Does La Feria, TX need an earthquake retrofit?

USGS's ASCE 7-16 seismic design model - the same standard building codes use - places La Feria in Seismic Design Category A: Lowest seismic design category. Building code requires no seismic-specific detailing here beyond ordinary construction practice. Nationally, La Feria ranks above 0% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 0th percentile.

Where La Feria sits in Texas

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.019g, short-period spectral response 0.041g, 1-second spectral response 0.013g. Among 384 Texas cities in this dataset, La Feria ranks 374 for seismic hazard, the 3th percentile within the state. About 7,036 people live in La Feria, Texas.

Bracing and bolting: the actual cost

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 La Feria 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 La Feria address.

More on how this number was built

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