Weather radio in Washington

WXM62: NOAA Weather Radio, Capitol Peak

162.475 MHz · 284 W · On the air

WXM62 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Capitol Peak, with the transmitter at Olympia, Washington, at 284 W. The National Weather Service office in Seattle/Tacoma, WA programs it. It covers 6 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXM62 (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
WXM62
Frequency
162.475 MHz (WX3)
Power
284 W
Status
On the air
Station
Capitol Peak
Transmitter site
Olympia
NWS office
Seattle/Tacoma, WA
Location
46.9752, -123.1392

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
Grays HarborWashington053027Whole county
LewisWashington053041Central / west
MasonWashington053045Whole county
PacificWashington053049NE and central
PierceWashington053053Central / west
ThurstonWashington053067Whole 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 9:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.