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Radon Levels in Pierce County, Georgia

EPA puts Pierce County in Zone 3, its lowest radon zone, and only 12 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.

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  • Nearest county

    0.0%

    Chatham County, 78 miles

    Chatham
    0.0%
    Georgia
    23.9%

    Share at 4+ pCi/L, 47 tests, 2007 to 2016

  • Ground above low

    None

    26.5 pts below Georgia

    Pierce
    0.0%
    Georgia
    26.5%

    Share of land USGS rates moderate or high potential

  • Tests reported

    16

    Too few for a share

    Pierce
    16
    Needed
    30

    2006 to 2015, laboratory

  • EPA radon zone

    Zone 3

    Lower potential

    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. Zone 3

    1 highest, 3 lowest

    EPA predicts under 2 pCi/L indoors

Read a result for Pierce County

Starts at EPA's action level

4.0pCi/L

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

  1. Under 20 to 1.9 pCi/L
  2. 2 to 4consider a fix
  3. 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.

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The data

Pierce County, At a glance

Pierce County at a glance

Predicted: EPA radon zone

EPA Zone 3: lower predicted potential

is EPA's lowest class, and its forecast for Pierce County as a whole is an average indoor of less than 2 pCi/L (less than 75 Bq/m³). A low zone clears no address in it: homes above EPA's turn up in all three zones.

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 Pierce County, 2008 to 2017, laboratory

CDC holds 12 reported tests for Pierce County over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, with a median of 0.1 pCi/L: too few to describe a county (Radon411 reads a share from 30 tests up). Pierce County beside the counties around it is how this page reads it.

What these figures count

Only 12 tests were reported to CDC for Pierce 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).

How to read these figures

Pierce County, Compared

Pierce County radon figures, compared

Calculated by Radon411

CDC's largest figure for Pierce County rests on 16 tests over the 2006 to 2015 laboratory totals, 0 of them at or above 4 pCi/L, so each test moves its share by 6.3 points and no rank or comparison is drawn from it. Results reached as high as 1.2 pCi/L, with a middle value of 0.1 pCi/L.

The nearest counties with a figure are Chatham County (78 miles away) at 0.0%, Laurens County (87 miles away) at 16.1% and Houston County (114 miles away) at 8.2%. 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 Pierce 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.

Georgia, the United States and the counties around Pierce County, 2007 to 2016, laboratory
AreaTestsAt or above 4 pCi/LMedian
Georgia, pooled137 counties, pooled29,45523.9%Not pooled
United States, pooled2,666 counties, pooled1,939,02535.8%Not pooled
Barrow Countyhighest in the state34151.0%4.0 pCi/L
Dougherty Countylowest in the state320.0%0.6 pCi/L
Ware County, GAborders it150.0%0.1 pCi/L
Wayne County, GAborders it30.0%0.5 pCi/L
The nearest Georgia counties to Pierce County with 30 or more tests, 2007 to 2016, laboratory
CountyDistanceTestsAt or above 4 pCi/LMedian
Chatham County78 mi470.0%0.6 pCi/L
Laurens County87 mi3116.1%0.9 pCi/L
Houston County114 mi618.2%1.5 pCi/L
Dougherty County119 mi320.0%0.6 pCi/L
Bibb County132 mi960.0%1.0 pCi/L
Richmond County138 mi350.0%1.3 pCi/L
Jones County139 mi3426.5%2.0 pCi/L
Columbia County151 mi729.7%0.8 pCi/L
Pierce County ten-year laboratory totals, against Georgia's pooled share
PeriodTestsAt or above 4 pCi/LMedianHighestGeorgia, pooledChange from the row before
2008 to 2017120.0%0.1 pCi/L1.2 pCi/L24.8%Level
2007 to 2016120.0%0.1 pCi/L1.2 pCi/L23.9%Level
2006 to 2015160.0%0.1 pCi/L1.2 pCi/L23.7%Level
2005 to 2014160.0%0.1 pCi/L1.2 pCi/L23.2%First on file

Pooled shares: Radon411's sum of CDC's county counts for one period.

