Weather radio in New York

WXM80: NOAA Weather Radio, Riverhead

162.475 MHz · 500 W · On the air

WXM80 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Riverhead, New York, at 500 W. The National Weather Service office in New York, NY programs it. It covers 6 counties in Connecticut and New York.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXM80 (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
WXM80
Frequency
162.475 MHz (WX3)
Power
500 W
Status
On the air
Station
Riverhead
NWS office
New York, NY
Location
40.8825, -72.7153

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
FairfieldConnecticut009001Southern
MiddlesexConnecticut009007Southern
New HavenConnecticut009009Southern
New LondonConnecticut009011Southern
NassauNew York036059Central/E
SuffolkNew York036103Southern

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 October 2, 2026 at 7:57 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.