Wachapreague, VA Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 5.1 miles southeast of Wachapreague, VA
Nothing alarming measured 5.1 miles southeast of Wachapreague, VA: 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
Wachapreague, VA is the nearest named place, 5.1 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: 37.56, -75.61. Survey years: 2007-2009, method LRR, from USGS's New England / Mid-Atlantic 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
47 transects feed this segment's number; 13% of them individually measured retreat. USGS's confidence interval here is ±2.24 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, 0.73 ft/yr, would place it 1068 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 2010-1119. For scale: Coronado, CA, 2353 miles away, ranks 1125 of 1211 nationally for growth, 1.22 ft/yr. Wachapreague, VA, 2.1 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, itself no significant trend.
One address near Wachapreague: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.