Saunders Lake, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 2.3 miles southwest of Saunders Lake, OR
The coast 2.3 miles southwest of Saunders Lake, OR shows no statistically significant trend either way. USGS's transects measured a rate here, but it's smaller than the survey's own margin of error for this stretch, so calling it "eroding" or "growing" would overstate what the data actually shows.
What "Saunders Lake" means on this page
Nothing here is parcel-level. USGS's raw transects run every few hundred feet along the shore; this page averages the ones nearest Saunders Lake, OR into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 43.50°N, 124.25°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.
Where this fits nationally
Averaging 114 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 36% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. USGS's confidence interval here is ±0.56 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw 0.04 ft/yr reading would land it 812 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2012-1008. For scale: Texas City, TX, 1892 miles away, ranks 1179 of 1211 nationally for growth, 2.85 ft/yr. 2.8 miles up the coast, Glasgow, OR shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Saunders Lake, OR on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.