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NOAA Weather Radio in Washington

Every NOAA Weather Radio frequency and SAME alert code in Washington, 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)
Adams053001162.450WWF56 (Richland)
Asotin053003162.550WXK98 (Lewiston)
Benton053005162.450WWF56 (Richland)
Chelan053007162.475
162.525
WWF49 (Okanogan), WXM48 (Wenatchee)
Clallam (NORTH EAST)053009162.425
162.550
KIH36 (Neah Bay), KXI27 (Forks), WWG24 (Puget Sound Marine)
Clark053011162.525
162.550
KIG98 (Portland), WNG604 (Davis Peak)
Columbia053013162.525KZZ73 (Dayton)
Cowlitz053015162.525
162.550
KIG98 (Portland), WNG604 (Davis Peak)
Douglas053017162.475
162.525
WWF49 (Okanogan), WXM48 (Wenatchee)
Ferry (W)053019162.525WWF49 (Okanogan)
Franklin053021162.450WWF56 (Richland)
Garfield053023162.525
162.550
KZZ73 (Dayton), WXK98 (Lewiston)
Grant053025162.450
162.475
162.525
WWF49 (Okanogan), WWF56 (Richland), WXM48 (Wenatchee)
Grays Harbor (WEST)053027162.400
162.425
162.475
KEC91 (Astoria), KXI27 (Forks), WXM62 (Capitol Peak)
Island053029162.425WWG24 (Puget Sound Marine)
Jefferson (EXTREME NORTH W)053031162.425
162.550
KIH36 (Neah Bay), KXI27 (Forks), WWG24 (Puget Sound Marine)
King (W AND C)053033162.550KHB60 (Seattle)
Kitsap (ALL BUT WEST)053035162.425
162.550
KHB60 (Seattle), WWG24 (Puget Sound Marine)
Kittitas (North)053037162.400
162.475
162.550
KIG75 (Yakima), WXM48 (Wenatchee), WXN21 (Cle Elum)
Klickitat (West)053039162.400
162.450
WWF56 (Richland), WXM34 (The Dalles)
Lewis (CENTRAL / WEST)053041162.425
162.475
WXM62 (Capitol Peak), WZ2502 (Randle)
Lincoln (NW)053043162.400
162.525
WWF49 (Okanogan), WXL86 (Spokane)
Mason (C AND E)053045162.475
162.550
KHB60 (Seattle), WXM62 (Capitol Peak)
Okanogan053047162.525WWF49 (Okanogan)
Pacific (NE AND CENTRAL)053049162.400
162.475
KEC91 (Astoria), WXM62 (Capitol Peak)
Pend Oreille053051162.400WXL86 (Spokane)
Pierce (CENTRAL / WEST)053053162.475
162.550
KHB60 (Seattle), WXM62 (Capitol Peak)
San Juan (NORTHWEST)053055162.425
162.525
KAD93 (H Street - Blaine Area), WWG24 (Puget Sound Marine)
Skagit (WEST)053057162.425WWG24 (Puget Sound Marine)
Skamania (South)053059162.400
162.550
KIG98 (Portland), WXM34 (The Dalles)
Snohomish (WEST)053061162.425
162.550
KHB60 (Seattle), WWG24 (Puget Sound Marine)
Spokane053063162.400
162.500
WWG99 (Bonners Ferry), WXL86 (Spokane)
Stevens053065162.400WXL86 (Spokane)
Thurston053067162.475WXM62 (Capitol Peak)
Wahkiakum053069162.400KEC91 (Astoria)
Walla Walla053071162.400
162.450
WWF56 (Richland), WXL95 (Spout Springs)
Whatcom (EXTREME NORTH)053073162.525KAD93 (H Street - Blaine Area)
Whitman053075162.525
162.550
KZZ73 (Dayton), WXK98 (Lewiston)
Yakima053077162.450
162.550
KIG75 (Yakima), WWF56 (Richland)

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 Idaho, Oregon.

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

A radio that will actually use this

Those 39 Washington 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.