Bandon, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 4.6 miles south of Bandon, OR
4.6 miles south of Bandon, OR: USGS's transects didn't pick up a trend here that beats the survey's own uncertainty. That's the majority case nationally, and for this stretch specifically it means the coast is holding, not that the data failed to find anything.
What this reading actually covers
This is a roughly 3.5-mile stretch of coast, not one address or parcel - USGS's own transects run every few hundred feet, but that's finer than any one property needs, so this page reports the stretch nearest Bandon, OR. Centered near 43.05°N, 124.44°W. The survey behind it runs to 2002-2011, in USGS's Pacific Northwest assessment, using the LRR method. Shoreline surveys aren't repeated every year, so this is the most recent long-term measurement USGS has published for this coast, not a live reading.
How solid is this number
Averaging 109 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 1% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. The published margin on this reading runs ±1.46 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw 0.92 ft/yr reading would land it 1095 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 1119 nationally for growth belongs to Chincoteague, VA, 2567 miles from this stretch, measured at 1.09 ft/yr. 3.3 miles up the coast, Bandon, OR shows the same lack of a significant trend.
One address near Bandon: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.