Netarts, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 2.7 miles southwest of Netarts, OR
The coast 2.7 miles southwest of Netarts, OR shows no statistically significant trend either way. USGS's transects measured a rate here, but it's smaller than the survey's own margin of error for this stretch, so calling it "eroding" or "growing" would overstate what the data actually shows.
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 Netarts, OR into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 45.40°N, 123.96°W. 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.
How solid is this number
Averaging 112 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 100% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. Uncertainty on this specific number: 1.13 ft/yr either side. Taken at face value, this segment's raw -0.81 ft/yr reading would land it 221 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2012-1008. Cortez, FL sits at national rank 1109 for growth (1.02 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 2572 miles from here. 3.3 miles up the coast, Oceanside, OR shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Not this whole stretch, just Netarts itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.