KXI81: NOAA Weather Radio, Clayton
KXI81 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Clayton, with the transmitter at Clayton-Tiger, Georgia, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Greenville-Spartanburg, SC programs it. It covers 11 counties in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KXI81 (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
- KXI81
- Frequency
- 162.450 MHz (WX5)
- Power
- 300 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Clayton
- Transmitter site
- Clayton-Tiger
- State
- Georgia
- NWS office
- Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Location
- 34.8456, -83.4997
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banks | Georgia | 013011 | Whole county |
| Franklin | Georgia | 013119 | Whole county |
| Habersham | Georgia | 013137 | Whole county |
| Hall | Georgia | 013139 | Whole county |
| Hart | Georgia | 013147 | Whole county |
| Rabun | Georgia | 013241 | Whole county |
| Stephens | Georgia | 013257 | Whole county |
| Towns | Georgia | 013281 | Whole county |
| White | Georgia | 013311 | Whole county |
| Macon | North Carolina | 037113 | Whole county |
| Oconee | South Carolina | 045073 | Whole 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 27, 2026 at 4:04 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.