Private Well Water Testing in Minnesota
County-by-county USGS area-risk estimates for private wells across Minnesota โ arsenic exceedance probability and private-well population โ plus how to test your own well at a Minnesota-certified laboratory.
Minnesota private-well risk summary
Counties covered
87
Minnesota counties with modeled risk data.
People on private wells
area estimate1,108,859
estimated across covered Minnesota counties.
Average arsenic risk
area estimate12%
average modeled chance a well exceeds 10 ยตg/L arsenic across covered counties.
Minnesota counties
- Stearns County8% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)51,671 people on private wells
- Anoka County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)51,597 people on private wells
- St. Louis County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)51,273 people on private wells
- Hennepin County6% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)42,279 people on private wells
- Wright County7% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)38,489 people on private wells
- Washington County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)37,791 people on private wells
- Crow Wing County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)32,675 people on private wells
- Otter Tail County14% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)32,305 people on private wells
- Sherburne County5% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)30,355 people on private wells
- Itasca County6% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)25,660 people on private wells
- Beltrami County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)25,209 people on private wells
- Dakota County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)24,677 people on private wells
- Chisago County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)24,151 people on private wells
- Cass County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)23,819 people on private wells
- Olmsted County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)22,731 people on private wells
- Isanti County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)21,441 people on private wells
- Morrison County5% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)20,765 people on private wells
- Pine County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)20,543 people on private wells
- Becker County8% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)20,529 people on private wells
- Scott County9% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)19,532 people on private wells
- Douglas County12% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)18,951 people on private wells
- Carlton County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)17,435 people on private wells
- Rice County13% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)17,203 people on private wells
- Carver County22% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)16,356 people on private wells
- Todd County6% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)16,221 people on private wells
- Winona County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)16,003 people on private wells
- Hubbard County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)15,838 people on private wells
- Goodhue County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)15,594 people on private wells
- Mille Lacs County5% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)14,998 people on private wells
- Kandiyohi County37% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)14,923 people on private wells
- Blue Earth County32% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)13,757 people on private wells
- Ramsey County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)13,611 people on private wells
- Benton County8% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)13,018 people on private wells
- Aitkin County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)12,813 people on private wells
- Kanabec County5% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)11,761 people on private wells
- Meeker County42% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)11,598 people on private wells
- McLeod County28% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)11,201 people on private wells
- Le Sueur County26% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)9,880 people on private wells
- Fillmore County5% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)9,619 people on private wells
- Mower County6% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)9,606 people on private wells
- Clay County18% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)9,104 people on private wells
- Freeborn County9% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)8,873 people on private wells
- Roseau County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)8,612 people on private wells
- Wabasha County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)8,555 people on private wells
- Steele County14% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)7,754 people on private wells
- Polk County34% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)7,198 people on private wells
- Houston County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)7,130 people on private wells
- Nicollet County20% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)7,094 people on private wells
- Wadena County5% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)7,031 people on private wells
- Sibley County29% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)6,696 people on private wells
- Dodge County8% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)6,584 people on private wells
- Pope County8% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)6,330 people on private wells
- Clearwater County7% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)6,239 people on private wells
- Waseca County16% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)5,743 people on private wells
- Renville County33% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)5,473 people on private wells
- Brown County30% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)5,382 people on private wells
- Martin County43% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)5,332 people on private wells
- Redwood County39% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)4,888 people on private wells
- Lyon County12% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)4,842 people on private wells
- Pennington County6% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)4,496 people on private wells
- Murray County17% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)4,472 people on private wells
- Faribault County24% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)4,386 people on private wells
- Nobles County7% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)4,116 people on private wells
- Cottonwood County28% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)4,007 people on private wells
- Lake County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)3,933 people on private wells
- Swift County21% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)3,907 people on private wells
- Jackson County41% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)3,795 people on private wells
- Yellow Medicine County19% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)3,787 people on private wells
- Chippewa County7% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)3,581 people on private wells
- Lac qui Parle County19% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)3,318 people on private wells
- Marshall County8% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)3,278 people on private wells
- Koochiching County5% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)3,273 people on private wells
- Mahnomen County9% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)3,003 people on private wells
- Watonwan County41% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)2,995 people on private wells
- Lake of the Woods County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)2,873 people on private wells
- Norman County10% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)2,871 people on private wells
- Stevens County5% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)2,596 people on private wells
- Cook County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)2,591 people on private wells
- Grant County15% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)2,537 people on private wells
- Wilkin County11% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)2,160 people on private wells
- Red Lake County6% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)1,955 people on private wells
- Pipestone County5% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)1,700 people on private wells
- Rock County22% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)1,519 people on private wells
- Big Stone County24% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)1,512 people on private wells
- Lincoln County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)1,308 people on private wells
- Traverse County9% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)1,255 people on private wells
- Kittson County8% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)897 people on private wells
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