Lamesa's Seismic Design Category, explained

Lamesa 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, Lamesa ranks above 14% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 14th percentile.

How Lamesa compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.041g, short-period spectral response 0.085g, 1-second spectral response 0.029g. Among 384 Texas cities in this dataset, Lamesa ranks 209 for seismic hazard, the 46th percentile within the state. About 8,108 people live in Lamesa, Texas.

Retrofit economics for Lamesa

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 Lamesa 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 Lamesa address.

More on how this number was built

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