Nesika Beach, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 0.4 miles northwest of Nesika Beach, OR
Good news, and an honest one: USGS's data can't distinguish this stretch, 0.4 miles northwest of Nesika Beach, OR, from a flat trend. Whatever small movement it measured here is statistical noise, not a reliable direction, so none is claimed.
What "Nesika Beach" means on this page
USGS surveys the coast in transects spaced a few hundred feet apart; this page groups the nearest ones into a single ~3.5-mile reading for the stretch closest to Nesika Beach, OR, rather than showing one arbitrary line. Segment center: 42.51, -124.41. 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
63 transects feed this segment's number; 87% of them individually measured retreat. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.79 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, -0.34 ft/yr, would place it 382 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. Chatham, MA sits at national rank 1203 for growth (5.4 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 2744 miles from here. 2.7 miles away, Nesika Beach, OR is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
One address near Nesika Beach: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.