Short-term kit
RA400 short-term liquid scintillation radon test kit, lab fee included
- Lab fee included
Method: Liquid scintillation
In home: 48 to 96 hours
Locations and reports
Radon Levels in Hale County, Texas
EPA puts Hale County in Zone 2, its middle radon zone, and only 11 radon tests from it are on file with CDC (2008 to 2017, laboratory totals). Homes with elevated levels occur in all three zones, so only a test measures yours.
Data checked By Radon411Methodology
Highest bordering
57.8%
Lubbock County
- Lubbock
- 57.8%
1 of 7 neighbours have 30+ tests, 2007 to 2016
Nearest county
57.8%
Lubbock County, 32 miles
- Lubbock
- 57.8%
- Texas
- 10.4%
Share at 4+ pCi/L, 128 tests, 2007 to 2016
Ground above low
100.0%
72.7 pts above Texas
- Hale
- 100.0%
- Texas
- 27.3%
Share of land USGS rates moderate or high potential
Tests reported
12
Too few for a share
- Hale
- 12
- Needed
- 30
2007 to 2016, laboratory
EPA radon zone
Zone 2
Moderate potential
- 1
- Zone 2
- 3
1 highest, 3 lowest
EPA predicts 2 to 4 pCi/L indoors
Read a result for Hale County
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
Hale County, At a glance
Hale County at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
EPA Zone 2: moderate predicted potential
Hale County is a
USGS geologic potential: Moderate across 100% of the county's area
Predicted: EPA Map of Radon Zones
Measured: tests reported to CDC
Radon tests reported for Hale County, 2008 to 2017, laboratory
CDC holds 11 reported tests for Hale County over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, with a median of 7.8 pCi/L: too few to describe a county (Radon411 reads a share from 30 tests up). Hale County beside the counties around it is how this page reads it.
What these figures count
Only 11 tests were reported to CDC for Hale County over 2008 to 2017 (laboratory totals), and tests are often run on homes being sold or already suspected of a problem: so few describe neither the county nor this house.
Measured: CDC tracking data. Figure above: 2008 to 2017, laboratory. Measured data period: 2005 to 2017 (every CDC figure on file).
Hale County, Compared
Hale County radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411CDC's largest figure for Hale County rests on 12 tests over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, 10 of them at or above 4 pCi/L, so each test moves its share by 8.3 points and no rank or comparison is drawn from it. Results reached as high as 24.0 pCi/L, with a middle value of 7.8 pCi/L.
Lubbock County, the one bordering county with a figure over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, reported 57.8% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L. Farther out, Randall County (62 miles away) at 71.4%, Potter County (92 miles away) at 20.0% and Midland County (152 miles away) at 1.0% have figures too. Pooled across 140 Texas counties, 10.4% of reported tests reached that level; across every county in the country with a figure, 35.8%.
Statewide for the same period, Randall County reported the highest share (71.4%) and Nueces County the lowest (0.0%). EPA's 1993 map puts Hale County in Zone 2, its middle label: a predicted county average between 2 and 4 pCi/L. USGS geology rates 100% of the county's land moderate radon potential.
Pooled shares: Radon411's sum of CDC's county counts for one period.
Hale County, Geology
The ground under Hale County
PredictedUSGS's geologic map puts all of Hale County's mapped land in one class: moderate radon potential. All of it lies in the area the map calls Northern High Plains and Plateaus, to which USGS gives a radon index of 10, in the moderate band (9 to 11).
| Area | The rock, in USGS's words | Potential | Radon index | Share of land |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern High Plains and Plateaus | Tertiary sandstone, siltstone, shale. | Moderate | 10 | 100% |
Names, descriptions and indexes: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Radon Potential Map (2025). Shares: Radon411, from the map cut to the boundary.
Hale County beside the ground around it
Across Texas 0.5% of the land is rated high; none of Hale County's is. Of the 7 counties that border it, none has as large a share of moderate-potential ground; Castro County comes nearest at 100%.
The map rates the ground, not the air in any home.
Local help
Hale County, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Hale County
- Texas Radon GroupTexas Radon Group, run by Texas Tech University, does not license radon professionals and offers free or discounted test kits, and answers questions about testing and mitigation in Texas.Visit the program’s page(opens in a new tab)
- Free and low-cost kitsThe program says:
The Texas Radon Group offers free radon test kits for Texas individuals who qualify.
