Short-term kitKidde
442020 short-term charcoal radon test kit
- Lab fee included
Method: Charcoal
In home: 3 days
Locations and reports
Radon Levels in Mayagüez Municipio, Puerto Rico
EPA has no radon zone on file for Mayagüez 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 Mayagüez 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
Mayagüez Municipio, At a glance
Mayagüez Municipio at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
No EPA zone on file
Radon411 has no EPA radon zone on file for Mayagüez 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 Mayagüez Municipio. Only a test tells you the level in a home.
Mayagüez Municipio, Compared
Mayagüez Municipio radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411CDC publishes no radon test figure for Mayagüez Municipio, and none for any other Puerto Rico county: its counts over the 2006 to 2015 laboratory totals cover 2,669 counties elsewhere in the country. 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
Mayagüez Municipio, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Mayagüez 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
Mayagüez Municipio, Questions
Questions about radon in Mayagüez Municipio
Are radon levels high in Mayagüez Municipio?
No CDC testing statistics are published here for Mayagüez Municipio, Puerto Rico yet. No county within 250 miles of Mayagüez 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 Mayagüez Municipio?
Mayagüez Municipio borders 6 municipios: Añasco Municipio, Hormigueros Municipio, San Germán Municipio, Las Marías Municipio, Cabo Rojo Municipio and Maricao Municipio.
Products
Mayagüez Municipio, Products
Testing a home in Mayagüez Municipio
No CDC figure names Mayagüez 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 Mayagüez 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
MonitorAEGTEST
HOUND-1085 palm-sized rechargeable radon detector
- C-NRPP 2024/25: Not included
- Battery
- Alarm
- Screen
Method: Semiconductor sensor
First reading: Within 6 hours
- See every kit and monitor Test kits and monitors
Test kits and monitors: 1 of 3
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Mayagüez Municipio, Bordering municipios
Municipios bordering Mayagüez Municipio
Calculated by Radon411municipios bordering Mayagüez Municipio: 1 of 6
Mayagüez Municipio, Homes
Homes in Mayagüez Municipio
Of Mayagüez Municipio's 41,057 homes, 57% are detached houses, against 68% across Puerto Rico; 24% are in buildings of five or more homes. The homes are older than Puerto Rico's as a whole: half were built before 1968 (1979 for Puerto Rico), and 31% date from before 1960. 51% 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 | Mayagüez Municipio | Puerto Rico |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 41,057 | 1,575,105 |
| Detached houses | 57% | 68% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 24% | 14% |
| Mobile homes | under 1% | under 1% |
| Built before 1960 | 31% | 14% |
| Built since 2000 | 9% | 15% |
| Middle year built | 1968 | 1979 |
| Owner-occupied | 51% | 68% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.