Is your home at risk? These areas in Utah have the highest radon levels
Jan 3, 2023, 11:52 AM
(Utah Radon Services)
January is Radon Awareness month. Because of Utah’s building structures and geology, one in three Utah homes has dangerously-high levels of radon gas.
A Utah woman warned people of the danger of radon after being diagnosed with stage 4 non-smoking lung cancer.
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Radon gas is odorless, tasteless, and invisible which makes it impossible to detect without a test. It is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S.
Utah Radon Services offers free home tests and has compiled data from the homes it has tested across Utah to create these charts of homes with high radon levels.
“Countless never-smokers and smokers have died from radon-induced lung cancer. The greatest tragedy is that radon exposure can be limited, and these deaths could have been prevented,” Dr. Wallace Akerly, Director of the Lung Cancer Disease Center of Excellence at the Huntsman Cancer Institute said.
According to the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Utah despite having the lowest smoking rate in the nation.
A release from Utah Radon Services states, “With this information, our goal is to encourage all Utahns to test their homes for radon with our free test kits so they can avoid preventable diseases and death.”