WXM57: NOAA Weather Radio, Heathsville
WXM57 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Heathsville, Virginia, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Wakefield, VA programs it. It covers 14 counties in Maryland and Virginia.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXM57 (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
- WXM57
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Heathsville
- State
- Virginia
- NWS office
- Wakefield, VA
- Location
- 37.9061, -76.4855
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somerset | Maryland | 024039 | Whole county |
| St. Marys | Maryland | 024037 | Whole county |
| Accomack | Virginia | 051001 | Whole county |
| Essex | Virginia | 051057 | Whole county |
| Gloucester | Virginia | 051073 | Central/N |
| King and Queen | Virginia | 051097 | Whole county |
| King William | Virginia | 051101 | N 1/2 |
| Lancaster | Virginia | 051103 | Whole county |
| Mathews | Virginia | 051115 | Whole county |
| Middlesex | Virginia | 051119 | Whole county |
| Northampton | Virginia | 051131 | Whole county |
| Northumberland | Virginia | 051133 | Whole county |
| Richmond | Virginia | 051159 | Whole county |
| Westmoreland | Virginia | 051193 | 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 27, 2026 at 9:51 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.