WXK65: NOAA Weather Radio, Richmond
WXK65 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Richmond, with the transmitter at Sandston, Virginia, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Wakefield, VA programs it. It covers 25 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXK65 (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
- WXK65
- Frequency
- 162.475 MHz (WX3)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Richmond
- Transmitter site
- Sandston
- State
- Virginia
- NWS office
- Wakefield, VA
- Location
- 37.5031, -77.5417
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia | Virginia | 051007 | Whole county |
| Caroline | Virginia | 051033 | Not NE Tip |
| Charles City | Virginia | 051036 | Whole county |
| Chesterfield | Virginia | 051041 | Whole county |
| City of Colonial Heights | Virginia | 051570 | Whole county |
| City of Fredericksburg | Virginia | 051630 | Whole county |
| City of Hopewell | Virginia | 051670 | Whole county |
| City of Petersburg | Virginia | 051730 | Whole county |
| City of Richmond | Virginia | 051760 | Whole county |
| Cumberland | Virginia | 051049 | Central/E |
| Dinwiddie | Virginia | 051053 | Whole county |
| Fluvanna | Virginia | 051065 | E 1/2 |
| Goochland | Virginia | 051075 | Whole county |
| Hanover | Virginia | 051085 | Whole county |
| Henrico | Virginia | 051087 | Whole county |
| King and Queen | Virginia | 051097 | Whole county |
| King William | Virginia | 051101 | Whole county |
| Louisa | Virginia | 051109 | Whole county |
| New Kent | Virginia | 051127 | Whole county |
| Nottoway | Virginia | 051135 | Whole county |
| Powhatan | Virginia | 051145 | Whole county |
| Prince Edward | Virginia | 051147 | NE |
| Prince George | Virginia | 051149 | Whole county |
| Spotsylvania | Virginia | 051177 | S 1/2 |
| Sussex | Virginia | 051183 | 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 9:33 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.