Does Cape Canaveral, FL need an earthquake retrofit?

USGS's ASCE 7-16 seismic design model - the same standard building codes use - places Cape Canaveral in Seismic Design Category A: Lowest seismic design category. Building code requires no seismic-specific detailing here beyond ordinary construction practice. Nationally, Cape Canaveral ranks above 8% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 8th percentile.

How Cape Canaveral compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.026g, short-period spectral response 0.056g, 1-second spectral response 0.032g. Among 228 Florida cities in this dataset, Cape Canaveral ranks 106 for seismic hazard, the 54th percentile within the state. About 10,014 people live in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Retrofit economics for Cape Canaveral

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

Earthquake insurance for a Cape Canaveral 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 Cape Canaveral address.

More on how this number was built

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