Ashwaubenon's Seismic Design Category, explained

USGS's ASCE 7-16 seismic design model - the same standard building codes use - places Ashwaubenon in Seismic Design Category A: Lowest seismic design category. Building code requires no seismic-specific detailing here beyond ordinary construction practice. Rank it against the rest of the country and Ashwaubenon sits at the 7th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

Ashwaubenon by the numbers

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.024g, short-period spectral response 0.051g, 1-second spectral response 0.036g. Among 157 Wisconsin cities in this dataset, Ashwaubenon ranks 128 for seismic hazard, the 19th percentile within the state. About 17,437 people live in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin.

Retrofit economics for Ashwaubenon

Outside California, no state-level retrofit grant equivalent to Brace + Bolt could be found for Wisconsin. A typical retrofit still runs $5,000-$10,000 nationally, about $7,000 for a common single-family job.

Earthquake insurance for a Ashwaubenon home

Outside California, earthquake coverage is typically sold as an endorsement added to a standard homeowners policy, not a separate product - worth asking about directly when getting a home-insurance quote for a Ashwaubenon address.

More on how this number was built

The methodology guide covers exactly how USGS's public design-maps API produced Ashwaubenon's numbers. The guide to what a Seismic Design Category actually means covers why a category is never a substitute for an engineer's assessment of one specific house.