South Pasadena, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 0.5 miles west of South Pasadena, FL
Nothing alarming measured 0.5 miles west of South Pasadena, 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 this reading actually covers
South Pasadena, FL is the nearest named place, 0.5 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: 27.75, -82.75. 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 110 individual transects averaged together, 19% of which measured erosion rather than growth. Uncertainty on this specific number: 1.29 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, 0.66 ft/yr, would place it 1056 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 1058 nationally for growth belongs to Dunes City, OR, 2540 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.67 ft/yr. 2.6 miles up the coast, Treasure Island, FL shows the same lack of a significant trend.
One address near South Pasadena: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.