Cherry Hills Village, CO: what USGS's seismic model says

USGS's ASCE 7-16 seismic design model - the same standard building codes use - places Cherry Hills Village in Seismic Design Category B: Low seismic hazard. Code requires basic seismic detailing (bracing, connections) but no special structural system restrictions. That puts Cherry Hills Village in the 59th percentile nationally for seismic hazard - higher than 59% of the 4,875 US cities USGS was checked against here.

Cherry Hills Village by the numbers

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.118g, short-period spectral response 0.213g, 1-second spectral response 0.058g. Among 79 Colorado cities in this dataset, Cherry Hills Village ranks 35 for seismic hazard, the 56th percentile within the state. About 6,349 people live in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado.

Retrofit economics for Cherry Hills Village

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 Cherry Hills Village address.

More on how this number was built

The methodology guide covers exactly how USGS's public design-maps API produced Cherry Hills Village'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.