Punta Rassa, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 3 miles southwest of Punta Rassa, FL
Nothing alarming measured 3 miles southwest of Punta Rassa, FL: 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 "Punta Rassa" means on this page
Punta Rassa, FL is the nearest named place, 3 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: 26.46, -82.02. 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.
How solid is this number
This reading comes from 12 individual transects averaged together, 33% of which measured erosion rather than growth. The published margin on this reading runs ±1.15 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, 0.33 ft/yr, would place it 971 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 997 nationally for growth belongs to Cleone, CA, 2556 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.4 ft/yr. 2 miles up the coast, Sanibel, FL shows 0.99 ft/yr of accreting.
Not this whole stretch, just Punta Rassa itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.