Ocean Shores, WA Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 1 miles south of Ocean Shores, WA
The coast 1 miles south of Ocean Shores, WA is actually gaining ground, not losing it: USGS's transects measure 12.13 feet of accretion a year here, sediment building up rather than washing away. At that rate, the shoreline has gained roughly 121.3 feet over the last decade.
The grain of this number
Ocean Shores, WA is the nearest named place, 1 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: 46.95, -124.15. 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.
What 12.13 ft/yr means over time
Holding the 12.13 ft/yr accretion rate 1 miles south of Ocean Shores, WA for 25 years would add roughly 303 feet of shoreline, again assuming nothing about the local sediment supply changes.
How solid is this number
106 transects feed this segment's number; 4% of them individually measured retreat. The published margin on this reading runs ±3.66 ft/yr. Among the 1211 US coastal segments with a measurable trend, this one ranks 1211 for erosion, 1 being the fastest-retreating coast in the dataset. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2012-1008. Seadrift, TX sits at national rank 1150 for growth (1.79 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 1967 miles from here. 3.4 miles up the coast, Oyehut, WA shows 7.54 ft/yr of accreting.
Ocean Shores, WA on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.