Total bridges
200
Public highway bridges in Escambia County
County profile · official public datasets
Escambia County, AL
200 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 21.5% rated Good, 77% Fair, 1.5% Poor.
- 200
- Public bridges
- 21.5%
- Good condition
- 1.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Escambia County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 31%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 1.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 200
- public highway bridges
- 1973
- avg year built
Poor is an FHWA condition category from the lowest applicable component rating (4 or below), not a live crossing-safety or closure decision. Rankings cover counties with at least five public highway bridges.
Escambia County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Escambia County ranks #21 of 67 Alabama counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.5%). Escambia County, Alabama contains 200 public highway bridges. Roughly 21.5% are rated “Good,” 77% “Fair,” and 1.5% “Poor.” Poor means the lowest applicable deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert rating is 4 or below on the 0–9 NBI scale. It is a condition category, not a live safety or closure decision.
Responsible agencies inspect covered bridges on risk-based intervals under current NBIS rules and submit inventory data to FHWA annually. The list below shows every NBI-tracked bridge in the county. Use the “Sort by” controls to change the ordering, and click any row for its reported inspection date, traffic count, and condition fields.
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory. See methodology for full definitions.
Good condition
21.5%
43 of 200 rated 7-9
Fair condition
77%
154 of 200 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.5%
3 of 200 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#21 of 67
Among Alabama counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 200 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 21.5% (43)
Fair 77% (154)
Poor 1.5% (3)
Escambia County's Poor-condition bridges carry 195 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 65 crossings a day against 1,252 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.
Computed over the 200 of 200 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
58.1% of Escambia County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
115 of the 198 bridges with a recorded construction year were built in 1974 or earlier. Age alone is not a defect: a well-maintained older bridge can rate Good, and 21.5% of this county's inventory does. Even so, this older cohort is the population from which future Poor ratings are drawn, which is why the age profile below matters alongside the condition split above.
Cutoff derives from the 2024 release year minus a 50-year design life. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
One structure carries 51.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
MILLER CREEK BRIDG over MILLER CREEK, built 1964, carries 100 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 3-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 195 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Escambia County's bridges were built
198 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 4
1920–1929
4 bridges
- 1930s 5
1930–1939
5 bridges
- 1940s 12
1940–1949
12 bridges
- 1950s 21
1950–1959
21 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
59 bridges
- 1970s 17
1970–1979
17 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
24 bridges
- 1990s 18
1990–1999
18 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
29 bridges
- 2010s 8
2010–2019
8 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 59 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 29.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1973) matches the Alabama average (1974).
How Escambia County compares with Alabama's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Alabama counties nearest Escambia County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.5% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1973 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 66 Alabama counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva County | 205 | 34.6% | 62% | 3.4% | 1976 |
| Russell County | 205 | 34.6% | 62.4% | 2.9% | 1974 |
| Greene County | 204 | 45.1% | 52% | 2.9% | 1973 |
| Marengo County | 203 | 61.1% | 33% | 5.9% | 1984 |
| Elmore County | 202 | 29.2% | 67.8% | 3% | 1980 |
| Escambia County (this page) | 200 | 21.5% | 77% | 1.5% | 1973 |
Each share is of that county's own total tracked bridges; peers are the counties with 5 or more bridges whose inventory size is closest to Escambia County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year
Two NBI-derived peer sets for Escambia County, both outside Alabama so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside AL (200 bridges here).
- Clay County, AR · 200 bridges
- Parke County, IN · 200 bridges
- Fayette County, KY · 200 bridges
- Eaton County, MI · 200 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside AL (1973 here).
