Eastpoint, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 5.8 miles southeast of Eastpoint, FL
Nothing alarming measured 5.8 miles southeast of Eastpoint, 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.
The grain of this number
Eastpoint, FL is the nearest named place, 5.8 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: 29.72, -84.77. The survey behind it runs to 2001, in USGS's Gulf of Mexico 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.
What backs this reading up
Averaging 8 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 100% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. The published margin on this reading runs ±0.35 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.11 ft/yr, would place it 628 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: Westport, WA, 2406 miles away, ranks 1128 of 1211 nationally for growth, 1.25 ft/yr. 1.7 miles away, Eastpoint, FL is the nearest other measured stretch: slight erosion at 0.75 ft/yr.
Eastpoint, FL on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.