Missouri Coverage
North Missouri Duck Migration Forecast
Swan Lake and Fountain Grove in the Grand River bottoms. Big managed marsh and cut grain that peaks the last week of November and is usually iced by mid-December.
See today’s live scoreAll of MO
Season dates: Missouri duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where North Missouri is
North Missouri is drawn from 14 counties in Missouri: Adair, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Mercer, Putnam, Ray and Sullivan. 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 North Missouri peaks
DuckCast’s season model puts the mallard peak here around late November. North Missouri carries its own mallard timing rather than the statewide curve, because the season here runs on a different clock from the rest of the state. 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 North Missouri
4 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Riverton, IA, about 130 miles northwest, Muscatine, IA, about 165 miles northeast, Carroll, IA, about 175 miles northwest and Missouri Valley, IA, about 180 miles northwest. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over North Missouri
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KEAX, the National Weather Service radar at Kansas City, about 85 miles southwest of the region’s weather point. That is well outside the region, so treat the radar reading as area context rather than a measurement of this ground. 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 North Missouri 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 Missouri
Nearest first. Distances run between the regions’ weather points.
- Missouri River Valley, about 70 miles southeast
- Northwest Missouri, about 80 miles west
- Northeast and the Upper Mississippi, about 80 miles east
- West Central and the Osage, about 105 miles south
- The Confluence, about 160 miles southeast
- The Ozarks, about 170 miles southeast
- Mingo Basin, about 250 miles southeast
- The Bootheel, about 300 miles southeast
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Missouri Department of Conservation. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.