Surfrider’s State of the Beach Report Finds Coastal States Most At Risk Are Least Prepared For Climate Impacts – The Inertia
![In 2021, the United States experienced record-smashing 20 weather or climate disasters that each resulted in at least $1 billion in damages. (NOAA map by NCEI).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2021-billion-dollar-disaster-map-798x441.png)
This week, the Surfrider Foundation released its sixth annual State of the Beach Report…For the second year in a row, the report reveals that 67 percent of coastal areas assessed are performing at ‘adequate’ to ‘poor’ levels, with some of the lowest grades earned by states that are most often affected by extreme weather and worsening climate events.