- Erie County, NY · avg 1973 · 906 bridges
- Davidson County, TN · avg 1973 · 832 bridges
- Lancaster County, PA · avg 1973 · 801 bridges
- Sacramento County, CA · avg 1973 · 740 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (154)
COUNTY ROAD
FairOver: BRUSHY CREEK BRANCH
2MI SE NOKOMIS, Escambia, AL
Built 1973 Load: 24.9 t ADT: 90
ALGER ROAD
FairOver: I-65
7.3 MI N SR 21, Escambia, AL
Built 1960 Load: 25.8 t ADT: 96
I-65 NBL
FairOver: BRANCH
3.5 MI N BALDWIN CO LINE, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 25.8 t ADT: 13,191
COUNTY HIGHWAY
FairOver: FLOYD CREEK
2MI NE ELAM CHURCH, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 26.0 t ADT: 175
I-65 SB
FairOver: WET WEATHER CREEK
1.3 MI N JCT SR 21, Escambia, AL
Built 1960 Load: 26.1 t ADT: 11,570
I-65 NB
FairOver: WET WEATHER CREEK
1.3 MI N JCT SR 21, Escambia, AL
Built 1960 Load: 26.1 t ADT: 11,570
I-65 SB
FairOver: PERDIDO CREEK
3.3 MI N BALD CO LINE, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 26.1 t ADT: 13,191
I-65 NB
FairOver: PERDIDO CREEK
3.3 MI N BALDWIN CO LINE, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 26.1 t ADT: 13,191
COUNTY ROAD
FairOver: SCHOOL HOUSE CREEK
1MI E ROBERTS, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 26.1 t ADT: 125
COUNTY ROAD
FairOver: SCHOOL HOUSE CREEK
1MI S ELAM CHURCH, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 26.2 t ADT: 45
COUNTY HIGHWAY
FairOver: SEVEN MILE CREEK RELIEF
1.5MI W N.BREWTON, Escambia, AL
Built 1969 Load: 26.4 t ADT: 250
SR 21
FairOver: WET WEATHER CREEK
1 MI N I-65, Escambia, AL
Built 1968 Load: 26.5 t ADT: 6,004
COUNTY ROAD
FairOver: BIG ESCAMBIA CREEK
2MI NW BARNETTES X-ROAD, Escambia, AL
Built 1939 Load: 26.7 t ADT: 100
COUNTY HIGHWAY
FairOver: BLUE BRANCH
4MI N KIRKLAND, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 27.3 t ADT: 75
CO RD 45
FairOver: I-65
4.4 MI N SR 21, Escambia, AL
Built 1959 Load: 27.5 t ADT: 781
SR 41
FairOver: BURNT CORN RELIEF
1.9 MI N US 31, Escambia, AL
Built 1994 Load: 27.8 t ADT: 2,425
I-65 SB
FairOver: SIZEMORE CREEK
2.7 MI S JCT SR 21, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 27.9 t ADT: 11,878
I-65 NB
FairOver: SIZEMORE CREEK
2.7 MI S JCT SR 21, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 27.9 t ADT: 11,998
CO RD 1
FairOver: I-65
5.7 MI N BALDWIN CO LINE, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 28.2 t ADT: 4,379
CO RD 14
FairOver: I-65
0.9 MI S SR 21, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 28.3 t ADT: 1,617
US 31 SB
FairOver: BURNT CORN CREEK
0.3 MI S SR 41, Escambia, AL
Built 1953 Load: 28.4 t ADT: 8,034
I-65 SB
FairOver: FLETCHER CREEK
1 MI N BALDWIN CO LINE, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 28.5 t ADT: 13,191
I-65 NB
FairOver: FLETCHER CREEK
1 MI N BALDWIN CO LINE, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 28.5 t ADT: 13,191
I-65 SB
FairOver: BIG ESCAMBIA CREEK
7.5 MI N JCT SR 21, Escambia, AL
Built 1960 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 11,570
