Mendocino, CA Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 0.6 miles southwest of Mendocino, CA
USGS did not publish a reliable transect reading for this exact stretch, 0.6 miles southwest of Mendocino, CA, so no rate is shown here rather than a guessed one.
What this reading actually covers
Nothing here is parcel-level. USGS's raw transects run every few hundred feet along the shore; this page averages the ones nearest Mendocino, CA into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 39.30°N, 123.80°W. USGS's California assessment last surveyed this stretch through 1852-2016, 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
Source: USGS National Shoreline Change data release (ScienceBase, DOI 10.5066/P94J0K7Z), Kratzmann 2024 / Data Report 1187. Rank 1150 nationally for growth belongs to Seadrift, TX, 1731 miles from this stretch, measured at 1.79 ft/yr. 2.2 miles away, Little River, CA is the nearest other measured stretch: slight erosion at 0.17 ft/yr.
Not this whole stretch, just Mendocino itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.