Fairview Park, OH: what USGS's seismic model says

Under the seismic model IBC and ASCE 7 use for new construction, Fairview Park is Category B. Low seismic hazard. Code requires basic seismic detailing (bracing, connections) but no special structural system restrictions. That puts Fairview Park in the 47th percentile nationally for seismic hazard - higher than 47% of the 4,875 US cities USGS was checked against here.

Fairview Park by the numbers

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.072g, short-period spectral response 0.135g, 1-second spectral response 0.05g. Among 254 Ohio cities in this dataset, Fairview Park ranks 89 for seismic hazard, the 65th percentile within the state. About 16,860 people live in Fairview Park, Ohio.

What a retrofit costs in Fairview Park

Outside California, no state-level retrofit grant equivalent to Brace + Bolt could be found for Ohio. 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 Fairview Park address.

More on how this number was built

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