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Fayette County, AL

186 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 30.6% rated Good, 68.3% Fair, 1.1% Poor.

186
Public bridges
30.6%
Good condition
1.1%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Fayette County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 19%
lowest Poor share in state
1.1%
Poor-condition share
186
public highway bridges
1969
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.

Fayette County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Fayette County ranks #13 of 67 Alabama counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.1%). Fayette County, Alabama contains 186 public highway bridges. Roughly 30.6% are rated “Good,” 68.3% “Fair,” and 1.1% “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.

Total bridges

186

Public highway bridges in Fayette County

Good condition

30.6%

57 of 186 rated 7-9

Fair condition

68.3%

127 of 186 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.1%

2 of 186 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#13 of 67

Among Alabama counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 186 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
30.6% (57)
Fair
68.3% (127)
Poor
1.1% (2)

Fayette County's Poor-condition bridges carry 385 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 193 crossings a day against 411 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 186 of 186 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

61.3% of Fayette County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

114 of the 186 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 30.6% 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 85.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

COUNTY RD. 63 over GEORGE CREEK, built 1956, carries 330 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 2-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 385 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Fayette County's bridges were built

186 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 50 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 26.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1969, 5 years older than the Alabama average of 1974.

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

How Fayette County compares with Alabama's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Alabama counties nearest Fayette County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.1% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1969 against a peer-group mean of 1971 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 66 Alabama counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Fayette County and the 5 Alabama counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Butler County 189 1.1%
Chilton County 189 1.1%
Fayette County (this page) 186 1.1%
Chambers County 185 8.1%
St. Clair County 183 1.6%
Lamar County 181 2.2%

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 Fayette 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 Fayette County, both outside Alabama so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside AL (186 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside AL (1969 here).

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 186 Good 57 Fair 127 Poor 2

All bridges (186)

KIRKLAND RD

Good

Over: TURKEY CREEK

2.0 MI SE OF BLUFF, Fayette, AL

Built 1990 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 40

CLEAR CREEK RD.

Good

Over: CLEAR CREEK

1.5 MI E OF DAVIS CHAP, Fayette, AL

Built 1990 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 53

COUNTY ROAD 115

Good

Over: STUDHORSE CREEK

.5MI W OF AL 129 ON CR115, Fayette, AL

Built 2004 Load: 42.4 t ADT: 110

HOLLINGSWORTH ROAD

Good

Over: LUXAPALLILA CREEK RELIEF

5 MI NW OF FAYETTE, Fayette, AL

Built 2003 Load: 42.7 t ADT: 66

DODSON RD.

Good

Over: DODSON CREEK

2.0 MI SE OF WAYSIDE, Fayette, AL

Built 1989 Load: 43.5 t ADT: 59

AL-171

Good

Over: Savage Creek

1.3 MI N Brotherton Cem, Fayette, AL

Built 1952 Load: 44.2 t ADT: 2,041

CO RT 24

Good

Over: TURKEY CREEK

1.0 E OF WHITES SPRING.CH, Fayette, AL

Built 1974 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 147

WOLF CREEK RD.

Good

Over: WOLF CREEK

3.0 NE STTURD CROSSROADS, Fayette, AL

Built 1990 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 60

TIDWELL RD.

Good

Over: TURKEY CREEK

2.0 MI. N OF HUBERTVILLE, Fayette, AL

Built 1990 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 53

Overhead Road

Good

Over: Deadwater Creek

Bankston, Fayette, AL

Built 2016 Load: 44.8 t ADT: 16

COUNTY ROAD NO 36

Good

Over: SUGAR CREEK

2 MILES EAST OF WAYSIDE, Fayette, AL

Built 2003 Load: 45.2 t ADT: 883

COUNTY ROAD 10

Good

Over: SUGAR CREEK

1.5 MI. WEST JCT CR36*10, Fayette, AL

Built 2003 Load: 45.3 t ADT: 215

COFFEE CREEK ROAD

Good

Over: COFFEE CREEK

2.2 MILES EAST OF WAYSIDE, Fayette, AL

Built 2002 Load: 45.3 t ADT: 32

TURNER RD.

