Slaton, TX: what USGS's seismic model says

Slaton 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. That puts Slaton in the 13th percentile nationally for seismic hazard - higher than 13% of the 4,875 US cities USGS was checked against here.

Where Slaton sits in Texas

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.035g, short-period spectral response 0.075g, 1-second spectral response 0.03g. Among 384 Texas cities in this dataset, Slaton ranks 216 for seismic hazard, the 44th percentile within the state. About 5,698 people live in Slaton, Texas.

What a retrofit costs in Slaton

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.

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 Slaton address.

More on how this number was built

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