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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

Sheboygan County

53001 15 3 3 8.3 35.0
  53004 32 2 1 2.6 13.5
  53010 43 13 2 3.8 13.0
  53011 9 1 1 3.6 12.5
  53013 22 6 0 2.9 7.3
  53015 12 3 2 9.7 43.9
  53020 29 8 6 5.3 15.8
  53021 41 13 2 3.9 12.4
  53023 15 5 2 4.7 18.5
  53026 1 0 0 2.0 2.0
  53031 1 1 0 6.9 6.9
  53040 55 14 5 3.9 22.5
  53044 28 7 2 3.6 18.3
  53061 22 7 1 3.2 10.5
  53070 24 5 2 3.9 16.6
  53073 93 31 12 5.9 77.6
  53075 34 17 6 6.7 18.4
  53079 16 4 0 3.4 7.4
  53081 275 38 2 2.3 33.4
  53082 3 1 0 4.3 5.6
  53083 192 42 8 3.1 18.5
  53085 62 23 1 3.8 10.2
  53093 10 3 1 4.2 13.6

County Totals

 

1034

247

59

 

77.6

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

 

 

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