Plymouth, MN: what USGS's seismic model says

Plymouth 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, Plymouth ranks above 6% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 6th percentile.

How Plymouth compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.023g, short-period spectral response 0.049g, 1-second spectral response 0.028g. Among 155 Minnesota cities in this dataset, Plymouth ranks 40 for seismic hazard, the 75th percentile within the state. About 78,551 people live in Plymouth, Minnesota.

Bracing and bolting: the actual cost

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

More on how this number was built

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