Weather radio in Washington

WXM48: NOAA Weather Radio, Wenatchee

162.475 MHz · 100 W · On the air

WXM48 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Wenatchee, with the transmitter at Birch Mtn, Washington, at 100 W. The National Weather Service office in Spokane, WA programs it. It covers 4 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXM48 (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
WXM48
Frequency
162.475 MHz (WX3)
Power
100 W
Status
On the air
Station
Wenatchee
Transmitter site
Birch Mtn
NWS office
Spokane, WA
Location
47.5498, -120.3710

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
ChelanWashington053007Whole county
DouglasWashington053017Whole county
GrantWashington053025Whole county
KittitasWashington053037Whole 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 11:46 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.