Pineland, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 5.1 miles southwest of Pineland, FL
1.15 feet a year: that is the measured retreat rate USGS's transects show for the coast 5.1 miles southwest of Pineland, FL, averaged across the full historical record surveyed here. At that rate, the shoreline has lost roughly 11.5 feet over the last decade.
What this reading actually covers
Nothing here is parcel-level. USGS's raw transects run every few hundred feet along the shore; this page averages the ones nearest Pineland, FL into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 26.63°N, 82.22°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.
25 years at this rate
If 1.15 ft/yr holds for the next 25 years, the coast 5.1 miles southwest of Pineland, FL would retreat roughly 29 more feet, a projection, not a certainty: erosion rates shift with storms, sediment supply and any armoring built in the meantime.
Where this fits nationally
Averaging 20 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 ±0.8 ft/yr. Among the 1211 US coastal segments with a measurable trend, this one ranks 186 for erosion, 1 being the fastest-retreating coast in the dataset. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. For scale: Pastoria, VA, 857 miles away, ranks 37 of 1211 nationally for erosion, 6.78 ft/yr, 5.9x this stretch's rate. 2 miles away, Pineland, FL is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
One address near Pineland: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.