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 Yauco Municipio, Puerto Rico
EPA has no radon zone on file for Yauco 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 Yauco 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
Yauco Municipio, At a glance
Yauco Municipio at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
No EPA zone on file
Radon411 has no EPA radon zone on file for Yauco 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 Yauco Municipio. Only a test tells you the level in a home.
Yauco Municipio, Compared
Yauco Municipio radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411CDC publishes no radon test figure for Yauco 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
Yauco Municipio, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Yauco 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
Yauco Municipio, Questions
Questions about radon in Yauco Municipio
Are radon levels high in Yauco Municipio?
No CDC testing statistics are published here for Yauco Municipio, Puerto Rico yet. No county within 250 miles of Yauco 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 Yauco Municipio?
Yauco Municipio borders 6 municipios: Guayanilla Municipio, Sabana Grande Municipio, Guánica Municipio, Maricao Municipio, Adjuntas Municipio and Lares Municipio.
Products
Yauco Municipio, Products
Testing a home in Yauco Municipio
No CDC figure names Yauco 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 Yauco 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
MonitorPYZYCKYH
RD17 plug-in radon detector with a rechargeable battery and color screen
- 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
Yauco Municipio, Bordering municipios
Municipios bordering Yauco Municipio
Calculated by Radon411municipios bordering Yauco Municipio: 1 of 6
Yauco Municipio, Homes
Homes in Yauco Municipio
Yauco Municipio is a place of houses on their own lots: 80% of its 17,199 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: 8% date from before 1960 and 9% from 2000 or later. 74% 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 | Yauco Municipio | Puerto Rico |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 17,199 | 1,575,105 |
| Detached houses | 80% | 68% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 4% | 14% |
| Mobile homes | under 1% | under 1% |
| Built before 1960 | 8% | 14% |
| Built since 2000 | 9% | 15% |
| Middle year built | 1981 | 1979 |
| Owner-occupied | 74% | 68% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.