Provincetown, MA Coastal Erosion Rate
Is the coast eroding 1.7 miles northeast of Provincetown, MA?
Nothing alarming measured 1.7 miles northeast of Provincetown, MA: 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 "Provincetown" means on this page
Provincetown, MA is the nearest named place, 1.7 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: 42.07, -70.15. USGS's New England / Mid-Atlantic assessment last surveyed this stretch through 2007-2009, 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.
What backs this reading up
90 transects feed this segment's number; 39% of them individually measured retreat. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.57 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, 0.04 ft/yr, would place it 807 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 2010-1119. Cleone, CA sits at national rank 997 for growth (0.4 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 2763 miles from here. 2.7 miles away, Provincetown, MA is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
Provincetown, MA on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.