Winona Lake's Seismic Design Category, explained

Winona Lake 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 Winona Lake sits at the 34th percentile for seismic hazard among 4,875 US cities.

How Winona Lake compares

The raw figures: peak ground acceleration 0.057g, short-period spectral response 0.115g, 1-second spectral response 0.064g. Among 126 Indiana cities in this dataset, Winona Lake ranks 108 for seismic hazard, the 14th percentile within the state. About 5,107 people live in Winona Lake, Indiana.

What a retrofit costs in Winona Lake

Outside California, no state-level retrofit grant equivalent to Brace + Bolt could be found for Indiana. A typical retrofit still runs $5,000-$10,000 nationally, about $7,000 for a common single-family job.

Earthquake insurance for a Winona Lake home

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 Winona Lake address.

More on how this number was built

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