Florence, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 1.4 miles west of Florence, OR
Nothing alarming measured 1.4 miles west of Florence, 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.
The grain of this number
Florence, OR is the nearest named place, 1.4 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: 44.00, -124.13. 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.
Where this fits nationally
Averaging 104 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 3% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. The published margin on this reading runs ±1.1 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, 0.4 ft/yr, would place it 996 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. Rank 1133 nationally for growth belongs to Manzanita, OR, 118 miles from this stretch, measured at 1.28 ft/yr. 2.7 miles up the coast, Heceta Beach, OR shows the same lack of a significant trend.
One address near Florence: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.