Pleasure Point, CA Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 0.7 miles northeast of Pleasure Point, CA
0.36 feet a year: that is the measured retreat rate USGS's transects show for the coast 0.7 miles northeast of Pleasure Point, CA, averaged across the full historical record surveyed here. At that rate, the shoreline has lost roughly 3.6 feet over the last decade.
What "Pleasure Point" means on this page
Nothing here is parcel-level. USGS's raw transects run every few hundred feet along the shore; this page averages the ones nearest Pleasure Point, CA into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 36.97°N, 121.96°W. USGS's California assessment last surveyed this stretch through 1852-2016, 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.
25 years at this rate
If 0.36 ft/yr holds for the next 25 years, the coast 0.7 miles northeast of Pleasure Point, CA would retreat roughly 9 more feet, a projection, not a certainty: erosion rates shift with storms, sediment supply and any armoring built in the meantime.
What backs this reading up
42 transects feed this segment's number; 98% of them individually measured retreat. The published margin on this reading runs ±0.23 ft/yr. Sorted from fastest erosion to fastest growth across all 1211 measured segments nationally, this one lands at 371. Source: USGS National Shoreline Change data release (ScienceBase, DOI 10.5066/P94J0K7Z), Kratzmann 2024 / Data Report 1187. For scale: Montauk, NY, 2667 miles away, ranks 523 of 1211 nationally for erosion, 0.18 ft/yr, 0.5x this stretch's rate. 1.7 miles up the coast, Seacliff, CA shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Pleasure Point, CA on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.