About this site

My name is Dan Swenson. I am a data nerd who is also a Minnesota workers' compensation attorney and a city council member. Public information should not be hard to use, so I build this network of sites as a hobby: I pull scattered public records out of PDFs and government databases and turn them into tools regular people can actually use. I do not use these sites to find legal clients, except for MN Comp Buddy which is my actual day job. The tools are free. The sites pay for their own hosting through clearly disclosed referral links and a few optional paid guides.

MN Radon Buddy puts the state's own numbers where a homeowner can actually use them: your county's test statistics from Minnesota Department of Health data, a plain should-I-test checkup that ends in a verdict instead of a pamphlet, and the full MDH list of licensed radon measurement and mitigation professionals, because since 2019 Minnesota licenses both and you should verify a license before you pay anyone.

Two commitments. First, lookups here are anonymous: the county checkup and the should-I-test tool never store your address or your answers, period. Second, the numbers come from named public sources, cited on the page with the date we last checked them. When our copy and MDH's page disagree, MDH's page controls, and we say so.

This site is an independent educational resource. It is not a government agency, not a health authority, and not a law firm, and nothing on it is medical or legal advice about your situation. If you ask for mitigation quotes, your request may be sent to licensed Minnesota radon mitigation professionals; participating professionals may pay to receive inquiries, and that never changes what the data shows you. Details in the privacy policy.

MN Radon Buddy is part of a small family of free Minnesota tools: Comp Buddy for work injuries, Hail Buddy for storm damage, Rebate Buddy for energy rebates, Property Tax Buddy for assessments, and Wage Buddy for paychecks. Same builder, same rules: public data, cited sources, nothing about you stored.