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Certificate of Coastal Impact

The sea is moving. Know what it's doing to your address.

A parcel-level certificate built from the federal record — your erosion rate, storm-surge exposure, uncertainty, and whether the next step should be a licensed coastal survey, engineering review, or permit consultation. Not the neighborhood. The address.

Best coverage: Northeast open coast and California. Limited findings may return elsewhere. First look is free.
133,000+
USGS shoreline transects
1842–today
hurricane record
Cat 1–5
NOAA surge modeling
± ft/yr
measured, with confidence

“The planet is not your scenery, and it does not consult you.”

A bluff on the South Fork lost twelve feet of elevation in seventy-two hours. The rate is measurable. Most owners are flying blind.
The deliverable

An engraved certificate, not a dashboard

Read a real one — the Camp Hero bluffs at Montauk Point, eroding 3.1 ft/yr with the recent rate running 2.67× the century average. Every figure traces to a federal source.

Open a sample certificate
What's inside

Six exhibits, one determination

The screening layer before the field report: rate, setback, horizon, storm exposure, uncertainty, and a clear recommendation on whether licensed site review is warranted.

Exhibit I

Rate of change & setback

Long-term and recent erosion rates with a 90% confidence interval, and your distance to the mapped shore.

Exhibit II

Retreat history

Every historical survey since the 1800s, plotted — the sea drawing measurably nearer, decade by decade.

Exhibit III

Storm & hurricane exposure

Your surge depth by category, the storms that have passed, and an escape plan built for your parcel's regime.

Exhibit IV

Nearshore bathymetry

The seafloor that decides how much storm-wave energy reaches your bluff toe — the cause behind the rate.

Exhibit V

Methodology & uncertainty

Source vintage, confidence intervals, coverage limits, and the field conditions an automated screen cannot verify.

Exhibit VI

Determination & horizon

A single, dated finding: stable, watch, elevated, or critical — and the years until the edge reaches the house.

The record

Nothing invented. Everything sourced.

Compiled from the public archives of the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The certificate cites every dataset by name.

USGS Digital Shoreline Analysis SystemNOAA SLOSH surge maps NOAA IBTrACS hurricane archiveUSGS national elevationGEBCO bathymetry
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Screen before you spend

For a buyer in diligence, an attorney at closing, a lender underwriting the collateral, or an owner who wants the truth about the ground.

$99 / address
  • The full six-exhibit certificate, delivered as a document
  • Every figure sourced to the federal record
  • Parcel-specific storm exposure and escape plan
  • Transaction package with methodology appendix — on request
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