Maalaea, HI Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 1.9 miles southeast of Maalaea, HI
Nothing alarming measured 1.9 miles southeast of Maalaea, 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 "Maalaea" means on this page
Maalaea, HI is the nearest named place, 1.9 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: 20.78, -156.47. USGS's Hawaii assessment last surveyed this stretch through 2007-2010, computing the rate with its WLR method. Other US regions were surveyed in different years, sometimes decades apart, so this page states its own rather than implying one national vintage.
How solid is this number
121 transects feed this segment's number; 74% of them individually measured retreat. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.26 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, -0.12 ft/yr, would place it 619 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 1058 nationally for growth belongs to Dunes City, OR, 2444 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.67 ft/yr. 2.1 miles up the coast, Maalaea, HI shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Maalaea, HI on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.