Wildwood Crest, NJ Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 0.7 miles northeast of Wildwood Crest, NJ
0.7 miles northeast of Wildwood Crest, NJ, the coast is advancing, not retreating, at a measured 3.33 feet a year, sediment accumulating faster than any erosion USGS recorded here. At that rate, the shoreline has gained roughly 33.3 feet over the last decade.
What "Wildwood Crest" means on this page
Wildwood Crest, NJ is the nearest named place, 0.7 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: 38.98, -74.83. The survey behind it runs to 2007-2009, in USGS's New England / Mid-Atlantic 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.
What 3.33 ft/yr means over time
Holding the 3.33 ft/yr accretion rate 0.7 miles northeast of Wildwood Crest, NJ for 25 years would add roughly 83 feet of shoreline, again assuming nothing about the local sediment supply changes.
How solid is this number
33 transects feed this segment's number; 0% of them individually measured retreat. The published margin on this reading runs ±1.52 ft/yr. Sorted from fastest erosion to fastest growth across all 1211 measured segments nationally, this one lands at 1185. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2010-1119. For scale: Copalis Beach, WA, 2510 miles away, ranks 1190 of 1211 nationally for growth, 3.87 ft/yr, 1.2x this stretch's rate. 1.8 miles away, Diamond Beach, NJ is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
One address near Wildwood Crest: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.