Georgia coast

Guides

Short explainers for the parts of the board that decide whether you go, for every Georgia county board: Chatham, Bryan, Liberty and McIntosh on the Savannah board, Glynn and Camden on the Golden Isles board. Each one links to the agency that owns the facts, and none of them go out of date on a schedule. The live readings are on the board.

• Tsunami: what to do on the Georgia coast
  What is actually known about tsunamis on this coast, the sea’s own warning signs, what each alert level means, your county’s alerts, and why storm surge is the water that usually does harm here.
• Small craft advisories on the Georgia coast
  Which coastal waters your town reads, Charleston’s or Jacksonville’s, why the sounds and rivers have no forecast of their own, and what an advisory, gale or special marine warning means in knots.
• Reading a tide table on the Georgia coast
  What the zero is measured from, why the tide here is seven feet and twice a day, which stations are live gauges, the tables worked out from Fort Pulaski and Fernandina Beach, and how far the wind can push the water off the table.
• Fishing: what is open, and the limits
  CRD’s daily limits for the inshore fish, cobia’s season, and the 2026 red snapper season in federal waters.
• Fire: what is burning, and burn bans
  Wildfires on the interagency list, how the tile reads the State Forester’s burn ban orders, and the rules for burning.
• Oysters: the season, the harvest areas and who to call
  How CRD closes the oyster season each summer and reopens it, its seven recreational harvest areas and the nearest to each town, and why an area’s status takes a phone call.
• Beach water: who samples, and what an advisory means
  Who samples Tybee, St. Simons, Sea Island and Jekyll, what the line at 70 Enterococcus means, the permanent advisories, and the islands nobody samples.