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Standard Radon Test short-term mail-in radon test kit
- Lab fee included
Method: Passive sampler
In home: 48 to 96 hours
Locations and reports
Radon Levels in Issaquena County, Mississippi
EPA puts Issaquena County in Zone 3, its lowest radon zone. Homes with elevated levels occur in all three zones, so only a test measures yours.
Data checked By Radon411Methodology
Nearest county
0.0%
Tangipahoa Parish, 150 miles
- Tangipahoa Parish
- 0.0%
Share at 4+ pCi/L, 43 tests, 2006 to 2015
Ground above low
None
8.1 pts below MS
- Issaquena
- 0.0%
- MS
- 8.1%
Share of land USGS rates moderate or high potential
Tests reported
0
None published
A home here needs its own test
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 Issaquena 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
Issaquena County, At a glance
Issaquena 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
No CDC test figures here
CDC has published no radon test figures for Issaquena County. Tangipahoa Parish, LA, 150 miles away, is the nearest county with a figure over the 2006 to 2015 laboratory totals.
Issaquena County, Compared
Issaquena County radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411No Mississippi county, Issaquena County included, has a radon test figure from CDC; over the 2006 to 2015 laboratory totals, the agency's counts name 2,669 counties in other states. Across every county in the country with a figure (2,669), 36.3% of reported tests reached that level; no Mississippi county contributes to that pool.
The nearest counties with a figure are Tangipahoa Parish, LA (150 miles away) at 0.0%, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA (152 miles away) at 0.0% and Pulaski County, AR (159 miles away) at 6.2%.
EPA's 1993 map puts Issaquena 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.
Issaquena County, Geology
The ground under Issaquena County
PredictedUSGS's geologic map puts all of Issaquena County's mapped land in one class: low radon potential. 99.0% of it lies in the area the map calls Mississippi Alluvial 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Alluvial Plain | Alluvial sand, silt, gravel, and clay. | Low | 8 | 99.0% |
| Floodplain | Alluvium, marsh, silt, and clay. | Low | 7 | 1.0% |
Names, descriptions and indexes: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Radon Potential Map (2025). Shares: Radon411, from the map cut to the boundary.
Issaquena County beside the ground around it
Across Mississippi 0.1% of the land is rated high; none of Issaquena 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
Issaquena County, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Issaquena County
- Mississippi Radon ProgramMississippi Radon Program, run by Mississippi State Department of Health, answers questions about testing, mitigation and the rules in Mississippi.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
- See the Mississippi directoryNo professionals are listed in Mississippi yet. The state program can point you to registered testers and mitigators.
What Mississippi's program says
- Phone
- 1-800-626-7739
What it means
Issaquena County, Questions
Questions about radon in Issaquena County
Are radon levels high in Issaquena County?
No CDC testing statistics are published here for Issaquena County, Mississippi yet. Of the 8 nearest counties with a figure, within 203 miles, the share of tests at or above 4 pCi/L runs from 0.0% to 45.5%.
Which counties border Issaquena County?
Issaquena County borders 6 counties: East Carroll Parish, LA, Sharkey County, MS, Warren County, MS, Yazoo County, MS, Washington County, MS and Chicot County, AR.
Products
Issaquena County, Products
Testing a home in Issaquena County
No CDC figure names Issaquena County; the nearest county with one, Tangipahoa Parish, LA (150 miles away), reported 0.0% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L over the 2006 to 2015 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 Issaquena County.
Test kits and monitors3
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Long-term kit
RL416 long-term radon test kit, lab fee included
- Lab fee included
Method: Alpha track
In home: 90 days to 12 months
Monitor
Corentium Home 2 battery digital radon monitor
- C-NRPP 2024/25: Not included
- Battery
- Bluetooth
- Screen, app
Method: Alpha spectrometry
Readings: Every 60 minutes
- See every kit and monitor Test kits and monitors
Test kits and monitors: 1 of 3
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Issaquena County, Bordering counties
Counties bordering Issaquena County
Calculated by Radon411counties bordering Issaquena County: 1 of 6
Issaquena County, Cities and towns
Cities and towns in Issaquena County
About 1,263 people live in Issaquena County by the Census Bureau's estimate for July 1, 2025, 63 fewer than in 2020 (−4.8%). Spread over its land, that is 3.1 people to the square mile. Mayersville, its one incorporated place, has 453 residents, 35.9% of the total.
Mayersville is the one incorporated place here; CDC publishes no figure by town, so it reads Issaquena County's.
| Place | Residents | Since 2020 | Share of residents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayersville | 453 | +5.3% | 35.9% |
One incorporated place, 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).
Issaquena County, Homes
Homes in Issaquena County
Of Issaquena County's 438 homes, 57% are detached houses, against 69% across Mississippi; 21% are mobile homes. Half of its homes were built before 1987, close to Mississippi's 1986: 11% date from before 1960 and 18% from 2000 or later. 63% of occupied homes are lived in by their owner (Mississippi: 69%); in the rest a tenant can run a test, but a fix is the landlord's to make.
| Homes | Issaquena County | Mississippi |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 438 | 1,332,811 |
| Detached houses | 57% | 69% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 8% | 9% |
| Mobile homes | 21% | 15% |
| Built before 1960 | 11% | 15% |
| Built since 2000 | 18% | 28% |
| Middle year built | 1987 | 1986 |
| Owner-occupied | 63% | 69% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.