KZZ44: NOAA Weather Radio, Elephant Lake

162.450 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KZZ44 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Elephant Lake, with the transmitter at Orr, Minnesota, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Duluth, MN programs it. It covers 2 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KZZ44 (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: KZZ44
Frequency: 162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power: 300 W
Status: On the air
Station: Elephant Lake
Transmitter site: Orr
State: Minnesota
NWS office: Duluth, MN
Location: 48.1800, -92.7503

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
Koochiching	Minnesota	027071	Eastern 1/3
St. Louis	Minnesota	127137	Northwest

Nearby transmitters

Weather radio in Minnesota Every transmitter The forecast here Alerts in force in Minnesota

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.