162.550 MHz: one of the seven NOAA Weather Radio frequencies

162.550 MHz is one of the seven frequencies NOAA Weather Radio uses nationwide. 184 of the 1,035 transmitters in the NWS coverage data broadcast on it, all listed below. The frequency does not pick you - your county does: neighboring transmitters use different frequencies so they can overlap without interfering, and the finder returns the right one for any county in one step.

On marine radios this frequency usually appears as channel WX1, but the WX numbers are a receiver convention, not part of the NWS system - the Midland WR120, for one, numbers its channels 1-7 in ascending frequency order, which puts 162.550 MHz at channel 7. When in doubt, go by the frequency.

Every transmitter on 162.550 MHz

State	Station	Transmitter site	Power (W)
Alabama	KEC61	Mobile	1000
Alabama	KIH54	Birmingham	1020
Alabama	KIH59	Dozier	1000
Alaska	KEC43	Anchorage	300
Alaska	KEC81	Seward	300
Alaska	KPS503	Glennallen	1000
Alaska	KWN30	Kotzebue	1000
Alaska	KZZ53	Utqiagvik	300
Alaska	KZZ97	Ninilchik	300
Alaska	WNG675	Bethel	1000
Alaska	WNG714	Sand Point	300
Alaska	WXJ25	Juneau	300
Alaska	WXJ26	Ketchikan	500
Alaska	WXJ62	Nome	1000
Alaska	WXJ63	Valdez	300
Alaska	WXJ78	Kodiak	1000
Alaska	WXJ80	Sitka	500
Alaska	WXJ81	Fairbanks	700
Alaska	WXK89	Unalaska	300
American Samoa	WZ2529	Mt. Olotele	300
Arizona	KEC94	Phoenix	347
Arizona	WWF99	Window Rock	100
Arkansas	WXJ50	Fort Smith	750
Arkansas	WXJ51	Jonesboro	900
Arkansas	WXJ55	Little Rock	1000
California	KEC49	Monterey	300
California	KEC57	Sacramento	300
California	KIH30	Point Arena	300
California	KIH31	San Luis Obispo	365
California	KWO37	Los Angeles	340
California	WXL87	Yuma	100
California	WXL88	Redding	100
California	WXL89	Bakersfield	100
Colorado	KEC76	Denver	330
Colorado	WXM55	Grand Junction	300
Connecticut	KHB47	New London	500
Delaware	WXJ94	Lewes	500
Florida	KGG67	Panama City	1000
Florida	KHB32	Tampa Bay	1000
Florida	KHB34	Miami	1100
Florida	KHB39	Jacksonville	1000
Florida	KWN38	Morriston	1000
Florida	WXJ70	Melbourne	1000
Georgia	KEC80	Atlanta	569
Georgia	WXK53	Pelham	1000
Georgia	WXK54	Augusta	1000
Hawaii	KBA99	Oahu	1000
Hawaii	WWG27	South Point	300
Hawaii	WWG76	Kulani Cone	1000
Idaho	WXK68	Boise	297
Idaho	WXK98	Lewiston	100
Idaho	WXL33	Pocatello	100
Illinois	KWO39	Chicago	300
Illinois	WNG536	DeKalb	100
Illinois	WXJ73	Quad Cities	1000
Illinois	WXJ76	Champaign	1000
Indiana	KEC74	Indianapolis	1000
Indiana	KIG76	Evansville	1000
Indiana	WXJ58	Fort Wayne	1000
Iowa	KZZ50	Essex	303
Iowa	KZZ80	Milford	300
Iowa	WNG668	Denison	300
Iowa	WXL57	Des Moines	1020
Iowa	WXL94	Waterloo	900
Kansas	KEC59	Wichita	1050
Kansas	WWG22	Tribune	307
Kansas	WXK94	Concordia	1000
Kentucky	KIH39	Ashland	1090
Kentucky	KIH42	Covington	1000
Kentucky	KIH43A	Elizabethtown	300
Kentucky	KIH44	Somerset	1000
Kentucky	WWG61	Stanton	300
Louisiana	KHB43	New Orleans	1000
Louisiana	WXJ96	Monroe	800
Louisiana	WXK80	Lafayette	1000
Maine	KDO95	Falmouth	500
Maine	KHB54	Milo	1000
Massachusetts	KEC73	Bourne/Hyannis	1000
Massachusetts	WXL93	Worcester	500
Michigan	KEC63	Detroit	1000
Michigan	KIG66	Marquette	1000
Michigan	KIG74	Sault Ste Marie	1000
Michigan	KIG83	Alpena	800
Michigan	WNG683	Marenisco	300
Michigan	WZ2560	Cannonsburg	1000
Minnesota	KEC65	Minneapolis/St. Paul	1020
Minnesota	KIG64	Duluth	1000
Minnesota	KXI32	Appleton	1000
Minnesota	WXJ64	Leader	1000
Minnesota	WXJ86	LaCrescent	1000
