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Locations and reports
Radon Levels in Cherokee County, Alabama
EPA puts Cherokee County in Zone 2, its middle radon zone, and only 10 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
Highest bordering
19.8%
Floyd County
- Floyd
- 19.8%
- DeKalb
- 13.2%
5 of 7 neighbours have 30+ tests, 2008 to 2017
Nearest county
13.2%
DeKalb County, 23 miles
- DeKalb
- 13.2%
- Alabama
- 21.9%
Share at 4+ pCi/L, 68 tests, 2008 to 2017
Ground above low
99.8%
35.2 pts above Alabama
- Cherokee
- 99.8%
- Alabama
- 64.7%
Share of land USGS rates moderate or high potential
Tests reported
10
Too few for a share
- Cherokee
- 10
- 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 Cherokee 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
Cherokee County, At a glance
Cherokee County at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
EPA Zone 2: moderate predicted potential
Cherokee County is a
USGS geologic potential: Moderate across 92% of the county's area
Predicted: EPA Map of Radon Zones
Measured: tests reported to CDC
Radon tests reported for Cherokee County, 2008 to 2017, laboratory
CDC holds 10 reported tests for Cherokee County over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, with a median of 1.5 pCi/L: too few to describe a county (Radon411 reads a share from 30 tests up). Cherokee County beside the counties around it is how this page reads it.
What these figures count
Only 10 tests were reported to CDC for Cherokee 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. Figure above: 2008 to 2017, laboratory. Measured data period: 2005 to 2017 (every CDC figure on file).
Cherokee County, Compared
Cherokee County radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411CDC's largest figure for Cherokee County rests on 10 tests over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, 1 of them at or above 4 pCi/L, so each test moves its share by 10.0 points and no rank or comparison is drawn from it. Results reached as high as 4.2 pCi/L, with a middle value of 1.5 pCi/L.
Of the counties bordering it, 5 have a figure over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals: Floyd County, GA reported the largest share at or above 4 pCi/L, 19.8%, and DeKalb County the smallest, 13.2%, with Etowah County at 19.6%, Calhoun County at 18.9% and Cleburne County at 18.8% between. Farther out, Marshall County (42 miles away) at 15.1%, Jackson County (47 miles away) at 17.5% and St. Clair County (52 miles away) at 14.0% have figures too. 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 Cherokee County in Zone 2, its middle label: a predicted county average between 2 and 4 pCi/L. USGS geology rates 92% of the county's land moderate radon potential.
Pooled shares: Radon411's sum of CDC's county counts for one period.
Cherokee County, Geology
The ground under Cherokee County
PredictedMost of the ground under Cherokee County is one class on USGS's geologic map: 91.6% of its land is moderate radon potential, with 8.2% high and 0.2% low. The map puts 91.6% of Cherokee County in the area it calls Valley and Ridge and 8.2% in Northern Piedmont. USGS gives the first a radon index of 9, in the moderate band (9 to 11), and the second 12, in the high band (12 to 17).
| Area | The rock, in USGS's words | Potential | Radon index | Share of land |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valley and Ridge | Chattanooga black shale, Cambrian-Ordovician limestone and sandstone. | Moderate | 9 | 91.6% |
| Northern Piedmont | Schist, metagraywake, phyllite, quartz diorite gneiss, amphibolite gneiss, quartz monzonite. | High | 12 | 8.2% |
Names, descriptions and indexes: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Radon Potential Map (2025). Shares: Radon411, from the map cut to the boundary.
Cherokee County beside the ground around it
On high-potential ground Cherokee County is close to Alabama as a whole: 8.2% of its land against 14.3%. Of the 7 counties that border it, 2 have more high-potential ground, Cleburne County the most at 88.1%.
The map rates the ground, not the air in any home.
Local help
Cherokee County, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Cherokee 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
Cherokee County, Questions
Questions about radon in Cherokee County
Are radon levels high in Cherokee County?
