Woodlawn Beach, FL Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 2.7 miles east of Woodlawn Beach, FL
Nothing alarming measured 2.7 miles east of Woodlawn Beach, 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.
The grain of this number
Woodlawn Beach, FL is the nearest named place, 2.7 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: 30.39, -86.95. 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.
How solid is this number
97 transects feed this segment's number; 92% of them individually measured retreat. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.43 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, -0.13 ft/yr, would place it 592 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, 1854 miles from this stretch, measured at 1.85 ft/yr. Woodlawn Beach, FL, 3 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, itself no significant trend.
One address near Woodlawn Beach: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.