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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

Walworth County

53105 369 134 48 5.4 64.0
  53114 25 8 10 8.0 19.0
  53115 243 96 32 5.7 52.3
  53119 120 39 43 10.8 57.4
  53120 133 42 25 8.1 55.1
  53121 287 96 44 5.7 43.9
  53125 53 20 2 4.2 20.8
  53128 43 20 2 4.5 12.9
  53147 191 70 25 5.6 37.0
  53148 8 3 1 5.7 18.4
  53149 440 166 63 5.5 35.2
  53156 25 7 1 3.9 17.7
  53157 13 7 1 5.6 10.3
  53176 3 1 2 23.3 31.9
  53184 20 7 5 6.6 17.9
  53190 105 25 12 4.9 43.9
  53191 53 16 10 5.4 24.8
  53505 2 0 0 1.3 1.7
  53525 20 6 2 4.6 11.8
  53538 97 28 3 3.5 27.6
  53585 19 6 2 7.1 59.1

County Totals

 

2269

797

333

 

64.0

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

 

 

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