Oklahoma Coverage
Northwest and Salt Plains Duck Migration Forecast
Great Salt Plains, Canton and the Cimarron breaks. A refuge complex that concentrates birds when the country around it is dry.
See today’s live scoreAll of OK
Season dates: Oklahoma duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Northwest and Salt Plains is
Northwest and Salt Plains is drawn from 9 counties in Oklahoma: Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Kingfisher, Major, Woods and Woodward. 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 and Salt Plains 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 Northwest and Salt Plains
3 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Pratt, KS, about 70 miles north, Dodge City, KS, about 110 miles northwest and Liberal, KS, about 125 miles west. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Northwest and Salt Plains
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KVNX, the National Weather Service radar at Vance, about 35 miles east 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 Northwest and Salt Plains 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.
- North Central, about 90 miles east
- Central, about 115 miles southeast
- Southwest, about 120 miles south
- Panhandle, about 130 miles west
- South Central and Texoma, about 185 miles southeast
- Northeast, about 190 miles east
- East and Eufaula, about 205 miles southeast
- Southeast and Red Slough, about 260 miles southeast
Across the state line
- Quivira and the Rattlesnake, Kansas, about 95 miles north
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.