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Locations and reports
Radon Levels in Pershing County, Nevada
EPA puts Pershing County in Zone 1, its highest radon zone, and only 25 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.
Data checked By Radon411Methodology
Highest bordering
32.3%
Humboldt County
- Humboldt
- 32.3%
- Churchill
- 12.4%
3 of 4 neighbours have 30+ tests, 2008 to 2017
Nearest county
12.4%
Churchill County, 59 miles
- Churchill
- 12.4%
- Nevada
- 22.8%
Share at 4+ pCi/L, 161 tests, 2008 to 2017
Ground above low
100.0%
7.9 pts above Nevada
- Pershing
- 100.0%
- Nevada
- 92.1%
Share of land USGS rates moderate or high potential
Tests reported
25
Too few for a share
- Pershing
- 25
- Needed
- 30
2008 to 2017, laboratory
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 Pershing 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
Pershing County, At a glance
Pershing County at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
EPA Zone 1: highest predicted potential
EPA puts all of Pershing County in
USGS geologic potential: Moderate across 89% of the county's area
Predicted: EPA Map of Radon Zones
Measured: tests reported to CDC
Radon tests reported for Pershing County, 2008 to 2017, laboratory
CDC holds 25 reported tests for Pershing County over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, with a median of 4.2 pCi/L: too few to describe a county (Radon411 reads a share from 30 tests up). Pershing County beside the counties around it is how this page reads it.
What these figures count
Only 25 tests were reported to CDC for Pershing 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).
Pershing County, Compared
Pershing County radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411CDC's largest figure for Pershing County rests on 25 tests over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, 13 of them at or above 4 pCi/L, so each test moves its share by 4.0 points and no rank or comparison is drawn from it. Results reached as high as 33.6 pCi/L, with a middle value of 4.2 pCi/L.
Of the counties bordering it, 3 have a figure over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals: Humboldt County reported the largest share at or above 4 pCi/L, 32.3%, and Churchill County the smallest, 12.4%, with Washoe County at 22.2% between. Farther out, Storey County (91 miles away) at 17.6%, Lyon County (107 miles away) at 30.4% and Carson City (114 miles away) at 40.6% have figures too. Pooled across 16 Nevada counties, 22.8% of reported tests reached that level; across every county in the country with a figure, 35.7%.
Statewide for the same period, Carson City reported the highest share (40.6%) and Clark County the lowest (8.1%). EPA's 1993 map puts Pershing County in Zone 1, the map's highest label: a predicted county average above 4 pCi/L. USGS geology rates 89% of the county's land moderate radon potential.
Pooled shares: Radon411's sum of CDC's county counts for one period.
Pershing County, State data
Nevada's own radon test data
MeasuredWhat Nevada's own agencies publish about radon tests in Pershing County, with their period. These are not CDC's figures and are never added to them.
MeasuredState figures, not CDC's
What the Nevada Radon Education Program reports for the ZIP codes in Pershing County
The Nevada Radon Education Program publishes its figures by ZIP code, not by county. These are the 3 ZIP codes that lie wholly or partly in Pershing County, each with the state's own figures for it. Period: 1989-2015.
| ZIP code | What the state reports |
|---|---|
| 89418 | average 1.4 pCi/L |
| 89419 | average 7.3 pCi/L |
| 89445 | average 3.4 pCi/L |
- NBMG says the results are based on independently tested homes, not scientific sampling.
- The service publishes an average for each ZIP code but no count of tests.
- Site specific testing is the only way to determine local radon concentrations.
- A ZIP code that crosses the county line is listed whole; its figures cover all of it.
Measured: Nevada Radon Education Program data, 1989-2015.
Pershing County, Geology
The ground under Pershing County
PredictedMost of the ground under Pershing County is one class on USGS's geologic map: 89.5% of its land is moderate radon potential, with 10.5% high. The map puts 89.5% of Pershing County in the area it calls Great Basin and 4.4% in Great Basin, with 2 smaller areas beside them. USGS gives the first a radon index of 11, in the moderate band (9 to 11), and the second 12, in the high band (12 to 17).
| Area | The rock, in USGS's words | Potential | Radon index | Share of land |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Basin | Sandstone, shale, limestone, mafic volcanic rocks. | Moderate | 11 | 89.5% |
| Great Basin | Alluvium containing abundant organic-rich clays. | High | 12 | 4.4% |
| Great Basin | Triassic and Jurassic clastic sedimentary rocks, locally metamorphosed carbonate rocks intruded by Mesozoic granitic rocks. | High | 12 | 3.3% |
| Great Basin | Tertiary silicic ash-flow tuffs and granitic rocks. | High | 12 | 2.7% |
Names, descriptions and indexes: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Radon Potential Map (2025). Shares: Radon411, from the map cut to the boundary.
