Yachats, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 5.6 miles south of Yachats, OR
The coast 5.6 miles south of Yachats, 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 "Yachats" 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 Yachats, OR into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 44.23°N, 124.11°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
This reading comes from 6 individual transects averaged together, 100% of which measured erosion rather than growth. USGS's confidence interval here is ±1.35 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw -0.27 ft/yr reading would land it 424 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: El Segundo, CA, 774 miles away, ranks 1114 of 1211 nationally for growth, 1.04 ft/yr. 2.4 miles away, Yachats, OR is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
Not this whole stretch, just Yachats itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.