Pensacola Station, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
Is the coast eroding 1.3 miles east of Pensacola Station, FL?
The coast 1.3 miles east of Pensacola Station, 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 "Pensacola Station" 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 Pensacola Station, FL into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 30.34°N, 87.30°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.
How solid is this number
Averaging 36 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 6% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. USGS's confidence interval here is ±2.34 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw 0.96 ft/yr reading would land it 1101 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. Rank 1126 nationally for growth belongs to Bayshore, OR, 2217 miles from this stretch, measured at 1.23 ft/yr. Warrington, FL, 2.5 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, reading slight erosion at 0.55 ft/yr.
Not this whole stretch, just Pensacola Station itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.