Monument, CO: what USGS's seismic model says

Monument 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. Rank it against the rest of the country and Monument sits at the 59th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

Monument by the numbers

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.119g, short-period spectral response 0.214g, 1-second spectral response 0.059g. Among 79 Colorado cities in this dataset, Monument ranks 32 for seismic hazard, the 60th percentile within the state. About 13,408 people live in Monument, Colorado.

Bracing and bolting: the actual cost

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

More on how this number was built

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