Taholah, WA Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change right at Taholah, WA
The coast right at Taholah, WA has been retreating at a measured 0.57 feet a year, USGS's own long-term rate for this stretch, built from historical shoreline positions rather than a single survey. At that rate, the shoreline has lost roughly 5.7 feet over the last decade.
What "Taholah" means on this page
This is a roughly 3.5-mile stretch of coast, not one address or parcel - USGS's own transects run every few hundred feet, but that's finer than any one property needs, so this page reports the stretch nearest Taholah, WA. Centered near 47.32°N, 124.28°W. 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.
25 years at this rate
If 0.57 ft/yr holds for the next 25 years, the coast right at Taholah, WA would retreat roughly 14 more feet, a projection, not a certainty: erosion rates shift with storms, sediment supply and any armoring built in the meantime.
How solid is this number
This reading comes from 7 individual transects averaged together, 100% of which measured erosion rather than growth. USGS's confidence interval here is ±0.17 ft/yr. Among the 1211 US coastal segments with a measurable trend, this one ranks 276 for erosion, 1 being the fastest-retreating coast in the dataset. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2012-1008. Rank 99 nationally for erosion belongs to South Padre Island, TX, 2072 miles from this stretch, measured at 2.78 ft/yr, 4.9x this stretch's rate. 1.3 miles away, Taholah, WA is the nearest other measured stretch: slight erosion at 0.61 ft/yr.
Taholah, WA on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.