Total bridges
20
Public highway bridges in Haines County
County profile · official public datasets
Haines County, AK
20 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 45% rated Good, 50% Fair, 5% Poor.
- 20
- Public bridges
- 45%
- Good condition
- 5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Haines 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 26%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 5%
- Poor-condition share
- 20
- public highway bridges
- 1994
- 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.
Haines County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Haines County ranks #7 of 27 Alaska counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5%). Haines County, Alaska contains 20 public highway bridges. Roughly 45% are rated “Good,” 50% “Fair,” and 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
45%
9 of 20 rated 7-9
Fair condition
50%
10 of 20 rated 5-6
Poor condition
5%
1 of 20 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#7 of 27
Among Alaska counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 20 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 45% (9)
Fair 50% (10)
Poor 5% (1)
5% of Haines County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
1 of the 20 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 45% 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.
When Haines County's bridges were built
20 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1950s 1
1950–1959
1 bridges
- 1970s 1
1970–1979
1 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
7 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
5 bridges
- 2000s 2
2000–2009
2 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
3 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 7 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 35% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1994, 5 years newer than the Alaska average of 1989.
How Haines County compares with Alaska's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Alaska counties nearest Haines County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1994 against a peer-group mean of 1986 is 8 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 26 Alaska counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denali County | 27 | 18.5% | 77.8% | 3.7% | 1976 |
| Kodiak Island County | 25 | 32% | 60% | 8% | 1981 |
| Haines County (this page) | 20 | 45% | 50% | 5% | 1994 |
| Aleutians East County | 16 | 31.3% | 62.5% | 6.3% | 2000 |
| North Slope County | 16 | 62.5% | 31.3% | 6.3% | 1996 |
| Yakutat City and County | 15 | 46.7% | 40% | 13.3% | 1978 |
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 Haines 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 Haines County, both outside Alaska so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside AK (20 bridges here).
- Custer County, CO · 20 bridges
- Quitman County, GA · 20 bridges
- Issaquena County, MS · 20 bridges
- Loup County, NE · 20 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside AK (1994 here).
- Denton County, TX · avg 1994 · 991 bridges
- St. Charles County, MO · avg 1994 · 417 bridges
- Rock County, WI · avg 1994 · 304 bridges
- Pitt County, NC · avg 1994 · 228 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (20)
KELSALL ROAD
FairOver: NATAGA CREEK 2
HAINES, Haines, AK
Built 1984 Load: 16.0 t ADT: 10
LOGGING ROAD
FairOver: KUSHTAKAA CREEK
HOMESHORE, Haines, AK
Built 1985 Load: 16.2 t
LOGGING ROAD
FairOver: STREAM
HOMESHORE, Haines, AK
Built 1980 Load: 19.8 t
HAINES HIGHWAY
FairOver: CHILKAT RIVER
MILE POINT 23.2, Haines, AK
Built 1958 Load: 22.4 t ADT: 340
LUTAK SPUR
FairOver: CHILKOOT RIVER
MILE POINT 4.8, Haines, AK
Built 1979 Load: 22.9 t ADT: 90
PORCUPINE ROAD
FairOver: PORCUPINE CREEK
MILE POINT 8.3, Haines, AK
Built 2012 Load: 23.4 t ADT: 10
DALTON TRAIL SPUR
FairOver: CLEAR CREEK (HAINES)
MILE POINT 2.9, Haines, AK
Built 1995 Load: 24.6 t ADT: 10
MARINE HWY ROUTE
FairOver: HAINES FERRY TERMINAL
HAINES, Haines, AK
Built 1984 Load: 29.8 t ADT: 43
DALTON TRAIL SPUR
FairOver: LITTLE SALMON RIVER
MILE POINT 3.2, Haines, AK
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10
PORCUPINE ROAD
FairOver: BEAR CREEK
MILE POINT 8.9, Haines, AK
Built 2003 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 10
8552
GoodOver: STREAM
EXCURSION INLET, Haines, AK
Built 2017
LOGGING ROAD
GoodOver: HOMESHORE CREEK
HOMESHORE, Haines, AK
Built 1985 Load: 16.2 t
LOGGING ROAD
GoodOver: LOWER SWANSON CREEK
HOMESHORE, Haines, AK
Built 1988 Load: 16.2 t
IRR BIA RTE UNKNOW
GoodOver: IRR BIA ROUTE UNKNOWN
APPROXIMATELY 0.1 MILES (, Haines, AK
Built 1998 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 10
HAINES HIGHWAY
GoodOver: MUNCASTER CREEK
MILE POINT 28.3, Haines, AK
Built 1999 Load: 40.4 t ADT: 160
HAINES HIGHWAY
GoodOver: LITTLE BOULDER CREEK
MILE POINT 31.0, Haines, AK
Built 1991 Load: 40.4 t ADT: 110
HAINES HIGHWAY
GoodOver: BIG BOULDER CREEK
MILE POINT 33.2, Haines, AK
Built 1991 Load: 40.4 t ADT: 110
PORCUPINE CROSSING
GoodOver: KLEHINI RIVER
MILE POINT 0.1, Haines, AK
Built 2017 Load: 40.4 t ADT: 110
PORCUPINE ROAD
GoodOver: GLACIER CREEK
MILE POINT 10.8, Haines, AK
Built 2023 Load: 47.4 t ADT: 10
LOGGING ROAD
PoorOver: FIRST CREEK
HOMESHORE, Haines, AK
Built 1985 Load: 16.2 t
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