- Compare kits
- Professionals in Texas7 professionals are listed in Texas.
What Texas's program says
- Licensing of radon professionals
There are no radon certification requirements for the State of Texas at this time, but the National Radon Proficiency Program lists radon testers and mitigators within Texas that have passed a rigorous national certification program.
What it means
Hale County, Questions
Questions about radon in Hale County
Are radon levels high in Hale County?
Over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, 81.8% of the radon tests reported to CDC for Hale County, Texas were at or above 4 pCi/L, and the median reported pre-mitigation result was 7.8 pCi/L. Lubbock County, the one bordering county with a figure over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, reported 57.8% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L.
Which counties border Hale County?
Hale County borders 7 counties: Floyd County, Lamb County, Lubbock County, Swisher County, Castro County, Hockley County and Crosby County.
Products
Hale County, Products
Testing a home in Hale County
No CDC figure names Hale County; the nearest county with one, Lubbock County (32 miles away), reported 57.8% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, the only reading nearby until a test of this home. In Zone 2 a short-term kit (2 to 90 days) is the quick first check in Hale County; a long-term test tells the year-round average.
Test kits and monitors3
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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
Monitor
Wave Radon battery smart radon monitor
- C-NRPP 2024/25: Not included
- Battery
- Bluetooth
- App only
Method: Alpha spectrometry
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Hale County, Bordering counties
Counties bordering Hale County
Calculated by Radon411- Radon levels in Swisher CountyEPA zone 2
100.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 7.8 pCi/L · 6 tests
- Radon levels in Lubbock CountyEPA zone 2
57.8%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 4.8 pCi/L · 128 tests
- Radon levels in Castro CountyEPA zone 2
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 3.6 pCi/L · 1 test
- Radon levels in Hockley CountyEPA zone 2
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 2.7 pCi/L · 1 test
- Radon levels in Floyd CountyEPA zone 2
No CDC figure for 2007 to 2016; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
- Radon levels in Lamb CountyEPA zone 2
No CDC figure for 2007 to 2016; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
- Radon levels in Crosby CountyEPA zone 2
No CDC figure for 2007 to 2016; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
Hale County, Cities and towns
Cities and towns in Hale County
About 31,819 people live in Hale County by the Census Bureau's estimate for July 1, 2025, 639 fewer than in 2020 (−2.0%). That works out to 32 people per square mile of land. Plainview alone is home to 19,314 of them, 60.7% of the total. Testing is reported here more often than across the state: CDC's 12 reported tests for 2007 to 2016 come to 0.4 for every 1,000 residents (2025 estimate), against 0.1 for Texas.
From Plainview to Edmonson, CDC publishes no figure by town: each reads Hale County's.
| Place | Residents | Since 2020 | Share of residents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plainview | 19,314 | −3.7% | 60.7% |
| Abernathyextends beyond Hale County | 2,826 | −1.4% | Counted whole |
| Hale Center | 1,979 | −3.7% | 6.2% |
| Petersburg | 962 | −4.4% | 3.0% |
| Edmonson | 87 | −1.1% | 0.3% |
5 incorporated places, as listed in the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 place reference files. Residents: U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for July 1, 2025 (Vintage 2025). A place that extends beyond Hale County is counted whole, so it has no share.
Hale County, Homes
Homes in Hale County
Hale County is a place of houses on their own lots: 76% of its 13,399 homes are detached single-family houses, against 65% across Texas. The homes are older than Texas' as a whole: half were built before 1968 (1990 for Texas), and 31% date from before 1960. 60% of occupied homes are lived in by their owner (Texas: 63%); in the rest a tenant can run a test, but a fix is the landlord's to make.
| Homes | Hale County | Texas |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 13,399 | 11,890,808 |
| Detached houses | 76% | 65% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 8% | 21% |
| Mobile homes | 8% | 7% |
| Built before 1960 | 31% | 13% |
| Built since 2000 | 8% | 37% |
| Middle year built | 1968 | 1990 |
| Owner-occupied | 60% | 63% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.