Weather radio in Alaska

KZZ53: NOAA Weather Radio, Utqiagvik

162.550 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KZZ53 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Utqiagvik, Alaska, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Fairbanks, AK programs it. It covers 1 county.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KZZ53 at its site.

  • On the air
  • Degraded
  • Off the air

The transmitter

Call sign
KZZ53
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Utqiagvik
State
Alaska
NWS office
Fairbanks, AK
Location
71.2884, -156.7623

Counties covered

Program a SAME receiver with the code of your county. Coverage is NWS’s note of the part of a county the signal reaches.

CountyStateSAME codeCoverage
North SlopeAlaska002185N

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Sources

Transmitters, status and county coverage from the National Weather Service’s NOAA Weather Radio county coverage listing (data). Public domain. Read September 26, 2026 at 6:48 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.