WWG86: NOAA Weather Radio, Prairie Du Chien

162.500 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

WWG86 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Prairie Du Chien, with the transmitter at Bloomington, Wisconsin, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in La Crosse, WI programs it. It covers 5 counties in Iowa and Wisconsin.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WWG86 (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: WWG86
Frequency: 162.500 MHz (WX6)
Power: 1,000 W
Status: On the air
Station: Prairie Du Chien
Transmitter site: Bloomington
State: Wisconsin
NWS office: La Crosse, WI
Location: 42.9024, -90.9465

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
Allamakee	Iowa	019005	Whole county
Clayton	Iowa	019043	Whole county
Fayette	Iowa	019065	Whole county
Crawford	Wisconsin	055023	Whole county
Grant	Wisconsin	055043	Whole county

Nearby transmitters

Weather radio in Wisconsin Every transmitter The forecast here Alerts in force in Wisconsin

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 3:12 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.