North Las Vegas, NV: what USGS's seismic model says

North Las Vegas carries Seismic Design Category D under USGS's ASCE 7-16 model. High seismic hazard - this is the category most of coastal California, the Pacific Northwest, and other active fault regions fall into. Code mandates significant seismic detailing and restricts irregular structural configurations. This is the category the Brace + Bolt scope (cripple-wall bracing, foundation bolting) is built for. Nationally, North Las Vegas ranks above 84% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 84th percentile.

How North Las Vegas compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.28g, short-period spectral response 0.625g, 1-second spectral response 0.205g. Among 12 Nevada cities in this dataset, North Las Vegas ranks 6 for seismic hazard, the 55th percentile within the state. About 294,034 people live in North Las Vegas, Nevada.

Retrofit economics for North Las Vegas

Outside California, no state-level retrofit grant equivalent to Brace + Bolt could be found for Nevada. 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 North Las Vegas address.

More on how this number was built

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