Pepper Pike, OH: what USGS's seismic model says

Under the seismic model IBC and ASCE 7 use for new construction, Pepper Pike is Category B. Low seismic hazard. Code requires basic seismic detailing (bracing, connections) but no special structural system restrictions. Rank it against the rest of the country and Pepper Pike sits at the 51th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

How Pepper Pike compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.082g, short-period spectral response 0.15g, 1-second spectral response 0.05g. Among 254 Ohio cities in this dataset, Pepper Pike ranks 39 for seismic hazard, the 85th percentile within the state. About 6,881 people live in Pepper Pike, Ohio.

What a retrofit costs in Pepper Pike

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.

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 Pepper Pike address.

More on how this number was built

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