WXN85: NOAA Weather Radio, Fairfield

162.400 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WXN85 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Fairfield, Iowa, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Quad Cities, IA programs it. It covers 8 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXN85 (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: WXN85
Frequency: 162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power: 300 W
Status: On the air
Station: Fairfield
State: Iowa
NWS office: Quad Cities, IA
Location: 41.0893, -91.9683

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.

County	State	SAME code	Coverage
Davis	Iowa	019051	NE
Henry	Iowa	019087	Whole county
Jefferson	Iowa	019101	Whole county
Keokuk	Iowa	019107	SE
Lee	Iowa	019111	NW
Van Buren	Iowa	019177	Whole county
Wapello	Iowa	019179	E
Washington	Iowa	019183	SW

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 28, 2026 at 4:56 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.