Weather radio in California

KDX54: NOAA Weather Radio, Big Rock Ridge

162.500 MHz · 75 W · On the air

KDX54 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Big Rock Ridge, with the transmitter at N. San Francisco Bay, California, at 75 W. The National Weather Service office in San Francisco, CA programs it. It covers 15 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KDX54 (the largest dot) and the transmitters within 100 miles, colored by their status now.

  • On the air
  • Degraded
  • Off the air

The transmitter

Call sign
KDX54
Frequency
162.500 MHz (WX6)
Power
75 W
Status
On the air
Station
Big Rock Ridge
Transmitter site
N. San Francisco Bay
NWS office
San Francisco, CA
Location
38.0597, -122.6056

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
Contra CostaCalifornia006013West
MarinCalifornia006041Whole county
NapaCalifornia006055Whole county
San FranciscoCalifornia006075Whole county
San MateoCalifornia006081Whole county
Santa ClaraCalifornia006085Whole county
SonomaCalifornia006097Whole county
SonomaCalifornia106097Southeast
SonomaCalifornia206097South
SonomaCalifornia306097West and south
SonomaCalifornia406097East and south
SonomaCalifornia506097Whole county
SonomaCalifornia606097West
SonomaCalifornia706097Whole county
SonomaCalifornia906097Whole county

Nearby transmitters

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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 October 1, 2026 at 4:11 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.