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Lee County, AL

214 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.7% rated Good, 57.9% Fair, 1.4% Poor.

214
Public bridges
40.7%
Good condition
1.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Lee County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 27%
lowest Poor share in state
1.4%
Poor-condition share
214
public highway bridges
1980
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.

Lee County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lee County ranks #18 of 67 Alabama counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.4%). Lee County, Alabama contains 214 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.7% are rated “Good,” 57.9% “Fair,” and 1.4% “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

214

Public highway bridges in Lee County

Good condition

40.7%

87 of 214 rated 7-9

Fair condition

57.9%

124 of 214 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.4%

3 of 214 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#18 of 67

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

Condition distribution

Share of 214 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
40.7% (87)
Fair
57.9% (124)
Poor
1.4% (3)

Lee County's Poor-condition bridges carry 76,340 vehicle crossings a day

That is 6.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 25,447 crossings a day against 5,141 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 214 of 214 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

44.9% of Lee County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

96 of the 214 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 40.7% 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 53.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

I-85 over MOORES MILL CREEK, built 1958, carries 40,660 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 76,340 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Lee County's bridges were built

214 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 34 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 15.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1980, 6 years newer than the Alabama average of 1974.

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

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

The 5 Alabama counties nearest Lee County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.4% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1980 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is 5 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Lee County and the 5 Alabama counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Coffee County 216 0.5%
Lawrence County 215 2.8%
Lee County (this page) 214 1.4%
Dale County 206 0%
Geneva County 205 3.4%
Russell County 205 2.9%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside AL (214 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside AL (1980 here).

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

All 214 Good 87 Fair 124 Poor 3

Good-condition bridges (87)

Lee Road 154

Good

Over: HALAWAKEE CREEK

0.8 MI SE JCT LEE RD 390, Lee, AL

Built 2011 Load: 46.2 t ADT: 72

Lee Road 249

Good

Over: Soap Creek

1.0 mi n e jct lee rd 318, Lee, AL

Built 2019 Load: 47.4 t ADT: 71

IN-85

Good

Over: SR 51

JCt sr 51 @ I-85, Lee, AL

Built 2022 Load: 47.7 t ADT: 60,981

Lee Road 145

Good

Over: PHELPS CREEK

1.5 MI. E. JCT. S 169, Lee, AL

Built 1984 Load: 48.4 t ADT: 392

Lee Road 240

Good

Over: HOSPILIKA CREEK

1 MI E JCT LEE ROAD 239, Lee, AL

Built 2006 Load: 49.4 t ADT: 6,053

SR 51

Good

Over: CHEWACLA CREEK

1 mi South AL 169, Lee, AL

Built 2022 Load: 49.4 t ADT: 5,720

Oak Bowery Road

Good

Over: Rocky Branch

Oak Bowery Road, Lee, AL

Built 2015 Load: 49.6 t ADT: 2,150

Lee Road 146

Good

Over: CHEWACLA CREEK

0.5 MI. E. JCT. S 051, Lee, AL

Built 1985 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 3,950

Lee Road 146

Good

Over: CHEWACLA CREEK

0.7 MI. E. JCT. S 051, Lee, AL

Built 1985 Load: 52.3 t ADT: 3,950

Lee Road 14

Good

Over: Choctafaula Creek

0.7 mi w jct Lee Rd 191, Lee, AL

Built 2019 Load: 52.3 t ADT: 32

Lee Road 150

Good

Over: Phelps Creek

0.5 Mi E Jct Lee Road151, Lee, AL

Built 2016 Load: 53.2 t ADT: 15

Lee Road 188

Good

Over: Webb Creek

0.5 mi s rowells X road, Lee, AL

Built 2016 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 365

Lee Road 27

Good

Over: Odom Creek

0.4 mi e jct lee road54, Lee, AL

Built 2016 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 344

Lee Road 10

Good

Over: CHEWACLA CREEK

1.5 mi e jct s 015, Lee, AL

Built 2015 Load: 53.8 t ADT: 2,448

WIRE ROAD

Good

Over: CHOCLAUGALA CREEK

700 FT E OF CHADWICK LANE, Lee, AL

Built 2010 Load: 54.3 t ADT: 13,000

Lee Road 27

Good

Over: Chewacla Creek

.9 mi s jct lee road 54, Lee, AL

Built 2016 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 174

Lee Road 376

Good

Over: Osanippa Creek

0.3 MI S JCT LEE RD 375, Lee, AL

Built 2017 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 67

Lee Road 254

Good

Over: WACOOCHEE CREEK

1 MI N.E JCT S 001, Lee, AL

Built 2003 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 689

Lee Road 044

Good

Over: WATULA CREEK

1.2 MILES EAST AL 051, Lee, AL

Built 2003 Load: 55.2 t ADT: 959

IN-85

Good

Over: NS RR

1 mi n jct long street, Lee, AL

Built 2022 Load: 55.2 t ADT: 60,981

Lee Road 129

Good

Over: MARINGO CREEK

1.0 MI E JCT LEE ROAD 170, Lee, AL

Built 1998 Load: 56.2 t ADT: 279

Lee Road 206

Good

Over: UT of Little Uchee Creek

0.1 mi s Jct Lee Road 240, Lee, AL

Built 2016 Load: 60.1 t ADT: 1,114

CITY STREET

Good

Over: CREEK

DEER RUN ROAD, Lee, AL

Built 1974 Load: 62.1 t ADT: 1,024

_CR 72

Good

Over: _Spillway Drainage

_, Lee, AL

Built 2021 Load: 65.4 t ADT: 4,137

Lee Road 146

Good

Over: FLAKE CREEK

1.4 MI. W. JCT. S 169, Lee, AL

Built 1985 Load: 65.6 t ADT: 3,950

NORTH PARK DRIVE

Good

Over: STREAM

0.8 MI NE ANDERSON RD., Lee, AL

Built 2002 Load: 67.1 t ADT: 1,000

Lee Road 54

Good

Over: NASH CREEK

0.5 MI S JCT LEE RD 146, Lee, AL

Built 1948 Load: 68.3 t ADT: 4,368

Lee Road 144

Good

Over: Little Uchee Creek

0.5 M NE JCT S169, Lee, AL

Built 2018 Load: 72.1 t ADT: 58

Lee Road 156

Good

Over: trib to halawakee creek

0.2 mi w jctLee Road 158, Lee, AL

Built 2016 Load: 72.6 t ADT: 115

Lee Road 246

Good

Over: WHITES CREEK

0.5 MI SE LEE RD 179, Lee, AL

Built 1992 Load: 74.4 t ADT: 1,182

Lee Road 152

Good

Over: HALAWAKEE BRANCH

0.8 MI N E JCT S 001, Lee, AL

Built 1987 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 103

Lee Road 242

Good

Over: HOSPILIKA CREEK

1 MI E JCT LEE RD 239, Lee, AL

Built 1974 Load: 80.7 t ADT: 932

Lee Road 148

Good

Over: LITTLE UCHEE CREEK

2.0 MI E JCT S 169, Lee, AL

Built 1965 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 636

AL 147 / AL 267

Good

Over: BRANCH

2.4 MI N JCT SR 14, Lee, AL

Built 1969 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 17,090

U.S. 280

Good

Over: PEPPERELL CREEK

1.1 MI. WEST OF I85, Lee, AL

Built 1996 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 32,040

ANDREWS ROAD

Good

Over: STREAM

0.17MI E OF I85, Lee, AL

Built 2002 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 1,500

_Ogletree Rd

Good

Over: _Moores Mill Creek

_, Lee, AL

Built 2021 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 2,709

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