Bandon, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 1.3 miles southwest of Bandon, OR
The coast 1.3 miles southwest of Bandon, OR shows no statistically significant trend either way. USGS's transects measured a rate here, but it's smaller than the survey's own margin of error for this stretch, so calling it "eroding" or "growing" would overstate what the data actually shows.
The grain of this number
Nothing here is parcel-level. USGS's raw transects run every few hundred feet along the shore; this page averages the ones nearest Bandon, OR into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 43.10°N, 124.43°W. USGS's Pacific Northwest assessment last surveyed this stretch through 2002-2011, computing the rate with its LRR method. Other US regions were surveyed in different years, sometimes decades apart, so this page states its own rather than implying one national vintage.
What backs this reading up
Averaging 75 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 24% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. USGS's confidence interval here is ±0.77 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw 0.37 ft/yr reading would land it 988 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2012-1008. Rank 959 nationally for growth belongs to Inverness, CA, 354 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.27 ft/yr. Bandon, OR, 1.6 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, itself no significant trend.
Bandon, OR on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.