Cayucos, CA Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 1.5 miles southeast of Cayucos, CA
Nothing alarming measured 1.5 miles southeast of Cayucos, CA: 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 this reading actually covers
Cayucos, CA is the nearest named place, 1.5 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: 35.42, -120.88. USGS's California assessment last surveyed this stretch through 1852-2016, computing the rate with its LRR method. Other US regions were surveyed in different years, sometimes decades apart, so this page states its own rather than implying one national vintage.
Where this fits nationally
24 transects feed this segment's number; 75% of them individually measured retreat. USGS's confidence interval here is ±0.24 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.1 ft/yr, would place it 649 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 National Shoreline Change data release (ScienceBase, DOI 10.5066/P94J0K7Z), Kratzmann 2024 / Data Report 1187. Rank 991 nationally for growth belongs to Shinnecock Hills, NY, 2625 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.39 ft/yr. 1.5 miles up the coast, Cayucos, CA shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Not this whole stretch, just Cayucos itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.