Hope Mills, NC: what USGS's seismic model says

USGS's ASCE 7-16 seismic design model - the same standard building codes use - places Hope Mills in Seismic Design Category B: 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 Hope Mills sits at the 51th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

Hope Mills by the numbers

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.082g, short-period spectral response 0.165g, 1-second spectral response 0.074g. Among 147 North Carolina cities in this dataset, Hope Mills ranks 70 for seismic hazard, the 53th percentile within the state. About 18,102 people live in Hope Mills, North Carolina.

What a retrofit costs in Hope Mills

Outside California, no state-level retrofit grant equivalent to Brace + Bolt could be found for North Carolina. 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 Hope Mills address.

More on how this number was built

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