San Buenaventura (Ventura), CA Coastal Erosion Rate
Is the coast eroding 6 miles northwest of San Buenaventura (Ventura), CA?
6 miles northwest of San Buenaventura (Ventura), CA: USGS's transects didn't pick up a trend here that beats the survey's own uncertainty. That's the majority case nationally, and for this stretch specifically it means the coast is holding, not that the data failed to find anything.
What this reading actually covers
This is a roughly 3.5-mile stretch of coast, not one address or parcel - USGS's own transects run every few hundred feet, but that's finer than any one property needs, so this page reports the stretch nearest San Buenaventura (Ventura), CA. Centered near 34.30°N, 119.35°W. Survey years: 1852-2016, method LRR, from USGS's California shoreline-change assessment. That's how current the data is here, real, but not a live feed, since a shoreline survey is a major undertaking, not an annual check-in.
What backs this reading up
Averaging 124 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 55% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.12 ft/yr either side. Taken at face value, this segment's raw -0.04 ft/yr reading would land it 738 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS National Shoreline Change data release (ScienceBase, DOI 10.5066/P94J0K7Z), Kratzmann 2024 / Data Report 1187. Bertsch-Oceanview, CA sits at national rank 1001 for growth (0.41 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 576 miles from here. 2.4 miles away, Oak View, CA is the nearest other measured stretch: slight erosion at 0.15 ft/yr.
San Buenaventura (Ventura), CA on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.