Menominee, MI: what USGS's seismic model says

Under the seismic model IBC and ASCE 7 use for new construction, Menominee is Category A. Lowest seismic design category. Building code requires no seismic-specific detailing here beyond ordinary construction practice. Nationally, Menominee ranks above 3% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 3th percentile.

How Menominee compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.022g, short-period spectral response 0.046g, 1-second spectral response 0.032g. Among 153 Michigan cities in this dataset, Menominee ranks 145 for seismic hazard, the 5th percentile within the state. About 8,231 people live in Menominee, Michigan.

Bracing and bolting: the actual cost

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

What this means for insurance

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 Menominee address.

More on how this number was built

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