Northeast Duck Migration Forecast

Grand Lake, Oologah and the Verdigris bottoms. Green timber on the river and big open water beside it.

Season dates: Oklahoma duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing

Where Northeast is

Northeast is drawn from 11 counties in Oklahoma: Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner and Washington. 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 peaks

DuckCast’s season model puts the mallard peak here around late November. This follows the statewide mallard 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

3 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Coffeyville, KS, about 50 miles north, Joplin, MO, about 65 miles northeast and Emporia, KS, about 145 miles north. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.

Radar over Northeast

Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KINX, the National Weather Service radar at Tulsa, about 20 miles southwest 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 Northeast 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 Oklahoma

Nearest first. Distances run between the regions’ weather points.

East and Eufaula, about 75 miles south
North Central, about 100 miles west
Central, about 130 miles southwest
Southeast and Red Slough, about 160 miles south
South Central and Texoma, about 190 miles southwest
Northwest and Salt Plains, about 190 miles west
Southwest, about 240 miles southwest
Panhandle, about 315 miles west

Across the state line

Southeast Timber, Kansas, about 80 miles north
Ozarks and Ouachitas, Arkansas, about 95 miles east

Live migration map

Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.