Bay Center, WA Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 5.3 miles west of Bay Center, WA
Nothing alarming measured 5.3 miles west of Bay Center, WA: whatever shift USGS's transects picked up here is too small to call reliably one way or the other, which this site reports as "no significant trend" rather than forcing a direction.
What "Bay Center" means on this page
Bay Center, WA is the nearest named place, 5.3 miles away, to a ~3.5-mile stretch of coast USGS has surveyed - the reading below covers that whole stretch, not a single property in it. Segment center: 46.60, -124.06. 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.
What backs this reading up
Averaging 112 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 100% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. USGS's confidence interval here is ±1.25 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.94 ft/yr, would place it 203 of 1211 if ranked directly - but an unreliable rank isn't a useful one, which is exactly why "no significant trend" is the headline instead. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2012-1008. For scale: Dana Point, CA, 966 miles away, ranks 1006 of 1211 nationally for growth, 0.44 ft/yr. Bay Center, WA, 2.4 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, itself no significant trend.
One address near Bay Center: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.