Pershing County beside the ground around it
On high-potential ground Pershing County is close to Nevada as a whole: 10.5% of its land against 17.3%. Of the 4 counties that border it, 3 have more high-potential ground, Lander County the most at 34.0%.
The map rates the ground, not the air in any home.
Local help
Pershing County, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Pershing County
- Nevada Radon Education ProgramNevada Radon Education Program, run by University Of Nevada, Reno, offers free or discounted test kits, and answers questions about testing and mitigation in Nevada.Visit the program’s page(opens in a new tab)
- Free and low-cost kitsThe program says:
The program offers literature, maps, educational presentations and low-cost radon test kits.
- Compare kits
- Professionals in Nevada20 professionals are listed in Nevada.
What Nevada's program says
- chrisk@unr.edu
What it means
Pershing County, Questions
Questions about radon in Pershing County
Are radon levels high in Pershing County?
Over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, 52.0% of the radon tests reported to CDC for Pershing County, Nevada were at or above 4 pCi/L, and the median reported pre-mitigation result was 4.2 pCi/L. Of the counties bordering it, 3 have a figure over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals: Humboldt County reported the largest share at or above 4 pCi/L, 32.3%, and Churchill County the smallest, 12.4%, with Washoe County at 22.2% between.
Which counties border Pershing County?
Pershing County borders 4 counties: Churchill County, Lander County, Washoe County and Humboldt County.
Products
Pershing County, Products
Testing a home in Pershing County
No CDC figure names Pershing County; the nearest county with one, Churchill County (59 miles away), reported 12.4% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, the only reading nearby until a test of this home. In Zone 1 the year-round level in Pershing 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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- Plug-in
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First reading: Within 5 minutes
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442020 short-term charcoal radon test kit
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In home: 3 days
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Pershing County, Bordering counties
Counties bordering Pershing County
Calculated by Radon411- Radon levels in Humboldt CountyEPA zone 2
32.3%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 2.3 pCi/L · 65 tests
- Radon levels in Lander CountyEPA zone 1
29.4%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 2.8 pCi/L · 17 tests
- Radon levels in Washoe CountyEPA zone 2
22.2%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.9 pCi/L · 5,046 tests
- Radon levels in Churchill CountyEPA zone 2
12.4%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 2.1 pCi/L · 161 tests
Pershing County, Cities and towns
Cities and towns in Pershing County
About 6,421 people live in Pershing County by the Census Bureau's estimate for July 1, 2025, 214 fewer than in 2020 (−3.2%). Spread over its land, that is 1.1 people to the square mile. Lovelock, its one incorporated place, has 1,771 residents, 27.6% of the total. CDC's 25 reported tests for 2008 to 2017 work out to 3.9 per 1,000 residents (2025 estimate), close to Nevada's 3.3.
Lovelock is the one incorporated place here; CDC publishes no figure by town, so it reads Pershing County's.
| Place | Residents | Since 2020 | Share of residents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lovelock | 1,771 | −2.5% | 27.6% |
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).
Pershing County, Homes
Homes in Pershing County
Mobile homes are 49% of Pershing County's 2,293 homes and detached houses 40%, against 60% across Nevada. The homes are older than Nevada's as a whole: half were built before 1986 (1996 for Nevada), and 12% date from before 1960. 74% of occupied homes are lived in by their owner (Nevada: 59%); in the rest a tenant can run a test, but a fix is the landlord's to make.
| Homes | Pershing County | Nevada |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 2,293 | 1,307,338 |
| Detached houses | 40% | 60% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 6% | 22% |
| Mobile homes | 49% | 6% |
| Built before 1960 | 12% | 5% |
| Built since 2000 | 10% | 40% |
| Middle year built | 1986 | 1996 |
| Owner-occupied | 74% | 59% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.