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Radon Levels in Yabucoa Municipio, Puerto Rico

EPA has no radon zone on file for Yabucoa Municipio, and the only way to know your home's level is to test it.

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Read a result for Yabucoa Municipio

Starts at EPA's action level

4.0pCi/L

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

  1. Under 20 to 1.9 pCi/L
  2. 2 to 4consider a fix
  3. 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

Yabucoa Municipio, At a glance

Yabucoa Municipio at a glance

Predicted: EPA radon zone

No EPA zone on file

Radon411 has no EPA radon zone on file for Yabucoa 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 Yabucoa Municipio. Only a test tells you the level in a home.

How to read these figures

Yabucoa Municipio, Compared

Yabucoa Municipio radon figures, compared

Calculated by Radon411

Yabucoa 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.

The United States and the counties around Yabucoa Municipio, 2006 to 2015, laboratory
AreaTestsAt or above 4 pCi/LMedian
United States, pooled2,669 counties, pooled1,805,52836.3%Not pooled

Pooled shares: Radon411's sum of CDC's county counts for one period.

What it means

Yabucoa Municipio, Questions

Questions about radon in Yabucoa Municipio

Are radon levels high in Yabucoa Municipio?

No CDC testing statistics are published here for Yabucoa Municipio, Puerto Rico yet. No county within 250 miles of Yabucoa 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 Yabucoa Municipio?

Yabucoa Municipio borders 5 municipios: Maunabo Municipio, Patillas Municipio, San Lorenzo Municipio, Humacao Municipio and Las Piedras Municipio.

Products

Yabucoa Municipio, Products

Testing a home in Yabucoa Municipio

No CDC figure names Yabucoa 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 Yabucoa Municipio; a long-term test tells the year-round average.

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Yabucoa Municipio, Bordering municipios

Municipios bordering Yabucoa Municipio

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Yabucoa Municipio, Homes

Homes in Yabucoa Municipio

Yabucoa Municipio is a place of houses on their own lots: 86% of its 14,165 homes are detached single-family houses, against 68% across Puerto Rico. Half of its homes were built before 1984, close to Puerto Rico's 1979: 7% date from before 1960 and 18% 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 in Yabucoa Municipio, Puerto Rico, 2019 to 2023
HomesYabucoa MunicipioPuerto Rico
Housing units14,1651,575,105
Detached houses86%68%
In buildings of 5 or more3%14%
Mobile homesunder 1%under 1%
Built before 19607%14%
Built since 200018%15%
Middle year built19841979
Owner-occupied71%68%

Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.