Pineland, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 5.5 miles west of Pineland, FL
The coast 5.5 miles west of Pineland, 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.
The grain of this number
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 26.66°N, 82.24°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.
Where this fits nationally
104 transects feed this segment's number; 39% of them individually measured retreat. USGS's confidence interval here is ±2.55 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw 0.31 ft/yr reading would land it 965 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. For scale: Channel Islands Beach, CA, 2252 miles away, ranks 1106 of 1211 nationally for growth, 0.99 ft/yr. Pineland, FL, 2 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, reading moderate erosion at 1.15 ft/yr.
Pineland, FL on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.