Radon Testing in Birmingham, AL — Independent & Lab-Read

The Process

Your 48 Hours

Two short visits and one quiet, uninterrupted test in between.

Coverage

Where We Test in the Birmingham Metro

This is the real list — no invented neighborhoods, just the counties and cities we actually cover.

What Jefferson County Actually Reads

What the Numbers Actually Say About Jefferson County

The Alabama Department of Public Health names Jefferson and Shelby among Alabama's 15 highest-potential radon counties — that's a list ADPH publishes on its Radon in Alabama page. On the EPA's older national zone map (from 1993), both counties are Zone 2 (moderate), not the top tier. But ADPH's list is built on actual measured data from Alabama tests, and it puts Jefferson and Shelby on the same shortlist as the 13 counties EPA classifies as Zone 1.

The CDC's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network pulled Alabama lab-test data from 2008 through 2017. For Jefferson County: average 1.9 pCi/L, median 1.2, and 10.7% of roughly 630 reported tests came back at or above the EPA action level of 4.0. The highest single reading was 24.6 — more than six times the action level. Shelby County looked similar: average 1.9, and 11.3% of ~283 tests at or above 4.0.

About one in nine tests in Jefferson and Shelby came back at levels the EPA and Surgeon General say to fix. Most Birmingham homes read low; a real, measurable share don't. That share is exactly why ADPH keeps both counties on the highest-potential list, and it's why "every home should be tested" is the state's actual position — not just ours.

Where We Test

Neighborhoods and Municipalities We Cover

Coverage inside the Birmingham metro includes the city of Birmingham itself, the "over-the-mountain" ring — Homewood, Mountain Brook, Vestavia Hills — and the outer suburbs: Hoover, Trussville, Leeds, Alabaster, Pelham, Helena, Chelsea, and Moody. Within the city, we test in every community: Southside, Five Points South, Highland Park, Forest Park, Avondale, Woodlawn, Crestwood, Roebuck, Huffman, Ensley, Wylam, West End, North Birmingham, Norwood, Smithfield, Fountain Heights, and the newer communities inside the Cahaba and Airport Hills district lines.

Outside the city limits, we cover Bessemer, Fairfield, Hueytown, Pleasant Grove, Center Point, Fultondale, Gardendale, Pinson, Clay, Irondale, and the eastern corridor from Trussville to Leeds to Moody. In Shelby County that includes Calera, Chelsea, Columbiana, Harpersville, Montevallo, Westover, and Wilsonville. In St. Clair County, Moody, Odenville, Springville, and Pell City.

What Test Day Actually Looks Like

What Actually Happens the Day We Deploy

The setup visit takes about fifteen minutes at the house. We show up at the scheduled window, walk the lowest living level, pick a spot that meets the standard (about 20 inches off the floor, away from outside walls, windows, and HVAC vents), and start the sealed monitor. We note the address, room, height, and start time on the deployment sheet. From that point on, the house needs to stay closed up — windows and outside doors closed except for normal in-and-out, HVAC on its regular thermostat — for the full 48 hours.

Nothing about the two days changes your routine. People come and go, kids go to school, dinner gets cooked. The monitor just keeps recording hour by hour. After 48 hours we come back, pick up the sealed unit, and pull the data. The independent lab reads it and sends the certified report — usually about an hour after we grab the monitor — to whoever you tell us to.

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