Fort Myers Beach, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
Is the coast eroding 1.7 miles southeast of Fort Myers Beach, FL?
Nothing alarming measured 1.7 miles southeast of Fort Myers Beach, 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.
What this reading actually covers
Fort Myers Beach, FL is the nearest named place, 1.7 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: 26.41, -81.89. 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.
Where this fits nationally
This reading comes from 50 individual transects averaged together, 0% of which measured erosion rather than growth. Uncertainty on this specific number: 2.7 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, 2.13 ft/yr, would place it 1160 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. North Redington Beach, FL sits at national rank 1084 for growth (0.84 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 113 miles from here. Fort Myers Beach, FL, 2.2 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, reading slight erosion at 0.23 ft/yr.
One address near Fort Myers Beach: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.