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Locations and reports
Radon Levels in Dooly County, Georgia
EPA puts Dooly County in Zone 3, its lowest radon zone, and only 2 radon tests from it are on file with CDC (2007 to 2016, laboratory totals). Homes with elevated levels occur in all three zones, so only a test measures yours.
Data checked By Radon411Methodology
Highest bordering
8.2%
Houston County
- Houston
- 8.2%
1 of 6 neighbours have 30+ tests, 2007 to 2016
Nearest county
8.2%
Houston County, 22 miles
- Houston
- 8.2%
- Georgia
- 23.9%
Share at 4+ pCi/L, 61 tests, 2007 to 2016
Ground above low
None
26.5 pts below Georgia
- Dooly
- 0.0%
- Georgia
- 26.5%
Share of land USGS rates moderate or high potential
Tests reported
2
Too few for a share
- Dooly
- 2
- Needed
- 30
2007 to 2016, laboratory
EPA radon zone
Zone 3
Lower potential
- 1
- 2
- Zone 3
1 highest, 3 lowest
EPA predicts under 2 pCi/L indoors
Read a result for Dooly 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
Dooly County, At a glance
Dooly County at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
EPA Zone 3: lower predicted potential
USGS geologic potential: Low across 100% of the county's area
Predicted: EPA Map of Radon Zones
Measured: tests reported to CDC
Radon tests reported for Dooly County, 2007 to 2016, laboratory
CDC holds 2 reported tests for Dooly County over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, with a median of 0.5 pCi/L: too few to describe a county (Radon411 reads a share from 30 tests up). Dooly County beside the counties around it is how this page reads it.
What these figures count
Only 2 tests were reported to CDC for Dooly County over 2007 to 2016 (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: 2007 to 2016, laboratory. Measured data period: 2005 to 2016 (every CDC figure on file).
Dooly County, Compared
Dooly County radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411CDC's largest figure for Dooly County rests on 2 tests over the 2007 to 2016 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 0.8 pCi/L, with a middle value of 0.5 pCi/L.
Houston County, the one bordering county with a figure over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, reported 8.2% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L. Farther out, Bibb County (45 miles away) at 0.0%, Dougherty County (49 miles away) at 0.0% and Laurens County (55 miles away) at 16.1% have figures too. Pooled across 137 Georgia counties, 23.9% of reported tests reached that level; across every county in the country with a figure, 35.8%.
Statewide for the same period, Barrow County reported the highest share (51.0%) and Dougherty County the lowest (0.0%). EPA's 1993 map puts Dooly County in Zone 3, its lowest label: a predicted county average under 2 pCi/L. USGS geology rates 100% of the county's land low radon potential.
Pooled shares: Radon411's sum of CDC's county counts for one period.
Dooly County, Geology
The ground under Dooly County
PredictedUSGS's geologic map puts all of Dooly County's mapped land in one class: low radon potential. All of it lies in the area the map calls Coastal Plain, to which USGS gives a radon index of 8, in the low band (5 to 8).
| Area | The rock, in USGS's words | Potential | Radon index | Share of land |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 100% |
Names, descriptions and indexes: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Radon Potential Map (2025). Shares: Radon411, from the map cut to the boundary.
Dooly County beside the ground around it
Across Georgia 26.5% of the land is rated moderate; none of Dooly County's is. None of the 6 counties that border it has any moderate-potential ground either.
The map rates the ground, not the air in any home.
Local help
Dooly County, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Dooly County
- Georgia's radon programGeorgia Attorney General's Consumer Protection DivisionGeorgia's radon program does not license radon professionals and offers free or discounted test kits, and answers questions about testing and mitigation in Georgia.Visit the program’s page(opens in a new tab)
- Free and low-cost kitsThe program says:
A kit costs $15.00 if mailed or $10.00 if picked up at a participating County Extension office.
- Compare kits
- Professionals in Georgia3 professionals are listed in Georgia.
What Georgia's program says
- Licensing of radon professionals
There are no laws mandating a mitigator receive certification in Georgia, however, many mitigators choose to get certified by one of two national programs.
What it means
Dooly County, Questions
Questions about radon in Dooly County
Are radon levels high in Dooly County?
Over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, 0.0% of the radon tests reported to CDC for Dooly County, Georgia were at or above 4 pCi/L, and the median reported pre-mitigation result was 0.5 pCi/L. Houston County, the one bordering county with a figure over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, reported 8.2% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L.
Which counties border Dooly County?
Dooly County borders 6 counties: Crisp County, Macon County, Pulaski County, Sumter County, Houston County and Wilcox County.
Products
Dooly County, Products
Testing a home in Dooly County
No CDC figure names Dooly County; the nearest county with one, Houston County (22 miles away), reported 8.2% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, the only reading nearby until a test of this home. Zone 3 is the lowest label, yet homes at or above 4 pCi/L occur in every zone: a short-term kit (2 to 90 days) is the quick first check in Dooly County.
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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Dooly County, Bordering counties
Counties bordering Dooly County
Calculated by Radon411- Radon levels in Crisp CountyEPA zone 3
50.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 4.3 pCi/L · 2 tests
- Radon levels in Sumter CountyEPA zone 3
20.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 3.7 pCi/L · 5 tests
- Radon levels in Houston CountyEPA zone 3
8.2%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.5 pCi/L · 61 tests
- Radon levels in Macon CountyEPA zone 3
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.0 pCi/L · 2 tests
- Radon levels in Pulaski CountyEPA zone 3
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 0.6 pCi/L · 18 tests
- Radon levels in Wilcox CountyEPA zone 3
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 0.1 pCi/L · 3 tests
Dooly County, Cities and towns
Cities and towns in Dooly County
Dooly County's population has barely moved since 2020: 11,156 residents on July 1, 2025 against 11,166 then, by the Census Bureau's estimates. That works out to 28 people per square mile of land. Its largest town, Unadilla, has 3,091 residents, 27.7% of the total. Together its 6 incorporated places hold 61.8% of those residents; the other 38.2% live outside any of them. Reported testing is thin here: 2 tests over 2007 to 2016, or 0.2 for every 1,000 residents (2025 estimate), where Georgia as a whole comes to 2.6.
From Unadilla to Dooling, CDC publishes no figure by town: each reads Dooly County's.
| Place | Residents | Since 2020 | Share of residents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unadilla | 3,091 | −0.7% | 27.7% |
| Vienna | 2,961 | +1.5% | 26.5% |
| Byromville | 350 | −21.3% | 3.1% |
| Pinehurst | 290 | −5.2% | 2.6% |
| Lilly | 132 | +1.5% | 1.2% |
| Dooling | 68 | +3.0% | 0.6% |
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).
Dooly County, Homes
Homes in Dooly County
Of Dooly County's 4,796 homes, 61% are detached houses, against 66% across Georgia; 30% are mobile homes. The homes are older than Georgia's as a whole: half were built before 1980 (1991 for Georgia), and 18% date from before 1960. 67% of occupied homes are lived in by their owner (Georgia: 65%); in the rest a tenant can run a test, but a fix is the landlord's to make.
| Homes | Dooly County | Georgia |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 4,796 | 4,483,873 |
| Detached houses | 61% | 66% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 3% | 16% |
| Mobile homes | 30% | 8% |
| Built before 1960 | 18% | 12% |
| Built since 2000 | 14% | 33% |
| Middle year built | 1980 | 1991 |
| Owner-occupied | 67% | 65% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.