Weather radio in Illinois

KZZ65: NOAA Weather Radio, Bloomington

162.525 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KZZ65 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.525 MHz (WX7 on most receivers) from Bloomington, with the transmitter at Bloomington Heights, Illinois, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Lincoln, IL programs it. It covers 4 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KZZ65 (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
KZZ65
Frequency
162.525 MHz (WX7)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Bloomington
Transmitter site
Bloomington Heights
NWS office
Lincoln, IL
Location
40.4761, -89.0339

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
De WittIllinois017039Whole county
McLeanIllinois017113Whole county
TazewellIllinois017179Whole county
WoodfordIllinois017203Whole 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 3:12 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.