Short-term kit
PicoCan short-term charcoal canister radon test
- Lab fee included
Method: Charcoal
In home: 48 to 96 hours
Locations and reports
Radon Levels in Guánica Municipio, Puerto Rico
EPA has no radon zone on file for Guánica 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 Guánica 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
Guánica Municipio, At a glance
Guánica Municipio at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
No EPA zone on file
Radon411 has no EPA radon zone on file for Guánica 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 Guánica Municipio. Only a test tells you the level in a home.
Guánica Municipio, Compared
Guánica Municipio radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411Guánica Municipio is in a state CDC's county radon counts do not reach: no Puerto Rico county has a figure, while 2,669 counties elsewhere do over the 2006 to 2015 laboratory totals. 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
Guánica Municipio, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Guánica 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
Guánica Municipio, Questions
Questions about radon in Guánica Municipio
Are radon levels high in Guánica Municipio?
No CDC testing statistics are published here for Guánica Municipio, Puerto Rico yet. No county within 250 miles of Guánica 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 Guánica Municipio?
Guánica Municipio borders 3 municipios: Yauco Municipio, Lajas Municipio and Sabana Grande Municipio.
Products
Guánica Municipio, Products
Testing a home in Guánica Municipio
No CDC figure names Guánica 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 Guánica Municipio; a long-term test tells the year-round average.
Test kits and monitors3
See every kit and monitor
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
MonitorX-Sense
XR0A-SR battery digital radon detector with a screen
- C-NRPP 2024/25: Not included
- Battery
- Screen
Method: Alpha spectrometry
First reading: Within 24 hours
- See every kit and monitor Test kits and monitors
Test kits and monitors: 1 of 3
Explore
Guánica Municipio, Bordering municipios
Municipios bordering Guánica Municipio
Calculated by Radon411municipios bordering Guánica Municipio: 1 of 3
Guánica Municipio, Homes
Homes in Guánica Municipio
Guánica Municipio is a place of houses on their own lots: 83% of its 9,017 homes are detached single-family houses, against 68% across Puerto Rico. Half of its homes were built before 1981, close to Puerto Rico's 1979: 7% date from before 1960 and 10% from 2000 or later. 71% 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 | Guánica Municipio | Puerto Rico |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 9,017 | 1,575,105 |
| Detached houses | 83% | 68% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 5% | 14% |
| Mobile homes | under 1% | under 1% |
| Built before 1960 | 7% | 14% |
| Built since 2000 | 10% | 15% |
| Middle year built | 1981 | 1979 |
| Owner-occupied | 71% | 68% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.