Anna Maria, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 0.7 miles east of Anna Maria, FL
Nothing alarming measured 0.7 miles east of Anna Maria, FL: whatever shift USGS's transects picked up here is too small to call reliably one way or the other, which this site reports as "no significant trend" rather than forcing a direction.
What "Anna Maria" means on this page
Anna Maria, FL is the nearest named place, 0.7 miles away, to a ~3.5-mile stretch of coast USGS has surveyed - the reading below covers that whole stretch, not a single property in it. Segment center: 27.53, -82.72. Survey years: 2001, method LRR, from USGS's Gulf of Mexico shoreline-change assessment. That's how current the data is here, real, but not a live feed, since a shoreline survey is a major undertaking, not an annual check-in.
What backs this reading up
This reading comes from 12 individual transects averaged together, 0% of which measured erosion rather than growth. USGS's confidence interval here is ±0.54 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, 0.26 ft/yr, would place it 947 of 1211 if ranked directly - but an unreliable rank isn't a useful one, which is exactly why "no significant trend" is the headline instead. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. For scale: Orick, CA, 2514 miles away, ranks 1153 of 1211 nationally for growth, 1.86 ft/yr. Anna Maria, FL, 0.7 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, itself no significant trend.
Not this whole stretch, just Anna Maria itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.