WXM72: NOAA Weather Radio, Hinton
WXM72 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.425 MHz (WX4 on most receivers) from Hinton, with the transmitter at Keeney Mtn., West Virginia, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Blacksburg, VA programs it. It covers 15 counties in Virginia and West Virginia.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXM72 (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
- WXM72
- Frequency
- 162.425 MHz (WX4)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Hinton
- Transmitter site
- Keeney Mtn.
- State
- West Virginia
- NWS office
- Blacksburg, VA
- Location
- 37.7736, -80.7055
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.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alleghany | Virginia | 051005 | Whole county |
| Bath | Virginia | 051017 | Whole county |
| Bland | Virginia | 051021 | Whole county |
| City of Covington | Virginia | 051580 | Whole county |
| Craig | Virginia | 051045 | Whole county |
| Giles | Virginia | 051071 | Whole county |
| Tazewell | Virginia | 051185 | Whole county |
| Fayette | West Virginia | 054019 | Whole county |
| Greenbrier | West Virginia | 054025 | Whole county |
| Mercer | West Virginia | 054055 | Whole county |
| Monroe | West Virginia | 054063 | Whole county |
| Nicholas | West Virginia | 054067 | Whole county |
| Pocahontas | West Virginia | 054075 | Whole county |
| Raleigh | West Virginia | 054081 | Whole county |
| Summers | West Virginia | 054089 | Whole 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 October 4, 2026 at 9:31 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.