Total bridges
916
Public highway bridges in Fresno County
County profile · official public datasets
Fresno County, CA
916 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 38.9% rated Good, 57.3% Fair, 3.8% Poor.
- 916
- Public bridges
- 38.9%
- Good condition
- 3.8%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Fresno County posts a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across large county bridge inventory.
- Top 16%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 3.8%
- Poor-condition share
- 916
- 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.
Fresno County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Fresno County ranks #9 of 58 California counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.8%). Fresno County, California contains 916 public highway bridges. Roughly 38.9% are rated “Good,” 57.3% “Fair,” and 3.8% “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
38.9%
356 of 916 rated 7-9
Fair condition
57.3%
525 of 916 rated 5-6
Poor condition
3.8%
35 of 916 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#9 of 58
Among California counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 916 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 38.9% (356)
Fair 57.3% (525)
Poor 3.8% (35)
Fresno County's Poor-condition bridges carry 268,953 vehicle crossings a day
That is 2.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 7,684 crossings a day against 15,630 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 916 of 916 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
60% of Fresno County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
550 of the 916 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 38.9% 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 28.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
STATE ROUTE 41 over O STREET, built 1974, carries 76,000 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 35-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 268,953 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Fresno County's bridges were built
916 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1910s 4
1910–1919
4 bridges
- 1920s
1920–1929
72 bridges
- 1930s 49
1930–1939
49 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
95 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
116 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
165 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
85 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
82 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
104 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
90 bridges
- 2010s 29
2010–2019
29 bridges
- 2020s 24
2020–2029
24 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 165 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1969) matches the California average (1970).
How Fresno County compares with California's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 California counties nearest Fresno County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.8% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1969 against a peer-group mean of 1974 is 5 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 57 California counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orange County | 1,164 | 53.2% | 43.8% | 3% | 1978 |
| Riverside County | 1,117 | 56.4% | 41.2% | 2.4% | 1977 |
| Santa Clara County | 964 | 38.3% | 56.1% | 5.6% | 1972 |
| Fresno County (this page) | 916 | 38.9% | 57.3% | 3.8% | 1969 |
| Sacramento County | 740 | 50.9% | 45.7% | 3.4% | 1973 |
| Kern County | 668 | 50.1% | 43.3% | 6.6% | 1972 |
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 Fresno 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 Fresno County, both outside California so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside CA (916 bridges here).
- St. Louis County, MO · 912 bridges
- Franklin County, OH · 922 bridges
- Erie County, NY · 906 bridges
- Jackson County, MO · 930 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside CA (1969 here).
- Cook County, IL · avg 1969 · 1,721 bridges
- Cuyahoga County, OH · avg 1969 · 871 bridges
- Somerset County, PA · avg 1969 · 454 bridges
- Lewis County, WA · avg 1969 · 419 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (525)
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: WHISKEY CREEK
08S70-1.2, Fresno, CA
Built 1952 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: EDISON SPILLWAY
04S01-27.9, Fresno, CA
Built 1954 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: WESTFALL CREEK
NO DATA ENTERED, Fresno, CA
Built 1977 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: TRIB. SAN JOAQUIN RIVER
08S03-2.74, Fresno, CA
Built 1968 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: JOSE CREEK
09S07-1.4, Fresno, CA
Built 1954 ADT: 50
NO DATA ENTERED
