Kennedale's Seismic Design Category, explained

Kennedale 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. Nationally, Kennedale ranks above 22% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 22th percentile.

How Kennedale compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.042g, short-period spectral response 0.088g, 1-second spectral response 0.05g. Among 384 Texas cities in this dataset, Kennedale ranks 152 for seismic hazard, the 61th percentile within the state. About 10,771 people live in Kennedale, Texas.

What a retrofit costs in Kennedale

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.

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 Kennedale address.

More on how this number was built

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