Weather radio in Idaho

WXK68: NOAA Weather Radio, Boise

162.550 MHz · 297 W · On the air

WXK68 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Boise, with the transmitter at Doe Point, Idaho, at 297 W. The National Weather Service office in Boise, ID programs it. It covers 6 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXK68 (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
WXK68
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
297 W
Status
On the air
Station
Boise
Transmitter site
Doe Point
State
Idaho
NWS office
Boise, ID
Location
43.7546, -116.0950

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
AdaIdaho016001Whole county
BoiseIdaho016015SW
CanyonIdaho016027Whole county
ElmoreIdaho016039SW
GemIdaho016045S
OwyheeIdaho016073N

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.