One of the most important challenges facing coastal engineers/managers/decision-makers is assessing coastal zone evolution due to erosion. Over 70% of the world’s coasts are subject to erosion caused by two main factors that are complex interaction of natural processes and mankind actions/modifications on these zones. In the context of sustainable development of coastal zones, implementing a rigorous and trustful decision-making platform to assess the possible risk of this dynamic phenomenon is mandatory. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and their abilities to store, process, integrate, classify, and represent a huge amount of spatiotemporal data provide a suitable platform for risk assessment and analysis. GIS also offer a user friendly environment to visualize potential hazards and vulnerabilities for a better understanding/studying of coastal change. To follow a systematic method to assess potential risks, GIS abilities are studied against the requirements of a risk assessment framework consisting of seven principles that are hazard identification, causal, consequence, loss, option, and impact analysis and demonstration of compliances. This paper is concluded by stating the limitation of GIS compatibility with available methods for risk analysis, and putting forward propositions to improve risk assessment analysis in coastal zones using GIS by visualizing the risk zones.