Weather radio in Oregon

WXL85: NOAA Weather Radio, Medford

162.400 MHz · 500 W · On the air

WXL85 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Medford, with the transmitter at Nugget Butte, Oregon, at 500 W. The National Weather Service office in Medford, OR programs it. It covers 2 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXL85 (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
WXL85
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
500 W
Status
On the air
Station
Medford
Transmitter site
Nugget Butte
State
Oregon
NWS office
Medford, OR
Location
42.4279, -123.0022

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
JacksonOregon041029Whole county
JosephineOregon041033Eastern

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 9:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.