Oyehut, WA Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 1.6 miles south of Oyehut, WA
Unusual good news for this stretch: the shoreline 1.6 miles south of Oyehut, WA has grown by a measured 7.54 feet a year on average, per USGS's long-term transect data for this section. At that rate, the shoreline has gained roughly 75.4 feet over the last decade.
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 Oyehut, WA into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 47.00°N, 124.16°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.
25 years at this rate
Holding the 7.54 ft/yr accretion rate 1.6 miles south of Oyehut, WA for 25 years would add roughly 189 feet of shoreline, again assuming nothing about the local sediment supply changes.
Where this fits nationally
Averaging 111 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 0% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. The published margin on this reading runs ±0.84 ft/yr. Sorted from fastest erosion to fastest growth across all 1211 measured segments nationally, this one lands at 1208. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2012-1008. Rank 1072 nationally for growth belongs to Seal Beach, CA, 969 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.73 ft/yr, a small fraction of this stretch's own rate. 3.2 miles up the coast, Hogans Corner, WA shows 6.05 ft/yr of accreting.
Not this whole stretch, just Oyehut itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.