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Locations and reports
Radon Levels in Barbour County, Alabama
EPA puts Barbour County in Zone 2, its middle radon zone, and only 2 radon tests from it are on file with CDC (2008 to 2017, laboratory totals). Homes with elevated levels occur in all three zones, so only a test measures yours.
Data checked By Radon411Methodology
Nearest county
12.3%
Lee County, 50 miles
- Lee
- 12.3%
- Alabama
- 21.9%
Share at 4+ pCi/L, 81 tests, 2008 to 2017
Ground above low
59.5%
5.1 pts below Alabama
- Barbour
- 59.5%
- Alabama
- 64.7%
Share of land USGS rates moderate or high potential
Tests reported
2
Too few for a share
- Barbour
- 2
- Needed
- 30
2008 to 2017, laboratory
EPA radon zone
Zone 2
Moderate potential
- 1
- Zone 2
- 3
1 highest, 3 lowest
EPA predicts 2 to 4 pCi/L indoors
Read a result for Barbour County
Starts at EPA's action level
EPA’s own thresholds; the figures are the area’s, never this home’s.
EPA’s reading of 4.0 pCi/L
At or above 4 pCi/L
- Under 20 to 1.9 pCi/L
- 2 to 4consider a fix
- 4 and aboveEPA says fix it
This result is at or above 4 pCi/L. EPA recommends fixing a home when the radon level is 4 pCi/L or higher.
The data
Barbour County, At a glance
Barbour County at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
EPA Zone 2: moderate predicted potential
Barbour County is a
USGS geologic potential: Moderate across 60% of the county's area
Predicted: EPA Map of Radon Zones
Measured: tests reported to CDC
Radon tests reported for Barbour County, 2008 to 2017, laboratory
CDC holds 2 reported tests for Barbour County over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, with a median of 0.6 pCi/L: too few to describe a county (Radon411 reads a share from 30 tests up). Barbour County beside the counties around it is how this page reads it.
What these figures count
Only 2 tests were reported to CDC for Barbour County over 2008 to 2017 (laboratory totals), and tests are often run on homes being sold or already suspected of a problem: so few describe neither the county nor this house.
Measured: CDC tracking data. Measured data period: 2008 to 2017.
Barbour County, Compared
Barbour County radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411CDC's largest figure for Barbour County rests on 2 tests over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, 0 of them at or above 4 pCi/L, so each test moves its share by 50.0 points and no rank or comparison is drawn from it. Results reached as high as 0.9 pCi/L, with a middle value of 0.6 pCi/L.
The nearest counties with a figure are Lee County (50 miles away) at 12.3%, Montgomery County (54 miles away) at 9.7% and Elmore County (67 miles away) at 22.2%. Pooled across 65 Alabama counties, 21.9% of reported tests reached that level; across every county in the country with a figure, 35.7%.
Statewide for the same period, Colbert County reported the highest share (36.2%) and Baldwin County the lowest (0.0%). EPA's 1993 map puts Barbour County in Zone 2, its middle label: a predicted county average between 2 and 4 pCi/L. USGS geology rates 60% of the county's land moderate radon potential.
Pooled shares: Radon411's sum of CDC's county counts for one period.
Barbour County, Geology
The ground under Barbour County
PredictedUSGS's geologic map splits Barbour County: 59.5% of its land is moderate radon potential and 40.5% low. The map puts 59.5% of Barbour County in the area it calls Inner Coastal Plain and 39.9% in Coastal Plain, with one smaller area beside them. USGS gives the first a radon index of 10, in the moderate band (9 to 11), and the second 7, in the low band (5 to 8).
| Area | The rock, in USGS's words | Potential | Radon index | Share of land |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inner Coastal Plain | Marly sandy clay, chalk, and glauconitic sands. | Moderate | 10 | 59.5% |
| Coastal Plain | Marly sandy clay, chalk, and glauconitic sands. | Low | 7 | 39.9% |
| Coastal Plain | Cretaceous and Tertiary marine and coastal sediments including limestone, sandstone, sand, silt, and clay. Coastal plan sands containing glauconite may generate locally elevated radon. | Low | 8 | 0.6% |
Names, descriptions and indexes: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Radon Potential Map (2025). Shares: Radon411, from the map cut to the boundary.
Barbour County beside the ground around it
Across Alabama 14.3% of the land is rated high; none of Barbour County's is. Of the 8 counties that border it, 2 have more moderate-potential ground, Bullock County the most at 100%.
The map rates the ground, not the air in any home.
