Port Orford, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 0.9 miles northwest of Port Orford, OR
Good news, and an honest one: USGS's data can't distinguish this stretch, 0.9 miles northwest of Port Orford, OR, from a flat trend. Whatever small movement it measured here is statistical noise, not a reliable direction, so none is claimed.
What "Port Orford" 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 Port Orford, OR, rather than showing one arbitrary line. Segment center: 42.76, -124.51. Survey years: 2002-2011, method LRR, from USGS's Pacific Northwest shoreline-change assessment. That's how current the data is here, real, but not a live feed, since a shoreline survey is a major undertaking, not an annual check-in.
Where this fits nationally
Averaging 59 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 90% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. The published margin on this reading runs ±0.53 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.34 ft/yr, would place it 380 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. North Redington Beach, FL sits at national rank 1084 for growth (0.84 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 2536 miles from here. Port Orford, OR, 2.1 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, itself no significant trend.
One address near Port Orford: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.