Private Well Water Testing in Ohio
County-by-county USGS area-risk estimates for private wells across Ohio โ arsenic exceedance probability and private-well population โ plus how to test your own well at a Ohio-certified laboratory.
Ohio private-well risk summary
Counties covered
88
Ohio counties with modeled risk data.
People on private wells
area estimate1,823,086
estimated across covered Ohio counties.
Average arsenic risk
area estimate9%
average modeled chance a well exceeds 10 ยตg/L arsenic across covered counties.
Ohio counties
- Stark County6% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)100,867 people on private wells
- Summit County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)86,690 people on private wells
- Trumbull County26% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)57,750 people on private wells
- Geauga County9% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)56,689 people on private wells
- Portage County11% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)52,171 people on private wells
- Licking County13% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)50,304 people on private wells
- Wayne County10% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)47,490 people on private wells
- Columbiana County5% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)42,884 people on private wells
- Richland County19% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)41,843 people on private wells
- Fairfield County14% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)40,917 people on private wells
- Clark County16% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)38,032 people on private wells
- Franklin County10% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)33,243 people on private wells
- Ashtabula County18% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)33,115 people on private wells
- Mahoning County11% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)31,330 people on private wells
- Allen County10% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)30,191 people on private wells
- Wood County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)29,581 people on private wells
- Montgomery County16% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)28,852 people on private wells
- Miami County27% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)28,195 people on private wells
- Greene County18% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)27,545 people on private wells
- Darke County56% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)26,995 people on private wells
- Tuscarawas County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)26,142 people on private wells
- Holmes County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)25,580 people on private wells
- Knox County7% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)25,483 people on private wells
- Lucas County5% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)24,858 people on private wells
- Morrow County16% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)24,854 people on private wells
- Pickaway County9% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)23,305 people on private wells
- Sandusky County13% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)22,364 people on private wells
- Seneca County11% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)21,965 people on private wells
- Medina County15% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)21,873 people on private wells
- Muskingum County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)21,801 people on private wells
- Union County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)21,748 people on private wells
- Logan County12% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)21,190 people on private wells
- Shelby County35% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)19,418 people on private wells
- Champaign County17% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)19,322 people on private wells
- Ross County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)19,236 people on private wells
- Marion County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)18,951 people on private wells
- Hancock County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)18,937 people on private wells
- Butler County6% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)18,727 people on private wells
- Putnam County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)17,622 people on private wells
- Ashland County13% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)17,566 people on private wells
- Madison County8% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)17,562 people on private wells
- Preble County22% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)17,431 people on private wells
- Fulton County18% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)16,486 people on private wells
- Mercer County12% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)16,476 people on private wells
- Auglaize County8% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)16,243 people on private wells
- Carroll County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)16,105 people on private wells
- Warren County9% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)15,819 people on private wells
- Huron County15% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)15,716 people on private wells
- Williams County16% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)15,716 people on private wells
- Coshocton County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)15,558 people on private wells
- Ottawa County9% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)14,976 people on private wells
- Hocking County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)14,706 people on private wells
- Jefferson County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)14,045 people on private wells
- Perry County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)13,690 people on private wells
- Lake County7% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)13,579 people on private wells
- Delaware County9% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)13,541 people on private wells
- Hardin County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)12,833 people on private wells
- Crawford County20% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)12,746 people on private wells
- Washington County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)12,250 people on private wells
- Cuyahoga County6% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)12,050 people on private wells
- Van Wert County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)11,649 people on private wells
- Lawrence County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)11,485 people on private wells
- Defiance County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)11,280 people on private wells
- Henry County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)11,163 people on private wells
- Paulding County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)10,878 people on private wells
- Clinton County22% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)10,815 people on private wells
- Highland County16% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)10,547 people on private wells
- Fayette County20% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)10,485 people on private wells
- Guernsey County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)10,192 people on private wells
- Wyandot County6% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)9,575 people on private wells
- Erie County7% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)8,335 people on private wells
- Belmont County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)8,227 people on private wells
- Vinton County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)7,596 people on private wells
- Lorain County9% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)7,429 people on private wells
- Pike County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)6,912 people on private wells
- Jackson County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)6,601 people on private wells
- Hamilton County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)5,883 people on private wells
- Morgan County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)5,799 people on private wells
- Athens County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)5,720 people on private wells
- Harrison County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)5,613 people on private wells
- Scioto County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)5,376 people on private wells
- Meigs County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)5,039 people on private wells
- Adams County4% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)4,974 people on private wells
- Monroe County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)4,641 people on private wells
- Clermont County7% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)3,794 people on private wells
- Gallia County3% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)3,662 people on private wells
- Noble County2% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)3,341 people on private wells
- Brown County8% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)2,921 people on private wells
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