East Quogue, NY Coastal Erosion Rate
Is the coast eroding 2.3 miles southeast of East Quogue, NY?
Nothing alarming measured 2.3 miles southeast of East Quogue, NY: 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 "East Quogue" means on this page
East Quogue, NY is the nearest named place, 2.3 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: 40.83, -72.54. The survey behind it runs to 2007-2009, in USGS's New England / Mid-Atlantic assessment, using the LRR method. Shoreline surveys aren't repeated every year, so this is the most recent long-term measurement USGS has published for this coast, not a live reading.
How solid is this number
Averaging 46 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 100% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.39 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, -0.25 ft/yr, would place it 438 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 2010-1119. Santiago, WA sits at national rank 1143 for growth (1.54 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 2557 miles from here. 1.4 miles up the coast, East Quogue, NY shows 0.32 ft/yr of eroding.
One address near East Quogue: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.