Empire, LA Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 10.1 miles southwest of Empire, LA
The coast 10.1 miles southwest of Empire, LA shows no statistically significant trend either way. USGS's transects measured a rate here, but it's smaller than the survey's own margin of error for this stretch, so calling it "eroding" or "growing" would overstate what the data actually shows.
What "Empire" means on this page
Nothing here is parcel-level. USGS's raw transects run every few hundred feet along the shore; this page averages the ones nearest Empire, LA into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 29.32°N, 89.70°W. 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 82 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 96% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. The published margin on this reading runs ±1.86 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw -1.67 ft/yr reading would land it 150 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. For scale: Panacea, FL, 323 miles away, ranks 1107 of 1211 nationally for growth, 1 ft/yr. 3.3 miles up the coast, Buras, LA shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Not this whole stretch, just Empire itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.