Pascagoula, MS Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 9.4 miles south of Pascagoula, MS
9.4 miles south of Pascagoula, MS: USGS's transects didn't pick up a trend here that beats the survey's own uncertainty. That's the majority case nationally, and for this stretch specifically it means the coast is holding, not that the data failed to find anything.
What "Pascagoula" means on this page
This is a roughly 3.5-mile stretch of coast, not one address or parcel - USGS's own transects run every few hundred feet, but that's finer than any one property needs, so this page reports the stretch nearest Pascagoula, MS. Centered near 30.23°N, 88.60°W. The survey behind it runs to 2001, in USGS's Gulf of Mexico assessment, using the LRR 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.
Where this fits nationally
Averaging 105 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 80% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. Uncertainty on this specific number: 1.99 ft/yr either side. Taken at face value, this segment's raw -0.69 ft/yr reading would land it 243 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. Ocean City, WA sits at national rank 1192 for growth (4.1 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 2217 miles from here. Pascagoula, MS, 2 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, reading severe erosion at 12.75 ft/yr.
Not this whole stretch, just Pascagoula itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.