Port Orford, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 7 miles north of Port Orford, OR
Nothing alarming measured 7 miles north of Port Orford, 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.
What this reading actually covers
Port Orford, OR is the nearest named place, 7 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: 42.84, -124.54. 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
This reading comes from 104 individual transects averaged together, 29% of which measured erosion rather than growth. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.36 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, 0.08 ft/yr, would place it 836 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 1028 nationally for growth belongs to Port Orford, OR, 2 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.53 ft/yr. 2.1 miles up the coast, Port Orford, OR shows 0.53 ft/yr of accreting.
One address near Port Orford: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.