Ocean Beach, NY Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 3.1 miles east of Ocean Beach, NY
The coast 3.1 miles east of Ocean Beach, NY 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 "Ocean 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 Ocean Beach, NY into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 40.66°N, 73.10°W. Survey years: 2007-2009, method LRR, from USGS's New England / Mid-Atlantic 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
88 transects feed this segment's number; 78% of them individually measured retreat. The published margin on this reading runs ±0.2 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw -0.14 ft/yr reading would land it 577 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2010-1119. Mexico Beach, FL sits at national rank 1046 for growth (0.6 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 1012 miles from here. West Sayville, NY, 2.2 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, reading slight accretion (beach growing) at 0.66 ft/yr.
One address near Ocean Beach: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.