Salmon Creek, CA Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 0.6 miles southwest of Salmon Creek, CA
Nothing alarming measured 0.6 miles southwest of Salmon Creek, CA: 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 "Salmon Creek" means on this page
Salmon Creek, CA is the nearest named place, 0.6 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: 38.34, -123.07. Survey years: 1852-2016, method LRR, from USGS's California 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.
What backs this reading up
76 transects feed this segment's number; 16% of them individually measured retreat. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.35 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, 0.21 ft/yr, would place it 929 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 National Shoreline Change data release (ScienceBase, DOI 10.5066/P94J0K7Z), Kratzmann 2024 / Data Report 1187. For scale: Seaside, OR, 532 miles away, ranks 1155 of 1211 nationally for growth, 1.99 ft/yr. 2.3 miles up the coast, Bodega Bay, CA shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Salmon Creek, CA on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.