Weather radio in Illinois

KXI86: NOAA Weather Radio, Crescent City

162.500 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KXI86 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Crescent City, Illinois, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Chicago, IL programs it. It covers 6 counties in Illinois and Indiana.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KXI86 (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
KXI86
Frequency
162.500 MHz (WX6)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Crescent City
NWS office
Chicago, IL
Location
40.7178, -87.8600

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
FordIllinois017053Whole county
IroquoisIllinois017075Whole county
KankakeeIllinois017091Whole county
VermilionIllinois017183Whole county
BentonIndiana018007Whole county
NewtonIndiana018111Whole 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 26, 2026 at 9:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.