Maple Heights, OH: what USGS's seismic model says

Maple Heights carries Seismic Design Category B under USGS's ASCE 7-16 model. Low seismic hazard. Code requires basic seismic detailing (bracing, connections) but no special structural system restrictions. That puts Maple Heights in the 50th percentile nationally for seismic hazard - higher than 50% of the 4,875 US cities USGS was checked against here.

Where Maple Heights sits in Ohio

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.078g, short-period spectral response 0.144g, 1-second spectral response 0.05g. Among 254 Ohio cities in this dataset, Maple Heights ranks 51 for seismic hazard, the 80th percentile within the state. About 23,081 people live in Maple Heights, Ohio.

Bracing and bolting: the actual cost

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

Insuring against this, not just retrofitting

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 Maple Heights address.

More on how this number was built

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