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The Bolstering Ecosystems Against Coastal Harm Act (BEACH Act, Pub. L.118-117) was enacted on November 25, 2024. This law amended the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA) and adopted 195 new or revised maps for 454 units of the CBRS in 13 states. The revised maps were produced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) through the Hurricane Sandy Remapping Project and other efforts and are available through the CBRS Mapper.
The revised maps remove about 1,400 acres from the CBRS, correcting mapping errors affecting about 955 structures. The revised maps also expand the CBRS by about 294,000 acres and add 275 structures to the CBRS. The revised maps reclassify certain areas from System Units to Otherwise Protected Areas and vice versa. Learn more about the differences between these two types of units. This web map is a component of the FWS BEACH Act viewer, which allows users to see where these changes were made. The change polygons in this layer are a visualization tool only and may include some errors, such as:
Offshore areas depicted as either “additions” or “removals” where we altered the length of the boundaries where they extend into bodies of water. These are not actual changes, as the offshore extent of the units is not defined by the polygons, but by either the 30- or 20-foot bathymetric contour (depending on the area).
Minor topological differences that occur in the nationwide dataset that did not exist in the locally projected data (these errors are imperceptible except through geoprocessing).
For more information, including summaries of the changes made to each unit, visit our webpage on the BEACH Act.
Users seeking documentation regarding whether a particular property is within or outside of the CBRS should use the CBRS Validation Tool rather than this web map. Questions? Contact cbra@fws.gov.