Pierce County, Geology

The ground under Pierce County

Predicted

USGS's geologic map puts all of Pierce County's mapped land in one class: low radon potential. The map puts 90.6% of Pierce County in the area it calls Coastal Plain and 9.4% in Coastal Plain. USGS gives the first a radon index of 8 and the second 7, both in the low band (5 to 8).

USGS's geologic areas under Pierce County
AreaThe rock, in USGS's wordsPotentialRadon indexShare of land
Coastal PlainCretaceous and Tertiary marine and coastal sediments including limestone, sandstone, sand, silt, and clay. Coastal plan sands containing glauconite may generate locally elevated radon.Low890.6%
Coastal PlainQuaternary and Pleistocene-Pliocene coastal sand and gravel, lagoon and marsh clay and silt.Low79.4%

Names, descriptions and indexes: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Radon Potential Map (2025). Shares: Radon411, from the map cut to the boundary.

Pierce County beside the ground around it

Across Georgia 26.5% of the land is rated moderate; none of Pierce County's is. None of the 5 counties that border it has any moderate-potential ground either.

Share of land by USGS radon potential: Pierce County, the 5 counties bordering it and Georgia
AreaEPA zoneLow potentialModerate potentialHigh potential
Pierce CountyZone 3100%NoneNone
Brantley CountyZone 3100%NoneNone
Bacon CountyZone 3100%NoneNone
Wayne CountyZone 3100%NoneNone
Ware CountyZone 3100%NoneNone
Appling CountyZone 3100%NoneNone
Georgia159 counties, pooled by land areaVaries73.1%26.5%None

The map rates the ground, not the air in any home.

Local help

Pierce County, Local resources

Radon testing and mitigation in Pierce County

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

Pierce County, Questions

Questions about radon in Pierce County

Are radon levels high in Pierce County?

Over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, 0.0% of the radon tests reported to CDC for Pierce County, Georgia were at or above 4 pCi/L, and the median reported pre-mitigation result was 0.1 pCi/L. Of the 8 nearest counties with a figure, within 151 miles, the share of tests at or above 4 pCi/L runs from 0.0% to 26.5%.

Which counties border Pierce County?

Pierce County borders 5 counties: Brantley County, Bacon County, Wayne County, Ware County and Appling County.

Products

Pierce County, Products

Testing a home in Pierce County

No CDC figure names Pierce County; the nearest county with one, Chatham County (78 miles away), reported 0.0% 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 Pierce County.

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Pierce County, Bordering counties

Counties bordering Pierce County

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Pierce County, Cities and towns

Cities and towns in Pierce County

Pierce County is growing: the Census Bureau puts it at 20,764 residents on July 1, 2025, up 5.1% from 19,749 in 2020. That works out to 61 people per square mile of land. Waycross, the largest place on its list (13,936 residents in all), extends beyond Pierce County, so no share of the total is worked out for it. Reported testing is thin here: 16 tests over 2006 to 2015, or 0.8 for every 1,000 residents (2025 estimate), where Georgia as a whole comes to 2.5.

From Waycross to Offerman, CDC publishes no figure by town: each reads Pierce County's.

The cities and towns in Pierce County by residents, July 1, 2025
PlaceResidentsSince 2020Share of residents
Waycrossextends beyond Pierce County13,936LevelCounted whole
Blackshear3,680+5.2%17.7%
Patterson782+3.4%3.8%
Offerman474+5.8%2.3%

4 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 Pierce County is counted whole, so it has no share.

Pierce County, Homes

Homes in Pierce County

Of Pierce County's 8,459 homes, 65% are detached houses, against 66% across Georgia; 31% are mobile homes. Half of its homes were built before 1989, close to Georgia's 1991: 8% date from before 1960 and 25% from 2000 or later. Owners live in 78% of the occupied homes (Georgia: 65%), so for most households a test and a fix are their own to order.

Homes in Pierce County, Georgia, 2019 to 2023
HomesPierce CountyGeorgia
Housing units8,4594,483,873
Detached houses65%66%
In buildings of 5 or more3%16%
Mobile homes31%8%
Built before 19608%12%
Built since 200025%33%
Middle year built19891991
Owner-occupied78%65%

Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.