Brookings, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 5.6 miles northwest of Brookings, OR
Nothing alarming measured 5.6 miles northwest of Brookings, OR: 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 this reading actually covers
Brookings, OR is the nearest named place, 5.6 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: 42.15, -124.35. 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.
How solid is this number
This reading comes from 36 individual transects averaged together, 22% of which measured erosion rather than growth. USGS's confidence interval here is ±0.82 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, 0.26 ft/yr, would place it 951 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: Gearhart, OR, 271 miles away, ranks 1188 of 1211 nationally for growth, 3.67 ft/yr. 3 miles up the coast, Brookings, OR shows the same lack of a significant trend.
One address near Brookings: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.