Hialeah Gardens's Seismic Design Category, explained

Hialeah Gardens carries Seismic Design Category A under USGS's ASCE 7-16 model. Lowest seismic design category. Building code requires no seismic-specific detailing here beyond ordinary construction practice. Nationally, Hialeah Gardens ranks above 2% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 2th percentile.

How Hialeah Gardens compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.02g, short-period spectral response 0.042g, 1-second spectral response 0.021g. Among 228 Florida cities in this dataset, Hialeah Gardens ranks 193 for seismic hazard, the 15th percentile within the state. About 23,328 people live in Hialeah Gardens, Florida.

Retrofit economics for Hialeah Gardens

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.

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 Hialeah Gardens address.

More on how this number was built

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