Kelowna and the Okanagan Radon Map: Every Home Health Canada Tested, and What It Read

344 homes across Kelowna and the Okanagan were long-term tested for radon in the two federal surveys. Every one is a dot on this map, coloured by what it read, with the number of tested homes printed beside every district figure.

The Map

Every dot is one tested house. Zoom in for street names. Shaded districts had no home tested in either survey. This page covers postal districts V1. The whole province is on the British Columbia map.

under 100100 to 147148 to 199200 and aboveno homes tested

344 measurements shown. Dot positions inside a district are illustrative, not addresses. The survey records which district a home was in, never where it stood. Tap any dot for its reading, or any district for its count and median. Rural districts here cover thousands of square kilometres, so a dot in one says very little about any particular corner of it.

Built from Health Canada's published measurements under the Open Government Licence. We do not sell radon testing or mitigation.

What the Numbers Say

14%

of tested Kelowna and the Okanagan homes at or above Canada's 200 Bq/m³ action level

median reading, Bq/m³

1,410

highest single reading, in V1H

Kelowna and the Okanagan sits 18th of the 33 places mapped with a hundred or more tested homes, at 13.7% at or above the action level, between Halifax at 35.2% and Toronto and the GTA at 2.2%. All on the same two surveys and the same method. The spread between places is real, and the spread between houses on one street is bigger still.

The Number Changes Depending on Whose Limit You Use

Canada acts at 200 Bq/m³. The United States EPA acts at about 148. The World Health Organization sets a reference level of 100. Applied to the same 344 homes:

14%

at or above Canada's 200

21%

at or above the US EPA's 148

39%

at or above the WHO's 100

Same houses, same measurements. Why the three numbers differ, and which one to use.

By Postal District, with the Sample Sizes Shown

Read the count column before the median column. A district resting on four houses is a hint, not a verdict, and those rows are greyed. The land area column matters too: a district covering ten thousand square kilometres is an average across a region, not a neighbourhood.

District	Land km²	Homes tested	Median	Highest	At or over 200
V1N	1,820	12	223	784	7
V1H	1,040	8	219	1410	4
V1X	219	22	146	418	4
V1B	388	16	120	284	3
V1L	921	12	117	357	2
V1A	2,165	11	106	393	3
V1V	60	19	97	373	4
V1W	76	22	92	262	3
V1T	26	10	85	371	1
V1Z	818	13	83	589	2
V1P	1,083	13	77	295	1
V1R	811	17	72	722	4
V1J	181	51	66	240	4
V1C	2,488	21	64	231	1
V1G	9,955	45	64	255	2
V1Y	18	23	52	188	0
V1E	456	22	48	263	2
V1K	6,216	5	48	93	0
V1M	66	2	23	25	0

16 districts have ten or more tested homes, which is where these figures start to mean something. The districts with no measurement at all are V1S.

What Actually Settles It

Nothing on this page describes your house. Radon varies enormously between homes on the same street, because it depends on how each building sits on and draws air from the ground beneath it. The highest reading here is 1,410 Bq/m³ and it sits in a district whose median is far below it. A long-term test in your own home is the only measurement that tells you anything about your home.

Also: every C-NRPP certified radon company here, the other city and province maps, and what radon actually is.

Sources and method. Radon measurements: Health Canada, Radon and Thoron Data From Canadian Homes pooled with the Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes 2009-2011, both under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Boundaries: Statistics Canada 2021 cartographic forward sortation area file, same licence. Percentages are calculated from the individual measurements shown, not quoted from a summary. Land areas are from the Statistics Canada boundary file.