FAQ

Is radon really a problem in Columbus?

Direct answer

Yes. Every Central Ohio county sits in EPA Radon Zone 1, and Franklin County's 16,142 pre-mitigation tests from 2008 to 2017 had an estimated mean of 9.5 pCi/L, more than twice the EPA action level of 4.0.

More detail

The county figure comes from an American Lung Association analysis of CDC tracking data, and it agrees with much older state work: the 1988-89 EPA and Ohio residential survey found 64 percent of 170 Franklin County homes above 4 pCi/L on short screening tests. The cause is geology. The Ohio Shale, the largest uranium source in the state, runs in a north-south band under Franklin and Delaware counties, and glaciers smeared shale and limestone debris across the region. The health stakes come from the EPA: about 21,000 US lung cancer deaths a year are tied to radon, roughly 2,900 of them among people who never smoked. None of that predicts a single house. Averages describe the region, and only a test tells you what your own basement is doing. See why Ohio radon runs high.

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