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Radon Short Term Test Kit short-term charcoal radon test kit, lab fee included
- Lab fee included
Method: Charcoal
In home: 2 to 7 days
Locations and reports
Radon Levels in Bourbon County, Kansas
EPA puts Bourbon County in Zone 2, its middle radon zone, and only 7 radon tests from it are on file with CDC (2022). Homes with elevated levels occur in all three zones, so only a test measures yours.
Data checked By Radon411Methodology
Highest bordering
26.0%
Crawford County
- Crawford
- 26.0%
1 of 6 neighbours have 30+ tests, 2019
Nearest county
26.0%
Crawford County, 24 miles
- Crawford
- 26.0%
- Kansas
- 33.7%
Share at 4+ pCi/L, 50 tests, 2019
Ground above low
100.0%
Level with Kansas
- Bourbon
- 100.0%
- Kansas
- 100.0%
Share of land USGS rates moderate or high potential
Tests reported
27
Too few for a share
- Bourbon
- 27
- Needed
- 30
2021
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 Bourbon 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
Bourbon County, At a glance
Bourbon County at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
EPA Zone 2: moderate predicted potential
Bourbon County is a
USGS geologic potential: Moderate across 100% of the county's area
Predicted: EPA Map of Radon Zones
Measured: tests reported to CDC
Radon tests reported for Bourbon County, 2022
| Year | Share of reported tests at or above 4 pCi/L |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 0.0% |
| 2017 | 16.0% |
| 2018 | 37.5% |
| 2019 | 47.6% |
| 2020 | 50.0% |
| 2021 | 44.4% |
| 2022 | 57.1% |
2022: 57.1%. Across these years the share ran from 0.0% to 57.1%. Each column counts radon tests reported to CDC that year, not homes.
What these figures count
Only 7 tests were reported to CDC for Bourbon County over 2022, 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: 2022. Measured data period: 2016 to 2022 (every CDC figure on file).
Bourbon County, Compared
Bourbon County radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411CDC's largest figure for Bourbon County rests on 27 tests in 2021, 12 of them at or above 4 pCi/L, so each test moves its share by 3.7 points and no rank or comparison is drawn from it. Results reached as high as 16.5 pCi/L, with a middle value of 3.3 pCi/L.
Crawford County, the one bordering county with a figure in 2019, reported 26.0% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L. Farther out, Miami County (49 miles away) at 35.0%, Franklin County (54 miles away) at 21.2% and Johnson County (71 miles away) at 38.2% have figures too. Pooled across 102 Kansas counties, 33.7% of reported tests reached that level; across every county in the country with a figure, 29.0%.
Statewide for the same period, Jewell County reported the highest share (71.9%) and Reno County the lowest (20.8%). EPA's 1993 map puts Bourbon County in Zone 2, its middle label: a predicted county average between 2 and 4 pCi/L. USGS geology rates 100% of the county's land moderate radon potential.
Pooled shares: Radon411's sum of CDC's county counts for one period.
Bourbon County, Geology
The ground under Bourbon County
PredictedUSGS's geologic map puts all of Bourbon County's mapped land in one class: moderate radon potential. All of it lies in the area the map calls Glaciated Area, to which USGS gives a radon index of 9, in the moderate band (9 to 11).
| Area | The rock, in USGS's words | Potential | Radon index | Share of land |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glaciated Area | Glacial till underlain by Pennsylvanian and Permian marine and nonmarine sedimentary shale, sandstone, limestone, coal. | Moderate | 9 | 100% |
Names, descriptions and indexes: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Radon Potential Map (2025). Shares: Radon411, from the map cut to the boundary.
Bourbon County beside the ground around it
Across Kansas 59.9% of the land is rated high; none of Bourbon County's is. Of the 6 counties that border it, none has as large a share of moderate-potential ground; Allen County comes nearest at 100%.
The map rates the ground, not the air in any home.
Local help
Bourbon County, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Bourbon County
- Kansas Radon ProgramKansas Radon Program answers questions about testing, mitigation and the rules in Kansas.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
- Professionals in Kansas178 professionals are listed in Kansas.
What Kansas's program says
- Phone
- (800) 693-5343
What it means
Bourbon County, Questions
Questions about radon in Bourbon County
Are radon levels high in Bourbon County?
In 2022, 57.1% of the radon tests reported to CDC for Bourbon County, Kansas were at or above 4 pCi/L, and the median reported pre-mitigation result was 4.6 pCi/L. Crawford County, the one bordering county with a figure in 2019, reported 26.0% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L.
Which counties border Bourbon County?
Bourbon County borders 6 counties: Linn County, KS, Allen County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Vernon County, MO, Anderson County, KS and Neosho County, KS.
Products
Bourbon County, Products
Testing a home in Bourbon County
No CDC figure names Bourbon County; the nearest county with one, Crawford County (24 miles away), reported 26.0% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L in 2019, 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 Bourbon 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
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- C-NRPP 2024/25: Approved
- Battery
- Screen
Method: Alpha spectrometry
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Bourbon County, Bordering counties
Counties bordering Bourbon County
Calculated by Radon411- Radon levels in Anderson County, KSEPA zone 2
50.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 3.7 pCi/L · 22 tests
- Radon levels in Neosho County, KSEPA zone 2
41.7%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 2.0 pCi/L · 12 tests
- Radon levels in Crawford County, KSEPA zone 2
26.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 2.1 pCi/L · 50 tests
- Radon levels in Linn County, KSEPA zone 2
21.4%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.6 pCi/L · 14 tests
- Radon levels in Allen County, KSEPA zone 2
14.3%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 0.6 pCi/L · 7 tests
- Radon levels in Vernon County, MOEPA zone 2
No CDC figure for 2019; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
Bourbon County, Cities and towns
Cities and towns in Bourbon County
Bourbon County's population has barely moved since 2020: 14,319 residents on July 1, 2025 against 14,339 then, by the Census Bureau's estimates. That works out to 23 people per square mile of land. Fort Scott alone is home to 7,500 of them, 52.4% of the total. Together its 6 incorporated places hold 59.1% of those residents; the other 40.9% live outside any of them. Reported testing is thin here: 27 tests over 2021, or 1.9 for every 1,000 residents (2025 estimate), where Kansas as a whole comes to 23.5.
From Fort Scott to Redfield, CDC publishes no figure by town: each reads Bourbon County's.
| Place | Residents | Since 2020 | Share of residents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Scott | 7,500 | −0.3% | 52.4% |
| Bronson | 305 | Level | 2.1% |
| Uniontown | 294 | +0.7% | 2.1% |
| Fulton | 168 | +1.2% | 1.2% |
| Mapleton | 97 | Level | 0.7% |
| Redfield | 97 | Level | 0.7% |
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).
Bourbon County, Homes
Homes in Bourbon County
Bourbon County is a place of houses on their own lots: 80% of its 6,768 homes are detached single-family houses, against 72% across Kansas. The homes are older than Kansas' as a whole: half were built before 1958 (1975 for Kansas), and 53% date from before 1960. 73% of occupied homes are lived in by their owner (Kansas: 67%); in the rest a tenant can run a test, but a fix is the landlord's to make.
| Homes | Bourbon County | Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 6,768 | 1,285,221 |
| Detached houses | 80% | 72% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 6% | 13% |
| Mobile homes | 9% | 4% |
| Built before 1960 | 53% | 33% |
| Built since 2000 | 11% | 20% |
| Middle year built | 1958 | 1975 |
| Owner-occupied | 73% | 67% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.