New Albany's Seismic Design Category, explained

New Albany 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 New Albany in the 34th percentile nationally for seismic hazard - higher than 34% of the 4,875 US cities USGS was checked against here.

How New Albany compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.056g, short-period spectral response 0.114g, 1-second spectral response 0.058g. Among 254 Ohio cities in this dataset, New Albany ranks 229 for seismic hazard, the 10th percentile within the state. About 11,604 people live in New Albany, 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.

Earthquake insurance for a New Albany 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 New Albany address.

More on how this number was built

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