Kimberly, WI: what USGS's seismic model says

USGS's ASCE 7-16 seismic design model - the same standard building codes use - places Kimberly in Seismic Design Category A: Lowest seismic design category. Building code requires no seismic-specific detailing here beyond ordinary construction practice. That puts Kimberly in the 8th percentile nationally for seismic hazard - higher than 8% of the 4,875 US cities USGS was checked against here.

Kimberly by the numbers

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.025g, short-period spectral response 0.053g, 1-second spectral response 0.038g. Among 157 Wisconsin cities in this dataset, Kimberly ranks 119 for seismic hazard, the 24th percentile within the state. About 7,529 people live in Kimberly, Wisconsin.

Retrofit economics for Kimberly

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.

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 Kimberly address.

More on how this number was built

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