Freeport, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
Is the coast eroding 10.4 miles south of Freeport, FL?
Nothing alarming measured 10.4 miles south of Freeport, 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 "Freeport" means on this page
Freeport, FL is the nearest named place, 10.4 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: 30.35, -86.15. 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 98 individual transects averaged together, 78% of which measured erosion rather than growth. USGS's confidence interval here is ±0.29 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.07 ft/yr, would place it 685 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: Cinco Bayou, FL, 27 miles away, ranks 975 of 1211 nationally for growth, 0.34 ft/yr. 3.1 miles away, Laguna Beach, FL is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
Freeport, FL on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.