Does Santa Fe, TX need an earthquake retrofit?

Santa Fe 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. Rank it against the rest of the country and Santa Fe sits at the 11th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

Where Santa Fe sits in Texas

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.031g, short-period spectral response 0.065g, 1-second spectral response 0.038g. Among 384 Texas cities in this dataset, Santa Fe ranks 260 for seismic hazard, the 32th percentile within the state. About 13,131 people live in Santa Fe, Texas.

What a retrofit costs in Santa Fe

Outside California, no state-level retrofit grant equivalent to Brace + Bolt could be found for Texas. A typical retrofit still runs $5,000-$10,000 nationally, about $7,000 for a common single-family job.

Earthquake insurance for a Santa Fe home

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 Santa Fe address.

More on how this number was built

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