WNG550: NOAA Weather Radio, Franktown
WNG550 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Franktown, Colorado, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Boulder, CO programs it. It covers 14 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WNG550 (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
- WNG550
- Frequency
- 162.450 MHz (WX5)
- Power
- 300 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Franktown
- State
- Colorado
- NWS office
- Boulder, CO
- Location
- 39.3701, -104.6794
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.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | Colorado | 008001 | Whole county |
| Arapahoe | Colorado | 008005 | Whole county |
| Arapahoe | Colorado | 408005 | Western |
| Arapahoe | Colorado | 508005 | Central |
| Arapahoe | Colorado | 608005 | Eastern |
| Boulder | Colorado | 008013 | Whole county |
| Broomfield | Colorado | 008014 | Whole county |
| Clear Creek | Colorado | 008019 | Whole county |
| Denver | Colorado | 008031 | Whole county |
| Douglas | Colorado | 008035 | Whole county |
| Gilpin | Colorado | 008047 | Whole county |
| Jefferson | Colorado | 008059 | Whole county |
| Park | Colorado | 008093 | Eastern |
| Weld | Colorado | 008123 | Southern and central |
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 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.