Cocoa, FL: what USGS's seismic model says

USGS's ASCE 7-16 seismic design model - the same standard building codes use - places Cocoa 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 Cocoa sits at the 9th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

Where Cocoa sits in Florida

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.027g, short-period spectral response 0.058g, 1-second spectral response 0.032g. Among 228 Florida cities in this dataset, Cocoa ranks 94 for seismic hazard, the 59th percentile within the state. About 19,909 people live in Cocoa, Florida.

Bracing and bolting: the actual cost

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 Cocoa 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 Cocoa address.

More on how this number was built

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