Sarita, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 26.2 miles east of Sarita, TX
26.2 miles east of Sarita, TX: 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.
The grain of this number
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 Sarita, TX. Centered near 27.26°N, 97.37°W. Survey years: 2001, method LRR, from USGS's Gulf of Mexico 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.
How solid is this number
Averaging 48 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 0% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. The published margin on this reading runs ±0.98 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw 0.47 ft/yr reading would land it 1016 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. San Clemente, CA sits at national rank 980 for growth (0.34 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 1270 miles from here. 1.8 miles away, Sarita, TX is the nearest other measured stretch: slight accretion (beach growing) at 0.58 ft/yr.
Not this whole stretch, just Sarita itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.