Venice Gardens, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 1.4 miles southwest of Venice Gardens, FL
Good news, and an honest one: USGS's data can't distinguish this stretch, 1.4 miles southwest of Venice Gardens, FL, from a flat trend. Whatever small movement it measured here is statistical noise, not a reliable direction, so none is claimed.
What "Venice Gardens" means on this page
USGS surveys the coast in transects spaced a few hundred feet apart; this page groups the nearest ones into a single ~3.5-mile reading for the stretch closest to Venice Gardens, FL, rather than showing one arbitrary line. Segment center: 27.06, -82.43. 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
This reading comes from 66 individual transects averaged together, 83% of which measured erosion rather than growth. USGS's confidence interval here is ±0.53 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.17 ft/yr, would place it 535 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 1028 nationally for growth belongs to Port Orford, OR, 2588 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.53 ft/yr. 2 miles away, South Venice, FL is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
Not this whole stretch, just Venice Gardens itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.