Lantana's Seismic Design Category, explained

Lantana 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, Lantana ranks above 2% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 2th percentile.

Lantana by the numbers

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.021g, short-period spectral response 0.044g, 1-second spectral response 0.023g. Among 228 Florida cities in this dataset, Lantana ranks 173 for seismic hazard, the 24th percentile within the state. About 12,545 people live in Lantana, Florida.

What a retrofit costs in Lantana

Outside California, no state-level retrofit grant equivalent to Brace + Bolt could be found for Florida. A typical retrofit still runs $5,000-$10,000 nationally, about $7,000 for a common single-family job.

Earthquake insurance for a Lantana 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 Lantana address.

More on how this number was built

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