Texas Coverage
Pineywoods Duck Migration Forecast
East Texas timber and the big impoundments, Caddo, Toledo Bend and Sam Rayburn. Flooded green timber when the bottoms take water.
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Season dates: Texas duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Pineywoods is
Pineywoods is drawn from 30 counties in Texas: Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Houston, Jasper, Marion, Morris, Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola, Polk, Red River, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Smith, Titus, Trinity, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt and Wood. 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 Pineywoods peaks
DuckCast’s season model puts the pintail peak here around mid January. 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 Pineywoods
3 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Hugo, OK, about 145 miles north, McAlester, OK, about 210 miles north and Poteau, OK, about 210 miles north. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Pineywoods
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KSHV, the National Weather Service radar at Shreveport, about 65 miles northeast 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 Pineywoods 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 Texas
Nearest first. Distances run between the regions’ weather points.
- Post Oak Savannah, about 125 miles southwest
- Blackland Prairie, about 155 miles northwest
- Upper Coast Rice Prairie, about 170 miles south
- Mid Coast Bays, about 265 miles southwest
- Rolling Plains, about 290 miles west
- Hill Country and Edwards, about 300 miles west
- South Texas and Laguna Madre, about 390 miles southwest
- High Plains Playas, about 440 miles northwest
Across the state line
- Red River and Northwest, Louisiana, about 75 miles east
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Texas Parks and Wildlife. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.