I-65 NBL
FairOver: BIG ESCAMBIA CREEK
7.5 MI N JCT SR 21, Escambia, AL
Built 1960 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 11,570
C0 RD 40
FairOver: I 65
5 MI S CONECUH CO LINE, Escambia, AL
Built 1960 Load: 29.2 t ADT: 423
US 29
FairOver: MURDER CREEK
0.4 MI S E US 31, Escambia, AL
Built 1985 Load: 29.6 t ADT: 13,188
I-65 SB
FairOver: CSX RR * WOODS RD
1.9 MI S SR 41, Escambia, AL
Built 1960 Load: 29.7 t ADT: 12,553
I-65 NB
FairOver: CSX RR * WOODS RD
1.9 MI S SR 41, Escambia, AL
Built 1960 Load: 29.7 t ADT: 12,553
SR 21 SB
FairOver: SIZEMORE CREEK
1.2 MI N CO RD 12, Escambia, AL
Built 1973 Load: 30.0 t ADT: 5,681
SR 21 NB
FairOver: SIZEMORE CREEK
1.2 MI N CO RD 12, Escambia, AL
Built 1973 Load: 30.0 t ADT: 6,019
US 31
FairOver: CSX RR
1.5 MI N CO RD 5, Escambia, AL
Built 1985 Load: 31.2 t ADT: 4,614
SR 21
FairOver: LITTLE RIVER
2.8 MI N CO RD 30, Escambia, AL
Built 1976 Load: 31.6 t ADT: 4,255
COUNTY HIGHWAY
FairOver: LAMBETH CREEK
1MI N MCCALL SCHOOL, Escambia, AL
Built 1937 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 320
US 31
FairOver: BRUSHY CREEK
2.7 MI S SR 21, Escambia, AL
Built 1951 Load: 32.2 t ADT: 6,266
COUNTY HIGHWAY
FairOver: SIZEMORE CREEK
1MI S LITTLE ROCK, Escambia, AL
Built 1997 Load: 32.2 t ADT: 575
US 29
FairOver: 1ST CONECUH RIVER RELIEF
1 MI S CO RD 53, Escambia, AL
Built 1986 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,099
COUNTY HIGHWAY
FairOver: POND CREEK
.7MI E ATMORE PRISON FARM, Escambia, AL
Built 1971 Load: 32.5 t ADT: 210
US 31 NB
FairOver: BURNT CORN CREEK
0.3 MI S SR 41, Escambia, AL
Built 1997 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 8,034
CR (Louisville RD)
FairOver: Jernigan Mill CRK
0.5 MI. NE OF POLLARD, Escambia, AL
Built 1800 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10
US 29
FairOver: 3RD CONECUH RIVER RELIEF
IMMEDIATELY S CO RD 53, Escambia, AL
Built 1986 Load: 32.9 t ADT: 835
US 31
FairOver: PERDIDO RIVER
1.3 MI N BALD CO 47, Escambia, AL
Built 1951 Load: 33.4 t ADT: 5,361
US 29
FairOver: MAY CREEK
1.5 MI S CO RD 22, Escambia, AL
Built 1986 Load: 34.2 t ADT: 1,399
SR 41
FairOver: CONECUH RIVER RELIEF
1 MI N CO RD 55, Escambia, AL
Built 1990 Load: 34.4 t ADT: 5,985
COUNTY ROAD
FairOver: PERDIDO RIVER
2 MI SW NOKOMIS, Escambia, AL
Built 1974 Load: 34.4 t ADT: 75
I-65 SB
FairOver: SR 21
JCT I-65 * SR 21, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 11,998
I-65 NB
FairOver: SR 21
JCT I-65 * SR 21, Escambia, AL
Built 1964 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 11,998
COUNTY HIGHWAY
FairOver: LAMBETH CREEK
1MI W MCCALL SCHOOL, Escambia, AL
Built 1960 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 150
COUNTY HIGHWAY
FairOver: WETWEATHER CREEK #2
1.5MI ENE ROCK CREEK, Escambia, AL
Built 1956 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 240
IRR BIA RTE 4003
FairOver: PERDIDO CREEK
ON LYNN MCGEE ROAD, Escambia, AL
Built 2002 Load: 35.1 t ADT: 159
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