Sarita, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 25.9 miles east of Sarita, TX
Nothing alarming measured 25.9 miles east of Sarita, TX: 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 this reading actually covers
Sarita, TX is the nearest named place, 25.9 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: 27.10, -97.40. USGS's Gulf of Mexico assessment last surveyed this stretch through 2001, 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.
Where this fits nationally
Averaging 107 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 0% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. USGS's confidence interval here is ±1.76 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, 0.62 ft/yr, would place it 1049 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. For scale: Grand Isle, LA, 476 miles away, ranks 1197 of 1211 nationally for growth, 4.73 ft/yr. Sarita, TX, 3.4 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, itself no significant trend.
Not this whole stretch, just Sarita itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.