Indian Shores, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 0.6 miles east of Indian Shores, FL
The coast 0.6 miles east of Indian Shores, 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 Shores" 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 Shores, FL into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 27.85°N, 82.83°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 110 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 28% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. The published margin on this reading runs ±0.35 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw 0.27 ft/yr reading would land it 954 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: Longport, NJ, 922 miles away, ranks 1168 of 1211 nationally for growth, 2.33 ft/yr. 1.9 miles away, North Redington Beach, FL is the nearest other measured stretch: slight accretion (beach growing) at 0.84 ft/yr.
Not this whole stretch, just Indian Shores itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.