Beaver Falls, PA: what USGS's seismic model says

Beaver Falls carries Seismic Design Category B under USGS's ASCE 7-16 model. Low seismic hazard. Code requires basic seismic detailing (bracing, connections) but no special structural system restrictions. Rank it against the rest of the country and Beaver Falls sits at the 27th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

Where Beaver Falls sits in Pennsylvania

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.046g, short-period spectral response 0.095g, 1-second spectral response 0.045g. Among 193 Pennsylvania cities in this dataset, Beaver Falls ranks 115 for seismic hazard, the 41th percentile within the state. About 8,757 people live in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

Retrofit economics for Beaver Falls

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

What this means for insurance

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 Beaver Falls address.

More on how this number was built

The methodology guide covers exactly how USGS's public design-maps API produced Beaver Falls'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.