Sheboygan Falls, WI: what USGS's seismic model says

USGS's ASCE 7-16 seismic design model - the same standard building codes use - places Sheboygan Falls in Seismic Design Category A: Lowest seismic design category. Building code requires no seismic-specific detailing here beyond ordinary construction practice. Nationally, Sheboygan Falls ranks above 10% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 10th percentile.

How Sheboygan Falls compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.029g, short-period spectral response 0.06g, 1-second spectral response 0.041g. Among 157 Wisconsin cities in this dataset, Sheboygan Falls ranks 100 for seismic hazard, the 37th percentile within the state. About 8,656 people live in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin.

Bracing and bolting: the actual cost

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

Earthquake insurance for a Sheboygan Falls 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 Sheboygan Falls address.

More on how this number was built

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