New Carlisle's Seismic Design Category, explained

New Carlisle 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. Nationally, New Carlisle ranks above 54% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 54th percentile.

How New Carlisle compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.092g, short-period spectral response 0.167g, 1-second spectral response 0.07g. Among 254 Ohio cities in this dataset, New Carlisle ranks 13 for seismic hazard, the 95th percentile within the state. About 5,511 people live in New Carlisle, Ohio.

Retrofit economics for New Carlisle

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 Carlisle 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 Carlisle address.

More on how this number was built

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