Weather radio in Washington

KIG75: NOAA Weather Radio, Yakima

162.550 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KIG75 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Yakima, with the transmitter at Ahtanum Ridge, Washington, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Pendleton, OR programs it. It covers 2 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KIG75 (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
KIG75
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Yakima
Transmitter site
Ahtanum Ridge
NWS office
Pendleton, OR
Location
46.6405, -120.3972

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
KittitasWashington053037Whole county
YakimaWashington053077Whole 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.