Weather radio in Michigan

KIG74: NOAA Weather Radio, Sault Ste Marie

162.550 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

KIG74 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Sault Ste Marie, with the transmitter at Dafter, Michigan, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Gaylord, MI programs it. It covers 2 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KIG74 (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
KIG74
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Sault Ste Marie
Transmitter site
Dafter
NWS office
Gaylord, MI
Location
46.3770, -84.4251

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
ChippewaMichigan026033Whole county
MackinacMichigan026097E 1/2

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.