Does Leander, TX need an earthquake retrofit?

Leander 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, Leander ranks above 8% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 8th percentile.

How Leander compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.025g, short-period spectral response 0.053g, 1-second spectral response 0.033g. Among 384 Texas cities in this dataset, Leander ranks 316 for seismic hazard, the 18th percentile within the state. About 87,511 people live in Leander, 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 Leander 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 Leander address.

More on how this number was built

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