Milledgeville, GA: what USGS's seismic model says

Milledgeville carries Seismic Design Category C under USGS's ASCE 7-16 model. Moderate seismic hazard. Code adds irregular-building restrictions and requires bracing of some nonstructural components (e.g. tall shelving, water heaters) in addition to structural detailing. Rank it against the rest of the country and Milledgeville sits at the 72th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

How Milledgeville compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.126g, short-period spectral response 0.23g, 1-second spectral response 0.083g. Among 148 Georgia cities in this dataset, Milledgeville ranks 30 for seismic hazard, the 80th percentile within the state. About 16,664 people live in Milledgeville, Georgia.

What a retrofit costs in Milledgeville

Outside California, no state-level retrofit grant equivalent to Brace + Bolt could be found for Georgia. 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 Milledgeville address.

More on how this number was built

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