Gold Beach, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 0.4 miles southeast of Gold Beach, OR
Nothing alarming measured 0.4 miles southeast of Gold Beach, 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
Gold Beach, OR is the nearest named place, 0.4 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: 42.40, -124.42. Survey years: 2002-2011, method LRR, from USGS's Pacific Northwest shoreline-change assessment. That's how current the data is here, real, but not a live feed, since a shoreline survey is a major undertaking, not an annual check-in.
What backs this reading up
This reading comes from 85 individual transects averaged together, 36% of which measured erosion rather than growth. USGS's confidence interval here is ±2.26 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, 0.35 ft/yr, would place it 983 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. Sanibel, FL sits at national rank 1176 for growth (2.71 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 2615 miles from here. 2.7 miles up the coast, Gold Beach, OR shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Gold Beach, OR on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.