Ormond Beach, FL: what USGS's seismic model says

USGS's ASCE 7-16 seismic design model - the same standard building codes use - places Ormond Beach in Seismic Design Category A: Lowest seismic design category. Building code requires no seismic-specific detailing here beyond ordinary construction practice. Rank it against the rest of the country and Ormond Beach sits at the 13th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

Ormond Beach by the numbers

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.035g, short-period spectral response 0.073g, 1-second spectral response 0.04g. Among 228 Florida cities in this dataset, Ormond Beach ranks 39 for seismic hazard, the 83th percentile within the state. About 44,596 people live in Ormond Beach, Florida.

What a retrofit costs in Ormond Beach

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 Ormond Beach address.

More on how this number was built

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