Pescadero, CA Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 7.1 miles north of Pescadero, CA
Nothing alarming measured 7.1 miles north of Pescadero, CA: whatever shift USGS's transects picked up here is too small to call reliably one way or the other, which this site reports as "no significant trend" rather than forcing a direction.
What this reading actually covers
Pescadero, CA is the nearest named place, 7.1 miles away, to a ~3.5-mile stretch of coast USGS has surveyed - the reading below covers that whole stretch, not a single property in it. Segment center: 37.35, -122.40. Survey years: 1852-2016, method LRR, from USGS's California 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.
What backs this reading up
85 transects feed this segment's number; 13% of them individually measured retreat. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.29 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, 0.22 ft/yr, would place it 936 of 1211 if ranked directly - but an unreliable rank isn't a useful one, which is exactly why "no significant trend" is the headline instead. Source: USGS National Shoreline Change data release (ScienceBase, DOI 10.5066/P94J0K7Z), Kratzmann 2024 / Data Report 1187. Rank 1120 nationally for growth belongs to Rockaway Beach, OR, 579 miles from this stretch, measured at 1.15 ft/yr. 3.2 miles up the coast, Pescadero, CA shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Not this whole stretch, just Pescadero itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.