Minnesota	WXK43	Thief River Falls	1000
Minnesota	WXK45	International Falls	1000
Mississippi	KIH48	Bude	1000
Mississippi	KIH49	Meridian	1000
Mississippi	KIH52	Oxford	900
Missouri	KDO89	St. Louis	1010
Missouri	KID77	Kansas City	1000
Missouri	KXI93	Cape Girardeau	300
Missouri	KZZ43	Branson	1050
Missouri	WXM36	Lancaster	300
Missouri	WZ2545	Joplin	300
Missouri	WZ2548	Eldon	1000
Montana	KHC26	Circle	300
Montana	WXJ43	Great Falls	300
Montana	WXK57	Baker	300
Montana	WXL27	Billings	300
Montana	WXL79	Butte	100
Montana	WXL82	Kalispell	100
Nebraska	WXL68	North Platte	1000
Nebraska	WXL77	Norfolk	1060
Nevada	WWF81	Eureka	100
Nevada	WXK58	Reno	300
Nevada	WXL28	Elko	100
Nevada	WXL36	Las Vegas	100
New Hampshire	WNG545	Holderness	300
New Mexico	WXJ33	Santa Fe	100
New Mexico	WXJ38	Ruidoso	300
New Mexico	WXL90	Des Moines	100
New York	KEB98	Buffalo	330
New York	KWO35	New York City	1000
New York	WXL31	Syracuse	1000
New York	WXL34	Albany	1000
North Carolina	KHB31	Winnabow	1000
North Carolina	WXL58	Chapel Hill	1000
North Dakota	WXL81	Jamestown	1000
North Dakota	WXL84	Williston	1000
Northern Mariana Islands	WXM86	Saipan	300
Ohio	KHB59	Cleveland	750
Ohio	KIG86	Columbus	1000
Oklahoma	KIH27	Tulsa	600
Oklahoma	KJY95	Wewoka	1030
Oklahoma	WXK86	Lawton	1000
Oregon	KIG98	Portland	330
Oregon	KIH33	Newport	500
Oregon	KIH37	Brookings	500
Oregon	WNG559	Fossil	270
Oregon	WXL97	Klamath Falls	100
Oregon	WXL98	Roseburg	100
Pennsylvania	KIH35	Pittsburgh	1010
Pennsylvania	WXL40	Harrisburg	1000
Pennsylvania	WXL43	Wilkes-Barre	500
Pennsylvania	WXL52	Clearfield	500
Puerto Rico	WXJ68	Maricao	1000
South Carolina	KHB29	Charleston	1000
South Carolina	WXJ21	Greenville	1000
South Carolina	WXJ22	Florence	1000
South Dakota	WNG558	White River	1000
South Dakota	WXM27	Wessington	1010
South Dakota	WXM63	Rapid City	1000
Tennessee	KIG79	Nashville	1020
Tennessee	WXK47	Bristol	500
Tennessee	WXK48	Chattanooga	1000
Tennessee	WXK60	Jackson	850
Texas	KEC55	Fort Worth	1050
Texas	KHB40	Galveston	1000
Texas	KHB41	Rockport	1250
Texas	KJY69	Alpine	1000
Texas	WNG652	El Paso Spanish	125
Texas	WNG692	Carrizo Springs	500
Texas	WWG34	Brownsville	317
Texas	WXJ49	Texarkana	500
Texas	WXK20	Paris	1000
Texas	WXK23	Lufkin	1000
Texas	WXK30	Bryan	1000
Texas	WXK33	San Angelo	1000
Texas	WXK38	Amarillo	950
Texas	WXK67	San Antonio	1000
Utah	KEC78	Salt Lake City	300
Utah	KJY79	Tabiona	300
Utah	WXM89	Lake Powell	100
Virginia	KHB36	Manassas	1010
Virginia	KHB37	Norfolk	1000
Virginia	WXL92	Lynchburg	1000
Washington	KHB60	Seattle	102
Washington	KIG75	Yakima	300
Washington	KIH36	Neah Bay	303
West Virginia	WXJ85	Clarksburg	1000
West Virginia	WXM71	Beckley	1000
Wisconsin	KIG65	Green Bay	1000
Wisconsin	WNG577	Ladysmith	1020
Wisconsin	WXJ87	Madison	1000
Wyoming	KXI34	Rock Springs	300
Wyoming	WNG662	Kaycee	300
Wyoming	WXM37	Cheyenne	1000

Each station links to its own page with the counties it covers and their SAME codes.

The other six frequencies: 162.400, 162.425, 162.450, 162.475, 162.500, 162.525. Or start from what the NOAA Weather Radio frequencies are.

Sources:

“NWR County Coverage Listings”. weather.gov. Archived from the original on 2026-07-19. Retrieved 2026-07-16. Every figure on this page - frequency, transmitter site, power, operational status, and county SAME codes - is from this dataset. Transmitters move, change power, and go down for maintenance; verify locally before you rely on it.