Redington Beach, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 1 miles east of Redington Beach, FL
The coast 1 miles east of Redington Beach, 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.
What "Redington Beach" 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 Redington Beach, FL into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 27.81°N, 82.80°W. 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
104 transects feed this segment's number; 90% of them individually measured retreat. The published margin on this reading runs ±1.22 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw -0.36 ft/yr reading would land it 367 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: Apalachicola, FL, 186 miles away, ranks 1163 of 1211 nationally for growth, 2.21 ft/yr. North Redington Beach, FL, 2 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, reading slight accretion (beach growing) at 0.84 ft/yr.
Not this whole stretch, just Redington Beach itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.