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 Patillas Municipio, Puerto Rico
EPA has no radon zone on file for Patillas 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 Patillas 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
Patillas Municipio, At a glance
Patillas Municipio at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
No EPA zone on file
Radon411 has no EPA radon zone on file for Patillas 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 Patillas Municipio. Only a test tells you the level in a home.
Patillas Municipio, Compared
Patillas Municipio radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411CDC publishes no radon test figure for Patillas 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
Patillas Municipio, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Patillas 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
Patillas Municipio, Questions
Questions about radon in Patillas Municipio
Are radon levels high in Patillas Municipio?
No CDC testing statistics are published here for Patillas Municipio, Puerto Rico yet. No county within 250 miles of Patillas 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 Patillas Municipio?
Patillas Municipio borders 6 municipios: Arroyo Municipio, Maunabo Municipio, Yabucoa Municipio, San Lorenzo Municipio, Guayama Municipio and Cayey Municipio.
Products
Patillas Municipio, Products
Testing a home in Patillas Municipio
No CDC figure names Patillas 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 Patillas 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
Explore
Patillas Municipio, Bordering municipios
Municipios bordering Patillas Municipio
Calculated by Radon411municipios bordering Patillas Municipio: 1 of 6
Patillas Municipio, Homes
Homes in Patillas Municipio
Patillas Municipio is a place of houses on their own lots: 86% of its 8,067 homes are detached single-family houses, against 68% across Puerto Rico. Much of Patillas Municipio is recent building: 22% of its homes have gone up since 2000 and the middle year built is 1989, against 1979 for Puerto Rico. 70% 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 | Patillas Municipio | Puerto Rico |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 8,067 | 1,575,105 |
| Detached houses | 86% | 68% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 3% | 14% |
| Mobile homes | under 1% | under 1% |
| Built before 1960 | 2% | 14% |
| Built since 2000 | 22% | 15% |
| Middle year built | 1989 | 1979 |
| Owner-occupied | 70% | 68% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.