South Venice, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 3.5 miles southeast of South Venice, FL
Nothing alarming measured 3.5 miles southeast of South Venice, 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 "South Venice" means on this page
South Venice, FL is the nearest named place, 3.5 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: 27.00, -82.39. 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.
What backs this reading up
This reading comes from 124 individual transects averaged together, 87% of which measured erosion rather than growth. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.44 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, -0.09 ft/yr, would place it 656 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 1152 nationally for growth belongs to Santa Monica, CA, 2191 miles from this stretch, measured at 1.85 ft/yr. Englewood, FL, 2.1 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, itself no significant trend.
Not this whole stretch, just South Venice itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.