KHB36: NOAA Weather Radio, Manassas
KHB36 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Manassas, with the transmitter at Independent Hill, Virginia, at 1,010 W. The National Weather Service office in Baltimore/Washington, VA programs it. It covers 28 counties in District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KHB36 (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
- KHB36
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 1,010 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Manassas
- Transmitter site
- Independent Hill
- State
- Virginia
- NWS office
- Baltimore/Washington, VA
- Location
- 38.6287, -77.4388
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 011001 | Whole county |
| Calvert | Maryland | 024009 | Whole county |
| Charles | Maryland | 024017 | Whole county |
| Frederick | Maryland | 024021 | Whole county |
| Montgomery | Maryland | 024031 | Whole county |
| Prince Georges | Maryland | 024033 | Whole county |
| St. Marys | Maryland | 024037 | NW |
| Arlington | Virginia | 051013 | Whole county |
| City of Alexandria | Virginia | 051510 | Whole county |
| City of Fairfax | Virginia | 051600 | Whole county |
| City of Falls Church | Virginia | 051610 | Whole county |
| City of Fredericksburg | Virginia | 051630 | Whole county |
| City of Manassas | Virginia | 051683 | Whole county |
| City of Manassas Park | Virginia | 051685 | Whole county |
| Clarke | Virginia | 051043 | SE |
| Culpeper | Virginia | 051047 | Whole county |
| Fairfax | Virginia | 051059 | Whole county |
| Fauquier | Virginia | 051061 | Whole county |
| King George | Virginia | 051099 | Whole county |
| Loudoun | Virginia | 051107 | Whole county |
| Madison | Virginia | 051113 | Whole county |
| Orange | Virginia | 051137 | Central/e |
| Page | Virginia | 051139 | Whole county |
| Prince William | Virginia | 051153 | Whole county |
| Rappahannock | Virginia | 051157 | Whole county |
| Spotsylvania | Virginia | 051177 | Whole county |
| Stafford | Virginia | 051179 | Whole county |
| Warren | Virginia | 051187 | E |
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.