Osprey, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 1.3 miles northwest of Osprey, FL
The coast 1.3 miles northwest of Osprey, 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 "Osprey" 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 Osprey, FL into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 27.20°N, 82.49°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 121 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 100% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. USGS's confidence interval here is ±0.43 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw -0.39 ft/yr reading would land it 357 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: Camp Pendleton South, CA, 2120 miles away, ranks 1005 of 1211 nationally for growth, 0.44 ft/yr. 2.4 miles up the coast, Osprey, FL shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Osprey, FL on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.