Weather radio in Washington

WXL86: NOAA Weather Radio, Spokane

162.400 MHz · 100 W · On the air

WXL86 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Spokane, with the transmitter at Spokane Mtn., Washington, at 100 W. The National Weather Service office in Spokane, WA programs it. It covers 7 counties in Idaho and Washington.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXL86 (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
WXL86
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
100 W
Status
On the air
Station
Spokane
Transmitter site
Spokane Mtn.
NWS office
Spokane, WA
Location
47.9217, -117.1133

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
BenewahIdaho016009Whole county
BonnerIdaho016017Whole county
KootenaiIdaho016055Whole county
LincolnWashington053043Whole county
Pend OreilleWashington053051Whole county
SpokaneWashington053063Whole county
StevensWashington053065Whole 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 3:43 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.