KZZ28: NOAA Weather Radio, Covesville
KZZ28 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Covesville, with the transmitter at Mt. Oliver, Virginia, at 980 W. The National Weather Service office in Baltimore/Washington, VA programs it. It covers 26 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KZZ28 (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
- KZZ28
- Frequency
- 162.450 MHz (WX5)
- Power
- 980 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Covesville
- Transmitter site
- Mt. Oliver
- State
- Virginia
- NWS office
- Baltimore/Washington, VA
- Location
- 37.8765, -78.6910
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albemarle | Virginia | 051003 | Whole county |
| Amelia | Virginia | 051007 | Whole county |
| Amherst | Virginia | 051009 | Whole county |
| Appomattox | Virginia | 051011 | Whole county |
| Augusta | Virginia | 051015 | Whole county |
| Buckingham | Virginia | 051029 | Whole county |
| Campbell | Virginia | 051031 | Whole county |
| Charlotte | Virginia | 051037 | Northeast |
| City of Charlottesville | Virginia | 051540 | Whole county |
| City of Staunton | Virginia | 051790 | Whole county |
| City of Waynesboro | Virginia | 051820 | Whole county |
| Culpeper | Virginia | 051047 | Whole county |
| Cumberland | Virginia | 051049 | Whole county |
| Fluvanna | Virginia | 051065 | Whole county |
| Goochland | Virginia | 051075 | Whole county |
| Greene | Virginia | 051079 | Whole county |
| Louisa | Virginia | 051109 | Whole county |
| Lunenburg | Virginia | 051111 | Whole county |
| Madison | Virginia | 051113 | Whole county |
| Nelson | Virginia | 051125 | Whole county |
| Nottoway | Virginia | 051135 | Whole county |
| Orange | Virginia | 051137 | Whole county |
| Powhatan | Virginia | 051145 | Whole county |
| Prince Edward | Virginia | 051147 | Whole county |
| Rockingham | Virginia | 051165 | Whole county |
| Spotsylvania | Virginia | 051177 | Whole county |
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 6:17 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.