Laguna Heights, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 7.7 miles southeast of Laguna Heights, TX
Nothing alarming measured 7.7 miles southeast of Laguna Heights, TX: 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
Laguna Heights, TX is the nearest named place, 7.7 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: 26.00, -97.17. 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 100 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 0% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. USGS's confidence interval here is ±1.79 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, 1.29 ft/yr, would place it 1134 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. Rank 1021 nationally for growth belongs to Costa Mesa, CA, 1348 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.48 ft/yr. 2.4 miles up the coast, Laguna Heights, TX shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Laguna Heights, TX on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.