Weather radio in Virginia

WXL92: NOAA Weather Radio, Lynchburg

162.550 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

WXL92 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Lynchburg, with the transmitter at Madison Heights, Virginia, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Blacksburg, VA programs it. It covers 10 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXL92 (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
WXL92
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Lynchburg
Transmitter site
Madison Heights
NWS office
Blacksburg, VA
Location
37.4367, -79.1241

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
AmherstVirginia051009Whole county
AppomattoxVirginia051011Whole county
BedfordVirginia051019Whole county
BuckinghamVirginia051029Whole county
CampbellVirginia051031Whole county
CharlotteVirginia051037Whole county
City of LexingtonVirginia051678Whole county
City of LynchburgVirginia051680Whole county
Prince EdwardVirginia051147Whole county
RockbridgeVirginia051163Whole 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 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.