Local help
Barbour County, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Barbour County
- Alabama Radon ProgramAlabama Radon Program, run by Alabama Department of Public Health, answers questions about testing, mitigation and the rules in Alabama.Visit the program’s page(opens in a new tab)
- Free and low-cost kitsAsk the program whether it has free or discounted kits, or compare kits you can buy.
- Compare kits
- See the Alabama directoryNo professionals are listed in Alabama yet. The state program can point you to registered testers and mitigators.
What Alabama's program says
- Phone
- (334) 290-6244
What it means
Barbour County, Questions
Questions about radon in Barbour County
Are radon levels high in Barbour County?
Over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, 0.0% of the radon tests reported to CDC for Barbour County, Alabama were at or above 4 pCi/L, and the median reported pre-mitigation result was 0.6 pCi/L. Of the 8 nearest counties with a figure, within 125 miles, the share of tests at or above 4 pCi/L runs from 9.7% to 22.2%.
Which counties border Barbour County?
Barbour County borders 8 counties: Quitman County, GA, Bullock County, AL, Henry County, AL, Clay County, GA, Russell County, AL, Pike County, AL, Dale County, AL and Stewart County, GA.
Products
Barbour County, Products
Testing a home in Barbour County
No CDC figure names Barbour County; the nearest county with one, Lee County (50 miles away), reported 12.3% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, the only reading nearby until a test of this home. In Zone 2 a short-term kit (2 to 90 days) is the quick first check in Barbour County; a long-term test tells the year-round average.
Test kits and monitors3
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Long-term kit
RL116 long-term radon test kit
- Lab fee extra
Method: Alpha track
In home: 90 days to 12 months
Monitor
View Plus radon and air quality monitor
- C-NRPP 2024/25: Approved
- Battery
- Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
- Screen, app
Method: Alpha spectrometry
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Barbour County, Bordering counties
Counties bordering Barbour County
Calculated by Radon411- Radon levels in Pike County, ALEPA zone 3
44.4%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.7 pCi/L · 9 tests
- Radon levels in Henry County, ALEPA zone 3
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 2.1 pCi/L · 1 test
- Radon levels in Russell County, ALEPA zone 2
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 0.9 pCi/L · 3 tests
- Radon levels in Dale County, ALEPA zone 3
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 2.1 pCi/L · 1 test
- Radon levels in Quitman County, GAEPA zone 3
No CDC figure for 2008 to 2017; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
- Radon levels in Bullock County, ALEPA zone 2
No CDC figure for 2008 to 2017; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
- Radon levels in Clay County, GAEPA zone 3
No CDC figure for 2008 to 2017; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
- Radon levels in Stewart County, GAEPA zone 3
No CDC figure for 2008 to 2017; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
Barbour County, Cities and towns
Cities and towns in Barbour County
About 24,607 people live in Barbour County by the Census Bureau's estimate for July 1, 2025, 351 fewer than in 2020 (−1.4%). That works out to 28 people per square mile of land. Eufaula alone is home to 12,437 of them, 50.5% of the total. Together its 6 incorporated places hold 67.1% of those residents; the other 32.9% live outside any of them. Reported testing is thin here: 2 tests over 2008 to 2017, or 0.1 for every 1,000 residents (2025 estimate), where Alabama as a whole comes to 2.4.
From Eufaula to Blue Springs, CDC publishes no figure by town: each reads Barbour County's.
| Place | Residents | Since 2020 | Share of residents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eufaula | 12,437 | −3.3% | 50.5% |
| Clayton | 2,195 | −2.9% | 8.9% |
| Clio | 1,202 | −0.8% | 4.9% |
| Louisville | 386 | −2.5% | 1.6% |
| Bakerhill | 206 | −4.2% | 0.8% |
| Blue Springs | 78 | −4.9% | 0.3% |
6 incorporated places, as listed in the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 place reference files. Residents: U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for July 1, 2025 (Vintage 2025).
Barbour County, Homes
Homes in Barbour County
Of Barbour County's 11,702 homes, 58% are detached houses, against 69% across Alabama; 28% are mobile homes. Half of its homes were built before 1982, close to Alabama's 1985: 19% date from before 1960 and 15% from 2000 or later. 67% of occupied homes are lived in by their owner (Alabama: 70%); in the rest a tenant can run a test, but a fix is the landlord's to make.
| Homes | Barbour County | Alabama |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 11,702 | 2,316,192 |
| Detached houses | 58% | 69% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 4% | 12% |
| Mobile homes | 28% | 13% |
| Built before 1960 | 19% | 16% |
| Built since 2000 | 15% | 27% |
| Middle year built | 1982 | 1985 |
| Owner-occupied | 67% | 70% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.