Connersville's Seismic Design Category, explained

Connersville 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 Connersville sits at the 50th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

Where Connersville sits in Indiana

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.078g, short-period spectral response 0.155g, 1-second spectral response 0.079g. Among 126 Indiana cities in this dataset, Connersville ranks 58 for seismic hazard, the 54th percentile within the state. About 13,282 people live in Connersville, Indiana.

Retrofit economics for Connersville

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

Insuring against this, not just retrofitting

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 Connersville address.

More on how this number was built

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