Waldport, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 1.6 miles southwest of Waldport, OR
The coast 1.6 miles southwest of Waldport, 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 this reading actually covers
Nothing here is parcel-level. USGS's raw transects run every few hundred feet along the shore; this page averages the ones nearest Waldport, OR into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 44.40°N, 124.08°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.
What backs this reading up
This reading comes from 100 individual transects averaged together, 33% of which measured erosion rather than growth. The published margin on this reading runs ±0.83 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw 0.15 ft/yr reading would land it 891 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2012-1008. Rank 1118 nationally for growth belongs to Marina del Rey, CA, 782 miles from this stretch, measured at 1.07 ft/yr. 1.4 miles up the coast, Waldport, OR shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Waldport, OR on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.