CoastErosionCheck

Kilauea, HI Coastal Erosion Rate

Shoreline change 0.7 miles north of Kilauea, HI

No significant trend

Nothing alarming measured 0.7 miles north of Kilauea, HI: 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

Kilauea, HI is the nearest named place, 0.7 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: 22.22, -159.40. The survey behind it runs to 2007-2010, in USGS's Hawaii assessment, using the WLR 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.

How solid is this number

Averaging 121 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 69% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. The published margin on this reading runs ±0.88 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.14 ft/yr, would place it 580 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 2011-1009. Rank 1042 nationally for growth belongs to Inwood, NY, 5009 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.59 ft/yr. 0.4 miles away, Kilauea, HI is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.

Not this whole stretch, just Kilauea itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.