Weather radio in California

KEC57: NOAA Weather Radio, Sacramento

162.550 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KEC57 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Sacramento, with the transmitter at Fairplay, California, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Sacramento, CA programs it. It covers 11 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KEC57 (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
KEC57
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Sacramento
Transmitter site
Fairplay
NWS office
Sacramento, CA
Location
38.5806, -120.6150

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
AmadorCalifornia006005Whole county
CalaverasCalifornia006009Whole county
ColusaCalifornia006011East
El DoradoCalifornia006017West
PlacerCalifornia006061West
SacramentoCalifornia006067Whole county
San JoaquinCalifornia006077Whole county
SolanoCalifornia006095Whole county
StanislausCalifornia006099Whole county
SutterCalifornia006101Whole county
YoloCalifornia006113Whole 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 September 28, 2026 at 2:36 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.