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NOAA Weather Radio in Colorado

Every NOAA Weather Radio frequency and SAME alert code in Colorado, by county, from National Weather Service data. Find your county below, program the frequency and code into your weather radio, and it will wake you for the warnings that matter.

Prefer to search? The NOAA Weather Radio Finder looks up any county instantly. New to this? See how the warnings are made and the weather radio buyer's guide.

The seven NOAA Weather Radio frequencies are the same everywhere in the country - see what the NOAA Weather Radio frequencies are and how to pick the one for your area.

These codes go into a radio that can hold them: the Midland WR120B (Amazon) at home, the ER310 (Amazon) for the bag. Both explained at the bottom of this page.

CountySAME codeMHzStation (site)
Adams008001162.450
162.475
162.500
162.550
KEC76 (Denver), WNG550 (Franktown), WXJ45 (Deer Trail), WXM51 (Mead/Longmont)
Alamosa008003162.475WXM54 (Alamosa)
Arapahoe (WESTERN)008005162.450
162.475
162.500
162.550
KEC76 (Denver), WNG550 (Franktown), WXJ45 (Deer Trail), WXM51 (Mead/Longmont)
Archuleta (WESTERN 1/3)008007162.425KWN54 (Durango)
Baca (Northern 1/2)008009162.400
162.525
KWN60 (Lamar), WNG664 (Springfield)
Bent008011162.400
162.500
162.525
KWN60 (Lamar), WNG664 (Springfield), WWG23 (La Junta)
Boulder (ALL)008013162.450
162.475
162.500
WNG550 (Franktown), WXJ45 (Deer Trail), WXM51 (Mead/Longmont)
Broomfield008014162.450
162.475
162.500
162.550
KEC76 (Denver), WNG550 (Franktown), WXJ45 (Deer Trail), WXM51 (Mead/Longmont)
Cheyenne008017162.525WWF77 (Bethune)
Clear Creek008019162.450
162.500
162.550
KEC76 (Denver), WNG550 (Franktown), WXJ45 (Deer Trail)
Conejos008021162.475WXM54 (Alamosa)
Costilla008023162.475WXM54 (Alamosa)
Crowley008025162.425
162.500
WWG23 (La Junta), WWG44 (Fowler)
Custer (Eastern 1/4)008027162.400
162.450
WNG579 (Walsenburg), WXM52 (Pueblo)
Delta008029162.450KXI90 (Montrose)
Denver008031162.450
162.475
162.500
162.550
KEC76 (Denver), WNG550 (Franktown), WXJ45 (Deer Trail), WXM51 (Mead/Longmont)
Dolores (WESTERN 1/2)008033162.450WNG687 (Monticello)
Douglas008035162.450
162.500
162.550
KEC76 (Denver), WNG550 (Franktown), WXJ45 (Deer Trail)
Eagle (Southwest 1/4)008037162.450
162.500
WWG43 (Glenwood Springs), WZ2518 (Eagle)
El Paso008041162.475WXM56 (Colorado Springs)
Elbert (Eastern)008039162.450
162.550
KEC76 (Denver), WWH32 (Boyero)
Fremont (Eastern 1/2)008043162.400
162.500
KJY81 (Canon City), WXM52 (Pueblo)
Garfield (Western 1/2)008045162.500
162.550
WWG43 (Glenwood Springs), WXM55 (Grand Junction)
Gilpin008047162.450
162.500
162.550
KEC76 (Denver), WNG550 (Franktown), WXJ45 (Deer Trail)
Grand (WESTERN 1/2)008049162.500
162.525
KWN56 (Steamboat Springs), WZ2544 (North Cottonwood)
Gunnison (Southwest 1/4)008051162.450KXI90 (Montrose)
Huerfano (Northeast 1/2)008055162.400
162.450
WNG579 (Walsenburg), WXM52 (Pueblo)
Jackson008057162.525KWN56 (Steamboat Springs)
Jefferson008059162.450
162.500
162.550
KEC76 (Denver), WNG550 (Franktown), WXJ45 (Deer Trail)
Kiowa (E 1/2)008061162.500
162.525
KWN60 (Lamar), WWG23 (La Junta)
Kit Carson008063162.525WWF77 (Bethune)
La Plata008067162.425
162.475
KWN54 (Durango), WXJ37 (Farmington)
Larimer (SOUTHERN 1/2)008069162.400
162.450
162.475
162.500
162.550
KEC76 (Denver), WXJ45 (Deer Trail), WXM50 (Greeley), WXM51 (Mead/Longmont), WXM92 (Fort Collins/Ault)
Las Animas (Southern 1/2)008071162.400
