Surfside Beach, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 4.3 miles northeast of Surfside Beach, TX
Nothing alarming measured 4.3 miles northeast of Surfside Beach, 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 "Surfside Beach" means on this page
Surfside Beach, TX is the nearest named place, 4.3 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: 29.01, -95.25. 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.
Where this fits nationally
This reading comes from 110 individual transects averaged together, 100% of which measured erosion rather than growth. USGS's confidence interval here is ±1.14 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.92 ft/yr, would place it 208 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. Winchester Bay, OR sits at national rank 1117 for growth (1.07 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 1888 miles from here. 2 miles away, Surfside Beach, TX is the nearest other measured stretch: moderate erosion at 1.16 ft/yr.
One address near Surfside Beach: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.