Hogans Corner, WA Coastal Erosion Rate
Is the coast eroding 0.4 miles northwest of Hogans Corner, WA?
The coast 0.4 miles northwest of Hogans Corner, WA is actually gaining ground, not losing it: USGS's transects measure 6.05 feet of accretion a year here, sediment building up rather than washing away. At that rate, the shoreline has gained roughly 60.5 feet over the last decade.
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 Hogans Corner, WA. Centered near 47.05°N, 124.17°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.
25 years at this rate
Holding the 6.05 ft/yr accretion rate 0.4 miles northwest of Hogans Corner, WA for 25 years would add roughly 151 feet of shoreline, again assuming nothing about the local sediment supply changes.
What backs this reading up
89 transects feed this segment's number; 0% of them individually measured retreat. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.92 ft/yr either side. Sorted from fastest erosion to fastest growth across all 1211 measured segments nationally, this one lands at 1205. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2012-1008. Rank 1167 nationally for growth belongs to Gearhart, OR, 71 miles from this stretch, measured at 2.24 ft/yr, 0.4x this stretch's rate. 3.2 miles away, Ocean City, WA is the nearest other measured stretch: accretion (beach growing) at 4.1 ft/yr.
Hogans Corner, WA on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.