FairOver: ROCK CREEK
NO DATA ENTERED, Fresno, CA
Built 1969 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: COW CREEK
NO DATA ENTERED, Fresno, CA
Built 1982 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: NO DATA ENTERED
NO DATA ENTERED, Fresno, CA
Built 1951 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: SAN JOAQUIN RIVER
NO DATA ENTERED, Fresno, CA
Built 1984 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: BEAR CREEK
NO DATA ENTERED, Fresno, CA
Built 1992 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: DEER CREEK
NO DATA ENTERED, Fresno, CA
Built 1954 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: BEAR CREEK
NO DATA ENTERED, Fresno, CA
Built 1971 ADT: 50
WINDING DIRT ROAD
FairOver: RANCHERIA CREEK
NO DATA ENTERED, Fresno, CA
Built 1969 ADT: 50
DIRT ROAD
FairOver: BIG CREEK
NO DATA ENTERED, Fresno, CA
Built 1936 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: SOUTH FORK SAN JOAQUIN
05S01-31.7, Fresno, CA
Built 1968 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: KAISER CREEK
06S02-21.4, Fresno, CA
Built 1960 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: N.FORK KINGS RIVER
11S12-23.6, Fresno, CA
Built 1956 ADT: 120
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: BIG CREEK
10S18-6.8, Fresno, CA
Built 1955 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: UPPER CHINQUAPIN
07S01-12.1, Fresno, CA
Built 1948 ADT: 50
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: DINKEY CREEK
NO DATA ENTERED, Fresno, CA
Built 1971 ADT: 50
NO DATA ENTERED
FairOver: KAISER CREEK
NO DATA ENTERED, Fresno, CA
Built 1989 ADT: 50
E CALIFORNIA AVE
FairOver: GOLDEN STATE BLVD
200 FT EAST OF ST RTE 41, Fresno, CA
Built 1948 Load: 4.5 t ADT: 2,137
E SHAW AVE
FairOver: FANCHER CREEK
1.1 MI EAST OF ACADEMY AV, Fresno, CA
Built 1947 Load: 5.2 t ADT: 900
TRIMMER SPRINGS RD
FairOver: FRIANT-KERN CANAL
1.5 MI EAST OF BELMONT AV, Fresno, CA
Built 1946 Load: 6.5 t ADT: 1,800
N ACADEMY AVE
FairOver: FRIANT-KERN CANAL
1MI NORTH OF HERNDON AVE, Fresno, CA
Built 1946 Load: 7.5 t ADT: 1,200
WATTS VALLEY ROAD
FairOver: FRIANT-KERN CANAL
1.1 MI E OF RIVERBEND, Fresno, CA
Built 1947 Load: 7.8 t ADT: 500
E CLAYTON AVE
FairOver: TRAVERS CREEK
0.29 MI. EAST OF ALTA AVE, Fresno, CA
Built 1941 Load: 7.8 t ADT: 200
S CLOVIS AVE
FairOver: LIBERTY DITCH
1.0 MI SOUTH OF DAVIS AVE, Fresno, CA
Built 1942 Load: 9.7 t ADT: 300
STATE ROUTE 168
FairOver: TAMARACK CREEK
06-FRE-168-58.67, Fresno, CA
Built 1955 Load: 10.4 t ADT: 1,300
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: WEST KAISER CREEK
07S05-15.4, Fresno, CA
Built 1961 Load: 10.7 t ADT: 50
SR 180 (KINGS CYN)
FairOver: FRIANT-KERN CANAL
06-FRE-180-79.30, Fresno, CA
Built 1947 Load: 11.0 t ADT: 4,375
N DEL REY AVE
FairOver: FRESNO CANAL
0.5 MI SOUTH OF MCKINLEY, Fresno, CA
Built 1939 Load: 11.0 t ADT: 700
N VIAU AVE
FairOver: FRESNO CANAL
0.3 MI NORTH OF BELMONT, Fresno, CA
Built 1925 Load: 12.3 t ADT: 250
W MT WHITNEY AVE
FairOver: FRESNO SLOUGH
0.8 MI E OF DICKENSON AVE, Fresno, CA
Built 1955 Load: 13.3 t ADT: 2,700
S HILLS VALLEY RD
FairOver: FRIANT-KERN CANAL
0.2 MI SOUTH OF PARK BLVD, Fresno, CA
Built 1947 Load: 13.6 t ADT: 5,835
N FULTON AVE
FairOver: DRY CREEK CANAL
AT DUDLEY AVE, Fresno, CA
Built 1911 Load: 13.9 t ADT: 7,818
PORTER AVE
FairOver: WAHTOKE CREEK
1.8 MILES NORTH OF SR 180, Fresno, CA
Built 1949 Load: 13.9 t ADT: 200
S TIBURCIO AVE
FairOver: GRANT CANAL
0.18 MI S/O MT WHITNEY AV, Fresno, CA
Built 1937 Load: 14.3 t ADT: 210
PINE FLAT DAM
FairOver: KINGS RIVER D/S OF DAM
27 MI EAST OF FRESNO, Fresno, CA
Built 1956 Load: 14.3 t ADT: 175
N. BLACKSTONE AVE
FairOver: DRY CREEK CANAL
NEAR E. OLIVE AVE, Fresno, CA
Built 1941 Load: 14.9 t ADT: 4,000
S COVE AVE
FairOver: FRIANT-KERN CANAL
0.85 MI N/O AMERICAN AVE, Fresno, CA
Built 1947 Load: 14.9 t ADT: 1,000
N RIVERBEND AVE
FairOver: ENTERPRISE CANAL
1 MI NORTH OF BELMONT AVE, Fresno, CA
Built 1952 Load: 15.2 t ADT: 850
LOS GATOS ROAD
FairOver: LOS GATOS CREEK
14.9 MI W OF DERRICK BL, Fresno, CA
Built 1948 Load: 15.2 t ADT: 100
S WALNUT AVE
FairOver: LIBERTY DITCH
0.2 MI N OF ELKHORN AVE, Fresno, CA
Built 1950 Load: 15.6 t ADT: 125
E. OLIVE AVE
FairOver: DRY CREEK CANAL
NEAR N. BLACKSTONE AVE, Fresno, CA
Built 1941 Load: 15.6 t ADT: 5,000
WINDING ROAD
FairOver: NUTMEG CREEK
10S69-12.4, Fresno, CA
Built 1967 Load: 15.6 t ADT: 50
STATE ROUTE 168
FairOver: RANCHERIA CREEK
06-FRE-168-65.74, Fresno, CA
Built 1955 Load: 15.9 t ADT: 1,300
E MANNING AVE
FairOver: FOWLER SWITCH CANAL
1.0 MI W OF MCCALL AVE, Fresno, CA
Built 1938 Load: 16.2 t ADT: 4,200
S GOLDEN STATE BL
FairOver: NORTH AVE & BNSF RY
0.25 MI E OF S CEDAR AVE, Fresno, CA
Built 1936 Load: 16.2 t ADT: 5,410
S ELM AVE
FairOver: MURPHY SLOUGH
2 MI SOUTH OF ELKHORN AVE, Fresno, CA
Built 1922 Load: 16.2 t ADT: 340
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