Short-term kitFirst Alert
RD1 short-term charcoal radon test kit
- Lab fee included
Method: Charcoal
In home: 2 to 4 days
Locations and reports
Radon Levels in Barranquitas Municipio, Puerto Rico
EPA has no radon zone on file for Barranquitas Municipio, and the only way to know your home's level is to test it.
Tests reported
0
None published
A home here needs its own test
Read a result for Barranquitas Municipio
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
Barranquitas Municipio, At a glance
Barranquitas Municipio at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
No EPA zone on file
Radon411 has no EPA radon zone on file for Barranquitas Municipio, Puerto Rico, and it does not guess one.
A prediction for the whole county, not a measurement of any address: elevated homes occur in all three zones.
Predicted: no EPA zone on file yet
Measured: tests reported to CDC
No CDC test figures here
CDC has published no radon test figures for Barranquitas Municipio. Only a test tells you the level in a home.
Barranquitas Municipio, Compared
Barranquitas Municipio radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411No Puerto Rico county, Barranquitas Municipio 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 Puerto Rico county contributes to that pool.
Pooled shares: Radon411's sum of CDC's county counts for one period.
Local help
Barranquitas Municipio, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Barranquitas Municipio
- Puerto Rico's radon programRadon411 has no radon program on file for Puerto Rico. The state radon programs list covers the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
- Free and low-cost kitsAsk the program whether it has free or discounted kits, or compare kits you can buy.
- Compare kits
- See the Puerto Rico directoryNo professionals are listed in Puerto Rico yet. The state program can point you to registered testers and mitigators.
What it means
Barranquitas Municipio, Questions
Questions about radon in Barranquitas Municipio
Are radon levels high in Barranquitas Municipio?
No CDC testing statistics are published here for Barranquitas Municipio, Puerto Rico yet. No county within 250 miles of Barranquitas Municipio has a CDC figure, so the only comparison is the national pool: 36.3% of reported tests at or above 4 pCi/L.
Which counties border Barranquitas Municipio?
Barranquitas Municipio borders 7 municipios: Comerío Municipio, Aibonito Municipio, Corozal Municipio, Naranjito Municipio, Orocovis Municipio, Coamo Municipio and Cidra Municipio.
Products
Barranquitas Municipio, Products
Testing a home in Barranquitas Municipio
No CDC figure names Barranquitas Municipio, and none within 250 miles of it: a test of this home is the only reading it will get. A short-term kit (2 to 90 days) is the quick first check for a home in Barranquitas Municipio; a long-term test tells the year-round average.
Test kits and monitors3
See every kit and monitor
Long-term kit
RL116 long-term radon test kit
- Lab fee extra
Method: Alpha track
In home: 90 days to 12 months
Monitor
View Plus radon and air quality monitor
- C-NRPP 2024/25: Approved
- Battery
- Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
- Screen, app
Method: Alpha spectrometry
- See every kit and monitor Test kits and monitors
Test kits and monitors: 1 of 3
Best radon monitors for Barranquitas Municipio homes, compared
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Barranquitas Municipio, Bordering municipios
Municipios bordering Barranquitas Municipio
Calculated by Radon411municipios bordering Barranquitas Municipio: 1 of 7
Barranquitas Municipio, Homes
Homes in Barranquitas Municipio
Of Barranquitas Municipio's 11,378 homes, 72% are detached houses, against 68% across Puerto Rico; 4% are in buildings of five or more homes. Half of its homes were built before 1985, close to Puerto Rico's 1979: 9% date from before 1960 and 17% from 2000 or later. 69% of occupied homes are lived in by their owner (Puerto Rico: 68%); in the rest a tenant can run a test, but a fix is the landlord's to make.
| Homes | Barranquitas Municipio | Puerto Rico |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 11,378 | 1,575,105 |
| Detached houses | 72% | 68% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 4% | 14% |
| Mobile homes | 0% | under 1% |
| Built before 1960 | 9% | 14% |
| Built since 2000 | 17% | 15% |
| Middle year built | 1985 | 1979 |
| Owner-occupied | 69% | 68% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.