WXL63: NOAA Weather Radio, Bear Lake

162.500 MHz · 50 W · On the air

WXL63 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Bear Lake, with the transmitter at Laketown, Utah, at 50 W. The National Weather Service office in Salt Lake City, UT programs it. It covers 4 counties in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXL63 (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: WXL63
Frequency: 162.500 MHz (WX6)
Power: 50 W
Status: On the air
Station: Bear Lake
Transmitter site: Laketown
State: Utah
NWS office: Salt Lake City, UT
Location: 41.8825, -111.2692

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
Bear Lake	Idaho	016007	Whole county
Cache	Utah	049005	E
Rich	Utah	049033	Whole county
Lincoln	Wyoming	056023	SW 1/3

Nearby transmitters

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

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.