Pistol River, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 6.1 miles south of Pistol River, OR
Nothing alarming measured 6.1 miles south of Pistol River, OR: whatever shift USGS's transects picked up here is too small to call reliably one way or the other, which this site reports as "no significant trend" rather than forcing a direction.
The grain of this number
Pistol River, OR is the nearest named place, 6.1 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: 42.20, -124.37. The survey behind it runs to 2002-2011, in USGS's Pacific Northwest assessment, using the LRR method. Shoreline surveys aren't repeated every year, so this is the most recent long-term measurement USGS has published for this coast, not a live reading.
How solid is this number
Averaging 23 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 65% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. The published margin on this reading runs ±0.6 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.07 ft/yr, would place it 690 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. Rank 1147 nationally for growth belongs to Coronado, CA, 767 miles from this stretch, measured at 1.69 ft/yr. 3.9 miles away, Brookings, OR is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
One address near Pistol River: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.