Fort Hunter Liggett, CA Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 20.3 miles west of Fort Hunter Liggett, CA
Nothing alarming measured 20.3 miles west of Fort Hunter Liggett, 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
Fort Hunter Liggett, CA is the nearest named place, 20.3 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: 36.05, -121.59. 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.
What backs this reading up
15 transects feed this segment's number; 67% of them individually measured retreat. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.23 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, -0.17 ft/yr, would place it 547 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 1100 nationally for growth belongs to Pacific Beach, WA, 782 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.95 ft/yr. Fort Hunter Liggett, CA, 6.6 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, reading slight erosion at 0.52 ft/yr.
Not this whole stretch, just Fort Hunter Liggett itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.