Good

Over: INDIAN CREEK

5.0 NW OF FAYETTE, Fayette, AL

Built 1986 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 58

AL-129

Good

Over: Musgrove Creek

Lawrence Mill, Fayette, AL

Built 2001 Load: 46.2 t ADT: 351

CO RT 04

Good

Over: BEAVER CREEK

2.0 W OF PILGRIME REST CH, Fayette, AL

Built 1965 Load: 47.8 t ADT: 118

AL-18

Good

Over: Luxapallilia Crk Relief

3.2 MI W of Fayette, Fayette, AL

Built 1994 Load: 47.9 t ADT: 3,312

Mt. Pleasant Rd

Good

Over: BELLE CREEK

6 mi. se of fayette, Fayette, AL

Built 2015 Load: 49.1 t ADT: 38

CR-23

Good

Over: Wiggins Creek

CR-23 @ Lamar County Line, Fayette, AL

Built 2015 Load: 55.2 t ADT: 177

CO ROAD 63

Good

Over: BOXES CREEK

0.25 S PLEASANT GROVE CH, Fayette, AL

Built 1950 Load: 55.5 t ADT: 154

AL-18

Good

Over: Deadwater Creek

Deadwater creek MP 39.61, Fayette, AL

Built 2018 Load: 56.7 t ADT: 1,500

COTTON RD.

Good

Over: BELL CREEK

7.0 MI SE OF FAYETTE, Fayette, AL

Built 1990 Load: 59.9 t ADT: 58

Jenkins Cemetery

Good

Over: North River

2 Miles West of Pea Ridge, Fayette, AL

Built 2018 Load: 60.2 t ADT: 85

SR-18 (US-43)

Good

Over: Deadwater Creek

0.2 MI W of Bankston, Fayette, AL

Built 2021 Load: 61.0 t ADT: 1,700

COUNTY RD 127

Good

Over: CANE CREEK

4.0 MI NE OF BERRY, Fayette, AL

Built 1983 Load: 62.6 t ADT: 93

VICTOR ROAD

Good

Over: LITTLE CREEK

.5MI E CR53 ON VICTOR RD, Fayette, AL

Built 2004 Load: 63.6 t ADT: 41

PROSPECT RD

Good

Over: LITTLE CREEK

3.0 MI E OF HUBBERTVILLE, Fayette, AL

Built 1965 Load: 64.4 t ADT: 55

AVERY GRAY RD.

Good

Over: LITTLE DEADWATER CREEK

3.0 MI. NW BANKSTON, Fayette, AL

Built 1990 Load: 65.3 t ADT: 60

CR. 21

Good

Over: LUXPALLILA TRIBUTARY

2.5 MI. W OF FAYETTE, Fayette, AL

Built 1960 Load: 67.6 t ADT: 418

CO RD 49

Good

Over: MOSS CREEK

2.0 S OF WINFIELD, Fayette, AL

Built 1985 Load: 69.0 t ADT: 130

COOK ROAD

Good

Over: DODSON CREEK

.5MI E AL107 ON COOK RD, Fayette, AL

Built 2004 Load: 85.4 t ADT: 29

CO RT 24

Good

Over: STUDHORSE CREEK

4.0 W OF HUBBERTVILLE, Fayette, AL

Built 1972 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 168

CO RD 26

Good

Over: SANDY POINT CREEK

5 MI SW BERRY, Fayette, AL

Built 1955 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 730

CR 53

Good

Over: TUCKER BRANCH

3 MI SE OF GLENN ALLEN, Fayette, AL

Built 1956 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 173

MADISON RD.

Poor

Over: TYRO CREEK

3.0 S E OF BERRY, Fayette, AL

Built 1974 Load: 2.7 t ADT: 55

COUNTY RD. 63

Poor

Over: GEORGE CREEK

6.3 MILES NE OF BERRY, Fayette, AL

Built 1956 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 330

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