Weather radio in Virginia

WZ2527: NOAA Weather Radio, Fredericksburg

162.425 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WZ2527 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.425 MHz (WX4 on most receivers) from Fredericksburg, Virginia, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Baltimore/Washington, VA programs it. It covers 15 counties in Maryland and Virginia.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WZ2527 (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
WZ2527
Frequency
162.425 MHz (WX4)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Fredericksburg
NWS office
Baltimore/Washington, VA
Location
38.3114, -77.4836

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
CharlesMaryland024017Whole county
St. MarysMaryland024037Whole county
CarolineVirginia051033Whole county
City of FredericksburgVirginia051630Whole county
City of ManassasVirginia051683Whole county
City of Manassas ParkVirginia051685Whole county
CulpeperVirginia051047Whole county
EssexVirginia051057Whole county
FauquierVirginia051061Whole county
King GeorgeVirginia051099Whole county
OrangeVirginia051137Whole county
Prince WilliamVirginia051153Whole county
SpotsylvaniaVirginia051177Whole county
StaffordVirginia051179Whole county
WestmorelandVirginia051193Whole 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 30, 2026 at 6:43 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.