Weather radio in Illinois

KZZ56: NOAA Weather Radio, Freeport

162.450 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KZZ56 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Freeport, with the transmitter at Eleroy, Illinois, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Quad Cities, IA programs it. It covers 7 counties in Illinois and Wisconsin.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KZZ56 (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
KZZ56
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Freeport
Transmitter site
Eleroy
NWS office
Quad Cities, IA
Location
42.3281, -89.7250

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
CarrollIllinois017015Whole county
Jo DaviessIllinois017085Whole county
OgleIllinois017141Whole county
StephensonIllinois017177Whole county
WinnebagoIllinois017201Whole county
GreenWisconsin055045Whole county
LafayetteWisconsin055065Whole 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 6:48 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.