Cañon City, CO: what USGS's seismic model says

Cañon City 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. That puts Cañon City in the 61th percentile nationally for seismic hazard - higher than 61% of the 4,875 US cities USGS was checked against here.

How Cañon City compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.145g, short-period spectral response 0.258g, 1-second spectral response 0.07g. Among 79 Colorado cities in this dataset, Cañon City ranks 16 for seismic hazard, the 81th percentile within the state. About 17,193 people live in Cañon City, Colorado.

What a retrofit costs in Cañon City

Outside California, no state-level retrofit grant equivalent to Brace + Bolt could be found for Colorado. 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 Cañon City address.

More on how this number was built

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