Missouri Coverage
Northwest Missouri Duck Migration Forecast
Loess Bluffs and the Missouri River bottoms up against Iowa and Nebraska. Bob Brown and Nodaway Valley fill first and freeze first, and the snow geese stack here by the hundred thousand.
See today’s live scoreAll of MO
Season dates: Missouri duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Northwest Missouri is
Northwest Missouri is drawn from 11 counties in Missouri: Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway, Platte and Worth. 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 Northwest Missouri peaks
DuckCast’s season model puts the mallard peak here around late November. Northwest 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 Northwest Missouri
4 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Riverton, IA, about 65 miles northwest, Missouri Valley, IA, about 125 miles northwest, Carroll, IA, about 150 miles north and Ruthven, IA, about 220 miles north. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Northwest Missouri
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KEAX, the National Weather Service radar at Kansas City, about 85 miles southeast 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 Northwest 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.
- North Missouri, about 80 miles east
- West Central and the Osage, about 130 miles southeast
- Missouri River Valley, about 130 miles southeast
- Northeast and the Upper Mississippi, about 160 miles east
- The Ozarks, about 220 miles southeast
- The Confluence, about 235 miles east
- Mingo Basin, about 315 miles southeast
- The Bootheel, about 365 miles southeast
Across the state line
- Northeast Reservoirs and the Kaw, Kansas, about 85 miles southwest
- East Central Lakes, Kansas, about 100 miles south
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Missouri Department of Conservation. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.