Weather radio in Wisconsin

KZZ76: NOAA Weather Radio, Racine

162.450 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KZZ76 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Racine, Wisconsin, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Milwaukee/Sullivan, WI programs it. It covers 7 counties in Illinois and Wisconsin.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KZZ76 (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
KZZ76
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Racine
NWS office
Milwaukee/Sullivan, WI
Location
42.6697, -87.8475

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
LakeIllinois017097Whole county
McHenryIllinois017111Whole county
KenoshaWisconsin055059Whole county
MilwaukeeWisconsin055079Whole county
RacineWisconsin055101Whole county
WalworthWisconsin055127Whole county
WaukeshaWisconsin055133Whole 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 29, 2026 at 12:04 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.