West Bend, WI: what USGS's seismic model says

West Bend 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 West Bend sits at the 17th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

How West Bend compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.032g, short-period spectral response 0.066g, 1-second spectral response 0.044g. Among 157 Wisconsin cities in this dataset, West Bend ranks 87 for seismic hazard, the 45th percentile within the state. About 32,149 people live in West Bend, 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.

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 West Bend address.

More on how this number was built

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