Huntington, WV: what USGS's seismic model says

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

Where Huntington sits in West Virginia

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.078g, short-period spectral response 0.153g, 1-second spectral response 0.068g. Among 26 West Virginia cities in this dataset, Huntington ranks 8 for seismic hazard, the 72th percentile within the state. About 44,942 people live in Huntington, West Virginia.

What a retrofit costs in Huntington

Outside California, no state-level retrofit grant equivalent to Brace + Bolt could be found for West Virginia. 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 Huntington address.

More on how this number was built

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