Wauseon, OH: what USGS's seismic model says

Wauseon 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. Rank it against the rest of the country and Wauseon sits at the 46th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

How Wauseon compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.072g, short-period spectral response 0.136g, 1-second spectral response 0.056g. Among 254 Ohio cities in this dataset, Wauseon ranks 92 for seismic hazard, the 64th percentile within the state. About 7,455 people live in Wauseon, Ohio.

What a retrofit costs in Wauseon

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.

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 Wauseon address.

More on how this number was built

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