162.450
162.500
WNG579 (Walsenburg), WNG664 (Springfield), WWG23 (La Junta)
Lincoln008073162.450WWH32 (Boyero)
Logan008075162.400
162.525
KWN40 (Fort Morgan), WXM53 (Sterling)
Mesa008077162.550WXM55 (Grand Junction)
Mineral008079162.475WXM54 (Alamosa)
Moffat (EASTERN 1/4)008081162.525KWN56 (Steamboat Springs)
Montezuma (WESTERN 1/2)008083162.450WNG687 (Monticello)
Montrose (Eastern 1/2)008085162.450KXI90 (Montrose)
Morgan008087162.525KWN40 (Fort Morgan)
Otero008089162.425
162.500
WWG23 (La Junta), WWG44 (Fowler)
Ouray (Northern 1/2)008091162.450KXI90 (Montrose)
Park (EASTERN)008093162.450
162.500
162.550
KEC76 (Denver), WNG550 (Franktown), WXJ45 (Deer Trail)
Phillips008095162.400WXM53 (Sterling)
Pitkin008097162.500WWG43 (Glenwood Springs)
Prowers008099162.400
162.525
KWN60 (Lamar), WNG664 (Springfield)
Pueblo008101162.400
162.425
162.450
WNG579 (Walsenburg), WWG44 (Fowler), WXM52 (Pueblo)
Rio Grande008105162.475WXM54 (Alamosa)
Routt008107162.525KWN56 (Steamboat Springs)
Saguache (Southern 1/2)008109162.475WXM54 (Alamosa)
San Miguel (WESTERN 1/2)008113162.450WNG687 (Monticello)
Sedgwick008115162.400WXM53 (Sterling)
Summit (NORTHERN 2/3)008117162.400
162.525
KWN56 (Steamboat Springs), WNG737 (Dillon)
Teller (Eastern 1/4)008119162.475WXM56 (Colorado Springs)
Washington008121162.425
162.525
KJY84 (Anton), KWN40 (Fort Morgan)
Weld (SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL)008123162.400
162.450
162.475
162.500
162.550
KEC76 (Denver), WNG550 (Franktown), WXJ45 (Deer Trail), WXM50 (Greeley), WXM51 (Mead/Longmont), WXM53 (Sterling), WXM92 (Fort Collins/Ault)
Yuma (Southern 1/2)008125162.475
162.525
WWF77 (Bethune), WXM87 (Wray)

SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) codes are the six-digit numbers your weather radio uses to alert only for your county. A county marked with a note (e.g. partial coverage) is served for that portion only. Data: NOAA/NWS, public domain - verify locally before you rely on it.

Neighboring states. Border counties often sit inside a transmitter's range from the next state over, so if nothing here covers you, try Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming.

Every state is listed on the NOAA Weather Radio by state index.

A radio that will actually use this

Those 59 Colorado entries only do something inside a radio you can program them into. Two that do the job - and they are different jobs, not better and worse.

At home, always on

Midland WR120B. Mains-powered desk alert radio. Program your county's SAME code from the table above and it sits silent until your county specifically is warned. Then it wakes you. This is the one that earns its keep at three in the morning. Battery backup keeps it alerting through an outage.

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In the bag or the car

Midland ER310. Crank and solar, USB-rechargeable with an AA compartment as a third power path, weather band, real flashlight. Receives the same frequencies; it does not do SAME alerting. This is the one you still have when the power has been off for two days.

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You do not need an expensive weather radio. The two things that matter are SAME programming, so it stays quiet for counties that are not yours, and a power path that survives the outage the warning is about. Everything above that is convenience. See the buyer's guide for how we pick, and the disclosure for how the links work.