Indian Rocks Beach, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 0.6 miles northeast of Indian Rocks Beach, FL
The coast 0.6 miles northeast of Indian Rocks Beach, FL 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 "Indian Rocks Beach" 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 Indian Rocks Beach, FL into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 27.90°N, 82.84°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
121 transects feed this segment's number; 0% of them individually measured retreat. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.36 ft/yr either side. Taken at face value, this segment's raw 0.19 ft/yr reading would land it 917 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. Rank 1059 nationally for growth belongs to Surfside Beach, TX, 760 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.69 ft/yr. 2.5 miles away, Belleair Beach, FL is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
One address near Indian Rocks Beach: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.