Weather radio in Iowa

KZZ52: NOAA Weather Radio, Hancock/Pottawattam

162.525 MHz · 750 W · On the air

KZZ52 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.525 MHz (WX7 on most receivers) from Hancock/Pottawattam, with the transmitter at Hancock, Iowa, at 750 W. The National Weather Service office in Omaha/Valley, NE programs it. It covers 9 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KZZ52 (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
KZZ52
Frequency
162.525 MHz (WX7)
Power
750 W
Status
On the air
Station
Hancock/Pottawattam
Transmitter site
Hancock
State
Iowa
NWS office
Omaha/Valley, NE
Location
41.3443, -95.2560

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
AdairIowa019001Whole county
AdamsIowa019003Whole county
AudubonIowa019009Whole county
CassIowa019029Whole county
HarrisonIowa019085Whole county
MillsIowa019129Whole county
MontgomeryIowa019137Whole county
PottawattamieIowa019155Whole county
ShelbyIowa019165Whole 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 6:43 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.