Short-term kit
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 Woodson County, Kansas
EPA puts Woodson County in Zone 2, its middle radon zone, and only 1 radon test from it is on file with CDC (2022). Homes with elevated levels occur in all three zones, so only a test measures yours.
Data checked By Radon411Methodology
Nearest county
38.0%
Lyon County, 45 miles
- Lyon
- 38.0%
- Kansas
- 33.7%
Share at 4+ pCi/L, 50 tests, 2019
Ground above low
100.0%
Level with Kansas
- Woodson
- 100.0%
- Kansas
- 100.0%
Share of land USGS rates moderate or high potential
Tests reported
2
Too few for a share
- Woodson
- 2
- Needed
- 30
2020
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 Woodson 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
Woodson County, At a glance
Woodson County at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
EPA Zone 2: moderate predicted potential
Woodson 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 Woodson County, 2022
| Year | Share of reported tests at or above 4 pCi/L |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.0% |
2022: 0.0%. Across these years the share ran from 0.0% to 0.0%. Each column counts radon tests reported to CDC that year, not homes.
What these figures count
Only 1 test was reported to CDC for Woodson 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).
Woodson County, Compared
Woodson County radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411CDC's largest figure for Woodson County rests on 2 tests in 2020, 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 3.4 pCi/L, with a middle value of 2.0 pCi/L.
The nearest counties with a figure are Lyon County (45 miles away) at 38.0%, Osage County (53 miles away) at 31.0% and Franklin County (53 miles away) at 21.2%. 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 Woodson 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.
Woodson County, Geology
The ground under Woodson County
PredictedUSGS's geologic map puts all of Woodson 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.
Woodson County beside the ground around it
Across Kansas 59.9% of the land is rated high; none of Woodson 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
Woodson County, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Woodson 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
Woodson County, Questions
Questions about radon in Woodson County
Are radon levels high in Woodson County?
In 2022, 0.0% of the radon tests reported to CDC for Woodson County, Kansas were at or above 4 pCi/L, and the median reported pre-mitigation result was 1.4 pCi/L. Of the 8 nearest counties with a figure, within 75 miles, the share of tests at or above 4 pCi/L runs from 21.2% to 41.6%.
Which counties border Woodson County?
Woodson County borders 6 counties: Coffey County, Allen County, Wilson County, Greenwood County, Anderson County and Neosho County.
Products
Woodson County, Products
Testing a home in Woodson County
No CDC figure names Woodson County; the nearest county with one, Lyon County (45 miles away), reported 38.0% 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 Woodson 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
Corentium Home battery digital radon detector
- C-NRPP 2024/25: Approved
- Battery
- Screen
Method: Alpha spectrometry
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Woodson County, Bordering counties
Counties bordering Woodson County
Calculated by Radon411- Radon levels in Anderson CountyEPA zone 2
50.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 3.7 pCi/L · 22 tests
- Radon levels in Neosho CountyEPA zone 2
41.7%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 2.0 pCi/L · 12 tests
- Radon levels in Coffey CountyEPA zone 2
16.7%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 2.1 pCi/L · 12 tests
- Radon levels in Greenwood CountyEPA zone 2
16.7%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 2.1 pCi/L · 6 tests
- Radon levels in Allen CountyEPA zone 2
14.3%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 0.6 pCi/L · 7 tests
- Radon levels in Wilson CountyEPA zone 2
No CDC figure for 2019; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
Woodson County, Cities and towns
Cities and towns in Woodson County
The Census Bureau estimates 3,118 residents in Woodson County for July 1, 2025, 23 more than in 2020 (+0.7%). Spread over its land, that is 6.3 people to the square mile. Its largest town, Yates Center, has 1,308 residents, 41.9% of the total. Together its 3 incorporated places hold 53.0% of those residents; the other 47.0% live outside any of them. Reported testing is thin here: 2 tests over 2020, or 0.6 for every 1,000 residents (2025 estimate), where Kansas as a whole comes to 7.7.
From Yates Center to Neosho Falls, CDC publishes no figure by town: each reads Woodson County's.
| Place | Residents | Since 2020 | Share of residents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yates Center | 1,308 | −2.5% | 41.9% |
| Toronto | 207 | +1.0% | 6.6% |
| Neosho Falls | 139 | +4.5% | 4.5% |
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).
Woodson County, Homes
Homes in Woodson County
Woodson County is a place of houses on their own lots: 82% of its 1,842 homes are detached single-family houses, against 72% across Kansas. The homes are older than Kansas' as a whole: half were built before 1960 (1975 for Kansas), and 50% date from before 1960. Owners live in 84% of the occupied homes (Kansas: 67%), so for most households a test and a fix are their own to order.
| Homes | Woodson County | Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 1,842 | 1,285,221 |
| Detached houses | 82% | 72% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 3% | 13% |
| Mobile homes | 10% | 4% |
| Built before 1960 | 50% | 33% |
| Built since 2000 | 11% | 20% |
| Middle year built | 1960 | 1975 |
| Owner-occupied | 84% | 67% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.