Pensacola Station, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 6.4 miles west of Pensacola Station, FL
6.4 miles west of Pensacola Station, FL: 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 "Pensacola Station" 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 Pensacola Station, FL. Centered near 30.32°N, 87.42°W. USGS's Gulf of Mexico assessment last surveyed this stretch through 2001, computing the rate with its LRR method. Other US regions were surveyed in different years, sometimes decades apart, so this page states its own rather than implying one national vintage.
Where this fits nationally
Averaging 24 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 92% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. USGS's confidence interval here is ±0.47 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw -0.16 ft/yr reading would land it 549 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 1035 nationally for growth belongs to Port St. Joe, FL, 126 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.56 ft/yr. 1.5 miles away, Pensacola Station, FL is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
Not this whole stretch, just Pensacola Station itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.