Pineland, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 6.6 miles west of Pineland, FL
Good news, and an honest one: USGS's data can't distinguish this stretch, 6.6 miles west of Pineland, FL, from a flat trend. Whatever small movement it measured here is statistical noise, not a reliable direction, so none is claimed.
The grain of this number
USGS surveys the coast in transects spaced a few hundred feet apart; this page groups the nearest ones into a single ~3.5-mile reading for the stretch closest to Pineland, FL, rather than showing one arbitrary line. Segment center: 26.70, -82.25. The survey behind it runs to 2001, in USGS's Gulf of Mexico assessment, using the LRR method. Shoreline surveys aren't repeated every year, so this is the most recent long-term measurement USGS has published for this coast, not a live reading.
Where this fits nationally
93 transects feed this segment's number; 42% of them individually measured retreat. The published margin on this reading runs ±1.3 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, 0.56 ft/yr, would place it 1034 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 Open-File Report 2004-1089. Rank 1062 nationally for growth belongs to Pensacola Station, FL, 405 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.7 ft/yr. Pineland, FL, 2.9 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, itself no significant trend.
One address near Pineland: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.