Short-term kit
RA100 short-term liquid scintillation radon test kit
- Lab fee extra
Method: Liquid scintillation
In home: 48 to 96 hours
Locations and reports
Radon Levels in Wichita County, Texas
EPA puts Wichita County in Zone 3, its lowest radon zone, and only 10 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
Nearest county
7.2%
Denton County, 106 miles
- Denton
- 7.2%
- Texas
- 10.4%
Share at 4+ pCi/L, 181 tests, 2007 to 2016
Ground above low
None
27.3 pts below Texas
- Wichita
- 0.0%
- Texas
- 27.3%
Share of land USGS rates moderate or high potential
Tests reported
14
Too few for a share
- Wichita
- 14
- Needed
- 30
2006 to 2015, laboratory
EPA radon zone
Zone 3
Lower potential
- 1
- 2
- Zone 3
1 highest, 3 lowest
EPA predicts under 2 pCi/L indoors
Read a result for Wichita 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
Wichita County, At a glance
Wichita County at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
EPA Zone 3: lower predicted potential
USGS geologic potential: Low across 100% of the county's area
Predicted: EPA Map of Radon Zones
Measured: tests reported to CDC
Radon tests reported for Wichita County, 2008 to 2017, laboratory
CDC holds 10 reported tests for Wichita County over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, with a median of 0.7 pCi/L: too few to describe a county (Radon411 reads a share from 30 tests up). Wichita County beside the counties around it is how this page reads it.
What these figures count
Only 10 tests were reported to CDC for Wichita 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).
Wichita County, Compared
Wichita County radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411CDC's largest figure for Wichita County rests on 14 tests over the 2006 to 2015 laboratory totals, 1 of them at or above 4 pCi/L, so each test moves its share by 7.1 points and no rank or comparison is drawn from it. Results reached as high as 4.0 pCi/L, with a middle value of 0.8 pCi/L.
The nearest counties with a figure are Denton County (106 miles away) at 7.2%, Tarrant County (117 miles away) at 10.6% and Collin County (135 miles away) at 7.7%. 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 Wichita County in Zone 3, its lowest label: a predicted county average under 2 pCi/L. USGS geology rates 100% of the county's land low radon potential.
Pooled shares: Radon411's sum of CDC's county counts for one period.
Wichita County, Geology
The ground under Wichita County
PredictedUSGS's geologic map puts all of Wichita County's mapped land in one class: low radon potential. All of it lies in the area the map calls Central Texas, to which USGS gives a radon index of 7, in the low band (5 to 8).
| Area | The rock, in USGS's words | Potential | Radon index | Share of land |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Texas | Cretaceous through Quaternary marine sandstone, shale, chalk, limestone, siltstone, clay, and lignite. | Low | 7 | 99.9% |
Names, descriptions and indexes: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Radon Potential Map (2025). Shares: Radon411, from the map cut to the boundary.
Wichita County beside the ground around it
Across Texas 0.5% of the land is rated high; none of Wichita County's is. None of the 6 counties that border it has any moderate-potential ground either.
The map rates the ground, not the air in any home.
Local help
Wichita County, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Wichita 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
Wichita County, Questions
Questions about radon in Wichita County
Are radon levels high in Wichita County?
Over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, 0.0% of the radon tests reported to CDC for Wichita County, Texas were at or above 4 pCi/L, and the median reported pre-mitigation result was 0.7 pCi/L. Of the 8 nearest counties with a figure, within 206 miles, the share of tests at or above 4 pCi/L runs from 7.2% to 71.4%.
Which counties border Wichita County?
Wichita County borders 6 counties: Archer County, TX, Cotton County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Wilbarger County, TX, Clay County, TX and Baylor County, TX.
Products
Wichita County, Products
Testing a home in Wichita County
No CDC figure names Wichita County; the nearest county with one, Denton County (106 miles away), reported 7.2% 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. Zone 3 is the lowest label, yet homes at or above 4 pCi/L occur in every zone: a short-term kit (2 to 90 days) is the quick first check in Wichita County.
Test kits and monitors3
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Long-term kit
RL116 long-term radon test kit
- Lab fee extra
Method: Alpha track
In home: 90 days to 12 months
Monitor
lüft plug-in radon and indoor air quality monitor
- C-NRPP 2024/25: Approved
- Plug-in
- Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
- App only
First reading: Within 90 minutes
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Test kits and monitors: 1 of 3
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Wichita County, Bordering counties
Counties bordering Wichita County
Calculated by Radon411- Radon levels in Wilbarger County, TXEPA zone 3
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 2.6 pCi/L · 1 test
- Radon levels in Archer County, TXEPA zone 3
No CDC figure for 2007 to 2016; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
- Radon levels in Cotton County, OKEPA zone 3
No CDC figure for 2007 to 2016; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
- Radon levels in Tillman County, OKEPA zone 3
No CDC figure for 2007 to 2016; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
- Radon levels in Clay County, TXEPA zone 3
No CDC figure for 2007 to 2016; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
- Radon levels in Baylor County, TXEPA zone 3
No CDC figure for 2007 to 2016; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
Wichita County, Cities and towns
Cities and towns in Wichita County
Wichita County's population has barely moved since 2020: 129,555 residents on July 1, 2025 against 129,611 then, by the Census Bureau's estimates. That works out to 206 people per square mile of land. Wichita Falls alone is home to 101,951 of them, 78.7% of the total. Together its 6 incorporated places hold 94.5% of those residents; the other 5.5% live outside any of them. CDC's 14 reported tests for 2006 to 2015 work out to 0.1 per 1,000 residents (2025 estimate), close to Texas' 0.1.
From Wichita Falls to Cashion Community, CDC publishes no figure by town: each reads Wichita County's.
| Place | Residents | Since 2020 | Share of residents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita Falls | 101,951 | −0.5% | 78.7% |
| Burkburnett | 11,057 | +0.8% | 8.5% |
| Iowa Park | 6,542 | Level | 5.0% |
| Electra | 2,238 | −2.4% | 1.7% |
| Pleasant Valley | 366 | +0.8% | 0.3% |
| Cashion Community | 301 | +5.2% | 0.2% |
6 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).
Wichita County, Homes
Homes in Wichita County
Of Wichita County's 55,664 homes, 72% are detached houses, against 65% across Texas; 15% are in buildings of five or more homes. The homes are older than Texas' as a whole: half were built before 1972 (1990 for Texas), and 32% date from before 1960. 61% 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 | Wichita County | Texas |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 55,664 | 11,890,808 |
| Detached houses | 72% | 65% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 15% | 21% |
| Mobile homes | 4% | 7% |
| Built before 1960 | 32% | 13% |
| Built since 2000 | 14% | 37% |
| Middle year built | 1972 | 1990 |
| Owner-occupied | 61% | 63% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.