Does Wake Village, TX need an earthquake retrofit?

Under the seismic model IBC and ASCE 7 use for new construction, Wake Village is Category B. Low seismic hazard. Code requires basic seismic detailing (bracing, connections) but no special structural system restrictions. That puts Wake Village in the 36th percentile nationally for seismic hazard - higher than 36% of the 4,875 US cities USGS was checked against here.

How Wake Village compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.059g, short-period spectral response 0.125g, 1-second spectral response 0.077g. Among 384 Texas cities in this dataset, Wake Village ranks 43 for seismic hazard, the 89th percentile within the state. About 5,813 people live in Wake Village, Texas.

What a retrofit costs in Wake Village

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.

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 Wake Village address.

More on how this number was built

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