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In home: 90 days to 12 months
Locations and reports
Radon Levels in Meade County, Kansas
EPA puts Meade County in Zone 1, its highest radon zone, and only 9 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
52.2%
Seward County
- Seward
- 52.2%
- Ford
- 42.4%
2 of 6 neighbours have 30+ tests, 2019
Nearest county
52.2%
Seward County, 27 miles
- Seward
- 52.2%
- Kansas
- 33.7%
Share at 4+ pCi/L, 92 tests, 2019
Ground above low
100.0%
Level with Kansas
- Meade
- 100.0%
- Kansas
- 100.0%
Share of land USGS rates moderate or high potential
Tests reported
24
Too few for a share
- Meade
- 24
- Needed
- 30
2021
EPA radon zone
Zone 1
Highest potential
- Zone 1
- 2
- 3
1 highest, 3 lowest
EPA predicts over 4 pCi/L indoors
Read a result for Meade 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
Meade County, At a glance
Meade County at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
EPA Zone 1: highest predicted potential
EPA puts all of Meade County in
USGS geologic potential: High across 75% of the county's area
Predicted: EPA Map of Radon Zones
Measured: tests reported to CDC
Radon tests reported for Meade County, 2022
| Year | Share of reported tests at or above 4 pCi/L |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 76.9% |
| 2017 | 42.9% |
| 2018 | 100.0% |
| 2019 | 33.3% |
| 2021 | 62.5% |
| 2022 | 55.6% |
2022: 55.6%. Across these years the share ran from 33.3% to 100.0%. Each column counts radon tests reported to CDC that year, not homes.
What these figures count
Only 9 tests were reported to CDC for Meade 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).
Meade County, Compared
Meade County radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411CDC's largest figure for Meade County rests on 24 tests in 2021, 15 of them at or above 4 pCi/L, so each test moves its share by 4.2 points and no rank or comparison is drawn from it. Results reached as high as 8.9 pCi/L, with a middle value of 6.4 pCi/L.
Of the counties bordering it, 2 have a figure in 2019: Seward County reported the largest share at or above 4 pCi/L, 52.2%, and Ford County the smallest, 42.4%. Farther out, Finney County (59 miles away) at 30.1%, Pawnee County (90 miles away) at 66.7% and Scott County (91 miles away) at 61.5% 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 Meade County in Zone 1, the map's highest label: a predicted county average above 4 pCi/L. USGS geology rates 75% of the county's land high radon potential.
Pooled shares: Radon411's sum of CDC's county counts for one period.
Meade County, Geology
The ground under Meade County
PredictedMost of the ground under Meade County is one class on USGS's geologic map: 75.3% of its land is high radon potential, with 24.7% moderate. The map puts 75.3% of Meade County in the area it calls Ogallala Formation and 21.7% in Cimmaron River Valley, with one smaller area beside them. USGS gives the first a radon index of 12, in the high band (12 to 17), and the second 10, in the moderate band (9 to 11).
| Area | The rock, in USGS's words | Potential | Radon index | Share of land |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ogallala Formation | Tertiary sandstone, in part covered by windblown eolian sand and loess deposits. | High | 12 | 75.3% |
| Cimmaron River Valley | Tertiary and Quaternary sandstone, siltstone, shale, and alluvium overlain by eolian sand and loess. | Moderate | 10 | 21.7% |
| Glaciated Area | Glacial till underlain by Pennsylvanian and Permian marine and nonmarine sedimentary shale, sandstone, limestone, coal. | Moderate | 9 | 3.1% |
Names, descriptions and indexes: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Radon Potential Map (2025). Shares: Radon411, from the map cut to the boundary.
Meade County beside the ground around it
Meade County has more high-potential ground than Kansas as a whole: 75.3% of its land against 59.9%. Of the 6 counties that border it, 2 have more high-potential ground, Haskell County the most at 91.7%.
The map rates the ground, not the air in any home.
Local help
Meade County, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Meade 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.
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- Professionals in Kansas178 professionals are listed in Kansas.
What Kansas's program says
- Phone
- (800) 693-5343
What it means
Meade County, Questions
Questions about radon in Meade County
Are radon levels high in Meade County?
In 2022, 55.6% of the radon tests reported to CDC for Meade County, Kansas were at or above 4 pCi/L, and the median reported pre-mitigation result was 4.3 pCi/L. Of the counties bordering it, 2 have a figure in 2019: Seward County reported the largest share at or above 4 pCi/L, 52.2%, and Ford County the smallest, 42.4%.
Which counties border Meade County?
Meade County borders 6 counties: Seward County, KS, Clark County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Ford County, KS, Haskell County, KS and Gray County, KS.
Products
Meade County, Products
Testing a home in Meade County
No CDC figure names Meade County; the nearest county with one, Seward County (27 miles away), reported 52.2% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L in 2019, the only reading nearby until a test of this home. In Zone 1 the year-round level in Meade County is the one to know: a long-term test (more than 90 days) or a monitor, with a short-term kit for a first answer.
Test kits and monitors3
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In home: 48 to 96 hours
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Meade County, Bordering counties
Counties bordering Meade County
Calculated by Radon411- Radon levels in Seward County, KSEPA zone 2
52.2%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 4.0 pCi/L · 92 tests
- Radon levels in Haskell County, KSEPA zone 1
50.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 5.5 pCi/L · 2 tests
- Radon levels in Gray County, KSEPA zone 1
44.4%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 3.5 pCi/L · 18 tests
- Radon levels in Ford County, KSEPA zone 1
42.4%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 3.3 pCi/L · 165 tests
- Radon levels in Clark County, KSEPA zone 2
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.5 pCi/L · 1 test
- Radon levels in Beaver County, OKEPA zone 2
No CDC figure for 2019; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
Meade County, Cities and towns
Cities and towns in Meade County
Meade County has been losing residents: from 4,059 in 2020 to 3,852 on July 1, 2025, a fall of 5.1% by the Census Bureau's estimates. Spread over its land, that is 3.9 people to the square mile. Its largest town, Meade, has 1,422 residents, 36.9% of the total. Together its 3 incorporated places hold 75.8% of those residents; the other 24.2% live outside any of them. Reported testing is thin here: 24 tests over 2021, or 6.2 for every 1,000 residents (2025 estimate), where Kansas as a whole comes to 23.5.
From Meade to Fowler, CDC publishes no figure by town: each reads Meade County's.
| Place | Residents | Since 2020 | Share of residents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meade | 1,422 | −5.1% | 36.9% |
| Plains | 991 | −4.5% | 25.7% |
| Fowler | 507 | −5.2% | 13.2% |
3 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).
Meade County, Homes
Homes in Meade County
Meade County is a place of houses on their own lots: 87% of its 1,869 homes are detached single-family houses, against 72% across Kansas. The homes are older than Kansas' as a whole: half were built before 1961 (1975 for Kansas), and 48% 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 | Meade County | Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 1,869 | 1,285,221 |
| Detached houses | 87% | 72% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 1% | 13% |
| Mobile homes | 9% | 4% |
| Built before 1960 | 48% | 33% |
| Built since 2000 | 4% | 20% |
| Middle year built | 1961 | 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.