Weather radio in Iowa

KZZ80: NOAA Weather Radio, Milford

162.550 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KZZ80 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Milford, Iowa, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Sioux Falls, SD programs it. It covers 5 counties in Iowa and Minnesota.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KZZ80 (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
KZZ80
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Milford
State
Iowa
NWS office
Sioux Falls, SD
Location
43.3431, -95.2079

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
ClayIowa019041Whole county
DickinsonIowa019059Whole county
EmmetIowa019063West
Palo AltoIowa019147NW & central
JacksonMinnesota027063Whole 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 9:33 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.