Ocoee's Seismic Design Category, explained

Ocoee carries Seismic Design Category A under USGS's ASCE 7-16 model. Lowest seismic design category. Building code requires no seismic-specific detailing here beyond ordinary construction practice. Nationally, Ocoee ranks above 11% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 11th percentile.

Ocoee by the numbers

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.03g, short-period spectral response 0.062g, 1-second spectral response 0.034g. Among 228 Florida cities in this dataset, Ocoee ranks 59 for seismic hazard, the 74th percentile within the state. About 51,269 people live in Ocoee, Florida.

Retrofit economics for Ocoee

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

More on how this number was built

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