Bradenton Beach, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 0.9 miles southeast of Bradenton Beach, FL
Good news, and an honest one: USGS's data can't distinguish this stretch, 0.9 miles southeast of Bradenton Beach, FL, from a flat trend. Whatever small movement it measured here is statistical noise, not a reliable direction, so none is claimed.
What this reading actually covers
USGS surveys the coast in transects spaced a few hundred feet apart; this page groups the nearest ones into a single ~3.5-mile reading for the stretch closest to Bradenton Beach, FL, rather than showing one arbitrary line. Segment center: 27.46, -82.68. 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.
Where this fits nationally
Averaging 84 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 71% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. The published margin on this reading runs ±1.33 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.81 ft/yr, would place it 218 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. Seal Beach, CA sits at national rank 1053 for growth (0.63 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 2138 miles from here. 2 miles up the coast, Cortez, FL shows 1.02 ft/yr of accreting.
Bradenton Beach, FL on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.