East Atlantic Beach, NY Coastal Erosion Rate
Is the coast eroding 0.8 miles east of East Atlantic Beach, NY?
Unusual good news for this stretch: the shoreline 0.8 miles east of East Atlantic Beach, NY has grown by a measured 2.39 feet a year on average, per USGS's long-term transect data for this section. At that rate, the shoreline has gained roughly 23.9 feet over the last decade.
What "East Atlantic Beach" means on this page
East Atlantic Beach, NY is the nearest named place, 0.8 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: 40.59, -73.70. USGS's New England / Mid-Atlantic assessment last surveyed this stretch through 2007-2009, 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.
What 2.39 ft/yr means over time
Holding the 2.39 ft/yr accretion rate 0.8 miles east of East Atlantic Beach, NY for 25 years would add roughly 60 feet of shoreline, again assuming nothing about the local sediment supply changes.
Where this fits nationally
77 transects feed this segment's number; 0% of them individually measured retreat. The published margin on this reading runs ±1.43 ft/yr. Sorted from fastest erosion to fastest growth across all 1211 measured segments nationally, this one lands at 1172. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2010-1119. Siesta Key, FL sits at national rank 1178 for growth (2.82 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 1049 miles from here. 2.4 miles up the coast, Atlantic Beach, NY shows 2.35 ft/yr of accreting.
Not this whole stretch, just East Atlantic Beach itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.