Kaukauna, WI: what USGS's seismic model says

USGS's ASCE 7-16 seismic design model - the same standard building codes use - places Kaukauna in Seismic Design Category A: Lowest seismic design category. Building code requires no seismic-specific detailing here beyond ordinary construction practice. Rank it against the rest of the country and Kaukauna sits at the 8th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

Kaukauna by the numbers

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.025g, short-period spectral response 0.053g, 1-second spectral response 0.037g. Among 157 Wisconsin cities in this dataset, Kaukauna ranks 114 for seismic hazard, the 28th percentile within the state. About 18,363 people live in Kaukauna, Wisconsin.

Retrofit economics for Kaukauna

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

More on how this number was built

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