Belaire Avenue
Carrying Belaire Avenue over Henderson Drainage Ditch
CT050-4, Laramie, Wyoming
Inventory: FHWA NBI 2024 · last ETL August 2026
FHWA NBI record, refreshed with each annual release.
Belaire Avenue in Laramie, Wyoming sits above 65% of rated Wyoming bridges on inventory load rating (34 t), while its 1978 build year is earlier than 30% of Laramie's recorded-year cohort (254 bridges).
Belaire Avenue in Laramie, Wyoming is rated Fair in the FHWA's 2024 National Bridge Inventory. Built in 1978, it carries 1 rated component on the inspecting agency's 0-9 scale, and its weakest reported component scores 6. The lowest applicable rating sets the federal condition category, so this Fair result describes the weakest reported component rather than the structure as a whole. No NBI category is a closure decision or a live crossing-safety verdict.
NBI record plate
Structure WY:FKR
INTERSTATE-ERA · CONCRETE · MULTI-SPAN · CULVERT-LED · LOCAL-ADT · STANDARD-LOAD · CAT-FAIR
- INTERSTATE-ERA 1950–1979
- CONCRETE Concrete
- MULTI-SPAN 3 spans
- CULVERT-LED Culvert-led
- LOCAL-ADT Local ADT
- STANDARD-LOAD Standard load
- CAT-FAIR Fair
Inspection-sheet codes from this record’s year, material family, spans, controlling component, ADT, inventory load, and NBI category, not a live closure verdict.
Structural health score
A composite of the deck, superstructure, and substructure NBI condition ratings plus the inventory load rating, benchmarked against the full national bridge corpus, distinct from the Good/Fair/Poor category above.
Bridge Snapshot: Belaire Avenue
The Belaire Avenue bridge in Laramie, Wyoming carries Belaire Avenue over Henderson Drainage Ditch. It was built in 1978, making it 48 years old today. It was last reconstructed in 1995, extending its service life. The structure is built primarily of concrete and spans 3 sections, stretching 10.4 meters (34 feet) end to end. Daily traffic averages 201 vehicles, placing it in the lower-traffic tier of Wyoming bridges. It is owned and maintained by City/Municipal Highway Agency.
The latest FHWA inspection places the weakest component in fair condition (see the full component ratings below). None of this bridge's reported major components fall into the Poor condition range.
How Belaire Avenue compares
Age against the county: built in 1978, earlier than 76 of Laramie's 254 bridges with a recorded construction year (30%), against a county median build year of 1968. This is one of the newer structures in its county.
Live comparison across Wyoming bridges with a recorded inventory load rating (3,118 of 3,136 rated).
Belaire Avenue vs every rated Wyoming bridge
Inventory load rating (metric tons), FHWA NBI, this state
34 Top 35% higher than 65% of 3,118 bridges
rated Wyoming bridges, bucketed by value
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Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory · August 2026
Condition Ratings
Full 0–9 scale + sufficiency-rating breakdown: how condition ratings work.
Laramie inventory by recorded NBI category
Exclusive Good/Fair/Poor bands across all 254 bridges in this county. Orthogonal to this structure's component profile above: a county catalog share, not a live crossing-safety verdict.
Structural Details
- Year Built
- 1978
- Last Reconstructed
- 1995
- Material
- Concrete
- Number of Spans
- 3
- Structure Length
- 10.4 m (34 ft)
- Deck Width
- 15.2 m (50 ft)
- Owner
- City/Municipal Highway Agency
- Avg Daily Traffic
- 201 vehicles/day
- Structure Number
- FKR
Location
Data Source
FHWA National Bridge Inventory (NBI).
FHWA NBI Program ↗How to read this record
This page shows what the last federal inspection recorded, not whether Belaire Avenue is safe to cross today. Here is how to use it.
- NBI condition ratings reflect the latest record in this annual dataset, not a live status. Current routine inspection intervals are risk-based.
- Learn how the 0–9 condition scale and Good/Fair/Poor categories are defined. How condition ratings work
- Compare Belaire Avenue against other structures in Laramie and across Wyoming. Wyoming bridges
- Noticed visible damage or a safety concern? Report it to the agency that owns the bridge, or call 911 in an emergency. How to report a bridge
Condition codes come straight from the FHWA National Bridge Inventory and are not a real-time safety judgment. Only the owning agency, a state DOT, county, or other owner, can post, restrict, or close a bridge.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do the condition ratings mean for Belaire Avenue?
Belaire Avenue in Laramie, Wyoming on the FHWA's 0–9 scale.
How often is Belaire Avenue inspected?
Belaire Avenue's responsible agency sets its routine interval under FHWA's risk-based inspection rules; this page does not expose the scheduled interval. It carries about 201 vehicles per day.
What does “structurally deficient” mean in older bridge reports?
FHWA retired that reported status beginning with the 2018 archive. Belaire Avenue is currently shown as Fair condition from its component ratings; that category is not a live closure or safety decision.
What is the inventory load rating for Belaire Avenue?
Belaire Avenue has an NBI inventory load rating of 33.9 metric tons.
Who is responsible for maintaining Belaire Avenue?
Belaire Avenue is owned and maintained by City/Municipal Highway Agency.
How old is Belaire Avenue and does age affect safety?
Belaire Avenue was built in 1978, making it 48 years old and last reconstructed in 1995.
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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Component ratings, ADT, and condition category on this page are copied from the NBI record for this structure; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2024 NBI release. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.