Jersey Village, TX: what USGS's seismic model says

Jersey Village 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, Jersey Village ranks above 12% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 12th percentile.

Where Jersey Village sits in Texas

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.033g, short-period spectral response 0.068g, 1-second spectral response 0.039g. Among 384 Texas cities in this dataset, Jersey Village ranks 230 for seismic hazard, the 40th percentile within the state. About 7,791 people live in Jersey Village, Texas.

What a retrofit costs in Jersey Village

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

Earthquake insurance for a Jersey Village home

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 Jersey Village address.

More on how this number was built

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