delta 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.
- Cache and White River Bottoms, about 65 miles southwest
- Mississippi Delta, about 75 miles south
- Grand Prairie, about 105 miles southwest
- Central Arkansas, about 140 miles southwest
- Southeast Delta, about 145 miles southwest
- Arkansas River Valley, about 160 miles west
- Ozarks and Ouachitas, about 185 miles west
- South Arkansas, about 225 miles southwest
Across the state line
- The Bootheel, Missouri, about 70 miles northeast
- North Delta, Mississippi, about 95 miles south
- Mingo Basin, Missouri, about 100 miles north
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Arkansas Game and Fish. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.