Weather radio in Illinois

KXI58: NOAA Weather Radio, Plano

162.400 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KXI58 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Plano, with the transmitter at Yorkville, Illinois, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Chicago, IL programs it. It covers 7 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KXI58 (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
KXI58
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Plano
Transmitter site
Yorkville
NWS office
Chicago, IL
Location
41.6061, -88.4525

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
DeKalbIllinois017037Whole county
DuPageIllinois017043Whole county
GrundyIllinois017063Whole county
KaneIllinois017089Whole county
KendallIllinois017093Whole county
La SalleIllinois017099Whole county
WillIllinois017197Whole 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 12:52 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.