Does Trenton, OH need an earthquake retrofit?

Trenton carries Seismic Design Category B under USGS's ASCE 7-16 model. Low seismic hazard. Code requires basic seismic detailing (bracing, connections) but no special structural system restrictions. Nationally, Trenton ranks above 45% of the 4,875 cities in this dataset for seismic hazard - the 45th percentile.

Trenton by the numbers

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.07g, short-period spectral response 0.14g, 1-second spectral response 0.074g. Among 254 Ohio cities in this dataset, Trenton ranks 126 for seismic hazard, the 51th percentile within the state. About 14,131 people live in Trenton, Ohio.

Bracing and bolting: the actual cost

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 Trenton address.

More on how this number was built

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