Over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, 10.0% of the radon tests reported to CDC for Cherokee County, Alabama were at or above 4 pCi/L, and the median reported pre-mitigation result was 1.5 pCi/L. Of the counties bordering it, 5 have a figure over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals: Floyd County, GA reported the largest share at or above 4 pCi/L, 19.8%, and DeKalb County the smallest, 13.2%, with Etowah County at 19.6%, Calhoun County at 18.9% and Cleburne County at 18.8% between.
Which counties border Cherokee County?
Cherokee County borders 7 counties: DeKalb County, AL, Chattooga County, GA, Etowah County, AL, Floyd County, GA, Polk County, GA, Calhoun County, AL and Cleburne County, AL.
Products
Cherokee County, Products
Testing a home in Cherokee County
No CDC figure names Cherokee County; the nearest county with one, DeKalb County (23 miles away), reported 13.2% 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 Cherokee County; a long-term test tells the year-round average.
Test kits and monitors3
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Long-term kit
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Method: Alpha track
In home: 90 days to 12 months
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HOUND-1085 palm-sized rechargeable radon detector
- C-NRPP 2024/25: Not included
- Battery
- Alarm
- Screen
Method: Semiconductor sensor
First reading: Within 6 hours
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Cherokee County, Bordering counties
Counties bordering Cherokee County
Calculated by Radon411- Radon levels in Chattooga County, GAEPA zone 3
60.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 5.0 pCi/L · 15 tests
- Radon levels in Polk County, GAEPA zone 3
57.1%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 4.9 pCi/L · 21 tests
- Radon levels in Floyd County, GAEPA zone 2
19.8%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.9 pCi/L · 116 tests
- Radon levels in Etowah County, ALEPA zone 2
19.6%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.4 pCi/L · 56 tests
- Radon levels in Calhoun County, ALEPA zone 1
18.9%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.4 pCi/L · 238 tests
- Radon levels in Cleburne County, ALEPA zone 1
18.8%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.5 pCi/L · 69 tests
- Radon levels in DeKalb County, ALEPA zone 2
13.2%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 0.9 pCi/L · 68 tests
Cherokee County, Cities and towns
Cities and towns in Cherokee County
Cherokee County is growing: the Census Bureau puts it at 26,413 residents on July 1, 2025, up 5.7% from 24,978 in 2020. That works out to 48 people per square mile of land. Piedmont, the largest place on its list (4,696 residents in all), extends beyond Cherokee County, so no share of the total is worked out for it. Reported testing is thin here: 10 tests over 2008 to 2017, or 0.4 for every 1,000 residents (2025 estimate), where Alabama as a whole comes to 2.4.
From Piedmont to Gaylesville, CDC publishes no figure by town: each reads Cherokee County's.
| Place | Residents | Since 2020 | Share of residents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piedmontextends beyond Cherokee County | 4,696 | −2.1% | Counted whole |
| Centre | 3,912 | +8.7% | 14.8% |
| Collinsvilleextends beyond Cherokee County | 2,121 | +2.7% | Counted whole |
| Cedar Bluff | 1,948 | +6.3% | 7.4% |
| Leesburg | 1,009 | +4.7% | 3.8% |
| Sand Rockextends beyond Cherokee County | 620 | +5.1% | Counted whole |
| Gaylesville | 181 | +3.4% | 0.7% |
7 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). A place that extends beyond Cherokee County is counted whole, so it has no share.
Cherokee County, Homes
Homes in Cherokee County
Of Cherokee County's 14,663 homes, 70% are detached houses, against 69% across Alabama; 25% are mobile homes. Half of its homes were built before 1987, close to Alabama's 1985: 14% date from before 1960 and 27% from 2000 or later. Owners live in 79% of the occupied homes (Alabama: 70%), so for most households a test and a fix are their own to order.
| Homes | Cherokee County | Alabama |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 14,663 | 2,316,192 |
| Detached houses | 70% | 69% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 3% | 12% |
| Mobile homes | 25% | 13% |
| Built before 1960 | 14% | 16% |
| Built since 2000 | 27% | 27% |
| Middle year built | 1987 | 1985 |
| Owner-occupied | 79% | 70% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.