Did you know your state gives away free stuff?
Free radon test kits
Most states run a radon program funded by federal and state grants, and many of them mail residents a free short-term test kit, usually in January during Radon Action Month, sometimes year-round. Supplies are limited and windows open and close quickly. This page tracks every state; each row links to the state’s record, its counties, and its official source.
- Open19 states
- Closed for the season1 state
- Cap reached2 states
- No data19 states
- No free program9 states
Status by state
Updated Sep 19, 2026- Alaska: Closed for the season
- Alabama: Cap reached
- Arkansas: No data
- Arizona: No data
- California: No data
- Colorado: No data
- Connecticut: Open
- Delaware: Free kits (if you qualify)
- Florida: Open
- Georgia: No data
- Hawaii: No data
- Iowa: Low-cost kits
- Idaho: Free kits (library lending)
- Illinois: No statewide free kit
- Indiana: No data
- Kansas: No data
- Kentucky: No data
- Louisiana: No data
- Massachusetts: No free kit
- Maryland: No data
- Maine: No free kit listed
- Michigan: Through local health departments
- Minnesota: No free program
- Missouri: Open
- Mississippi: No data
- Montana: Subsidized kits
- North Carolina: No free kit right now
- North Dakota: Cap reached
- Nebraska: No free program
- New Hampshire: No data
- New Jersey: No statewide free kit
- New Mexico: Open
- Nevada: Open
- New York: No data
- Ohio: No data
- Oklahoma: No data
- Oregon: Free kits (targeted areas)
- Pennsylvania: Free kits (specific situations)
- Rhode Island: No free program
- South Carolina: Open
- South Dakota: Open
- Tennessee: Open
- Texas: Free kits (if you qualify)
- Utah: No data
- Virginia: Discounted kits
- Vermont: Kits by order
- Washington: Open
- Wisconsin: No free program
- West Virginia: No data
- Wyoming: No data
- Open
- Closed
- Cap reached
- No data
- No free program
Master Gardener program
Cooperative Extension at each state's land-grant university trains residents in horticulture and asks for volunteer hours in return — answering the public's gardening questions, staffing help desks, and working demonstration gardens. The training is publicly funded, though most counties charge a course fee towards materials. Both that fee and the application window are set county by county, so this page tracks what each state's own Extension publishes, and links you to the page that names your county's office.
- Program runs44 states
- Applications closed2 states
Status by state
Updated Sep 20, 2026- Alaska: Program runs
- Alabama: Program runs
- Arkansas: Program runs
- Arizona: Program runs
- California: Program runs
- Colorado: Applications closed
- Connecticut: Program runs
- Delaware: Program runs
- Florida: Program runs
- Georgia: Program runs
- Hawaii: Program runs
- Iowa: Program runs
- Idaho: Program runs
- Illinois: Program runs
- Indiana: Program runs
- Kansas: Program runs
- Kentucky: Program runs
- Louisiana: Program runs
- Maryland: Program runs
- Maine: Program runs
- Minnesota: Program runs
- Missouri: Program runs
- Mississippi: Program runs
- Montana: Program runs
- North Carolina: Program runs
- North Dakota: Program runs
- Nebraska: Program runs
- New Hampshire: Program runs
- New Jersey: Program runs
- New Mexico: Program runs
- Nevada: Program runs
- New York: Program runs
- Ohio: Program runs
- Oregon: Program runs
- Pennsylvania: Program runs
- Rhode Island: Program runs
- South Carolina: Program runs
- South Dakota: Program runs
- Tennessee: Program runs
- Texas: Program runs
- Utah: Program runs
- Virginia: Program runs
- Vermont: Program runs
- Washington: Applications closed
- Wisconsin: Program runs
- Wyoming: Program runs
- Program runs
- Applications closed