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RADON MEASUREMENTS TABLE BY COUNTY AND ZIP CODE

The numbers of results at various radon levels, tabulated below, are from measurements in basements, up to a week in duration, while windows are kept closed.  Because there is less radon upstairs and less when windows are open, this table represents neither average resident exposures nor their lung cancer risks from radon.  

The data were obtained largely from companies that sell radon detectors to the public, and are only a fraction of all radon measurements that have been made in Wisconsin.  

For estimating the fraction of houses with average occupant exposures greater than 4 pCi/L for the radon averaged over a year on the main floor: divide the number in the “>10 pCi/L” column by the number in the “Total No.” (of measurements) column.  For more information on that relationship, click here. 

The data listed for Zip Codes crosses county borders.

Wisconsin Measurement Summary - 2006

Numbers of Measurements versus Radon:

County

Zip
Code

No. of Measurements

Ave.
pCi\L

High
pCi\L

Total
No.

# 4 - 10
pCi\L *

# >10
pCi\L

Kenosha County

53101 6 2 0 2.0 6.0
  53102 1 1 0 4.0 4.0
  53104 67 25 6 4.2 15.1
  53105 369 134 48 5.4 64.0
  53109 10 0 1 2.7 11.0
  53128 43 20 2 4.5 12.9
  53139 37 14 8 5.8 16.1
  53140 195 26 12 2.9 21.4
  53141 11 1 2 3.8 10.1
  53142 406 132 50 5.2 42.0
  53143 102 15 0 1.9 7.3
  53144 158 52 19 6.6 72.9
  53152 2 1 0 5.2 9.9
  53158 102 40 17 5.8 46.4
  53159 7 3 2 5.4 8.5
  53168 78 28 4 4.1 27.6
  53170 14 1 0 2.1 7.1
  53171 4 2 0 4.7 6.2
  53177 66 24 21 7.4 28.3
  53179 21 5 2 4.4 13.3
  53181 73 21 13 5.8 34.5
  53182 62 14 12 6.0 37.6
  53403 206 56 15 4.2 58.3
  53406 337 132 55 6.1 34.6

County Totals

 

2378

750

288

 

72.9

* pCi/L: picoCuries per Liter, a measure of radon concentration

 

 

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