Weather radio in California

KIH34: NOAA Weather Radio, Santa Barbara

162.400 MHz · 369 W · On the air

KIH34 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Santa Barbara, with the transmitter at Broadcast Peak, California, at 369 W. The National Weather Service office in Los Angeles, CA programs it. It covers 2 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KIH34 (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
KIH34
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
369 W
Status
On the air
Station
Santa Barbara
Transmitter site
Broadcast Peak
NWS office
Los Angeles, CA
Location
34.5250, -119.9589

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
Santa BarbaraCalifornia006083Whole county
VenturaCalifornia006111Whole 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 12:50 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.