Total bridges
168
Public highway bridges in Kings County
County profile · official public datasets
Kings County, CA
168 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.5% rated Good, 53.6% Fair, 6% Poor.
- 168
- Public bridges
- 40.5%
- Good condition
- 6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Kings County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 36%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 6%
- Poor-condition share
- 168
- public highway bridges
- 1968
- 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.
Kings County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Kings County ranks #21 of 58 California counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6%). Kings County, California contains 168 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.5% are rated “Good,” 53.6% “Fair,” and 6% “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
40.5%
68 of 168 rated 7-9
Fair condition
53.6%
90 of 168 rated 5-6
Poor condition
6%
10 of 168 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#21 of 58
Among California counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 168 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 40.5% (68)
Fair 53.6% (90)
Poor 6% (10)
Kings County's Poor-condition bridges carry 39,340 vehicle crossings a day
That is 5.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 3,934 crossings a day against 4,915 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 168 of 168 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
73.8% of Kings County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
124 of the 168 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 40.5% 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 52.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
STATE ROUTE 198 over BNSF RY & AMTRAK, built 1967, carries 20,500 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 10-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 39,340 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Kings County's bridges were built
168 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 7
1910–1919
7 bridges
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s 8
1940–1949
8 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
30 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
58 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
29 bridges
- 1980s 5
1980–1989
5 bridges
- 1990s 16
1990–1999
16 bridges
- 2000s 3
2000–2009
3 bridges
- 2010s 3
2010–2019
3 bridges
- 2020s 6
2020–2029
6 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 58 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 34.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1968) matches the California average (1970).
How Kings County compares with California's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 California counties nearest Kings County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1968 against a peer-group mean of 1967 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 57 California counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Dorado County | 192 | 46.9% | 46.9% | 6.3% | 1975 |
| Santa Cruz County | 192 | 40.1% | 42.2% | 17.7% | 1963 |
| Kings County (this page) | 168 | 40.5% | 53.6% | 6% | 1968 |
| Plumas County | 165 | 26.7% | 69.1% | 4.2% | 1965 |
| Napa County | 158 | 45.6% | 50% | 4.4% | 1961 |
| San Francisco County | 143 | 34.3% | 51% | 14.7% | 1969 |
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 Kings 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 Kings County, both outside California so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside CA (168 bridges here).
- Wilcox County, AL · 168 bridges
- Carroll County, GA · 168 bridges
- Clayton County, GA · 168 bridges
- Troup County, GA · 168 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside CA (1968 here).
- Montgomery County, PA · avg 1968 · 828 bridges
- Providence County, RI · avg 1968 · 476 bridges
- Delaware County, PA · avg 1968 · 387 bridges
- Genesee County, MI · avg 1968 · 371 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (68)
13TH AVE
GoodOver: LAST CHANCE DITCH
0.3 MI N ELDER AVE, Kings, CA
Built 1988 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,167
REDDING AVE
GoodOver: LIBERTY FARMS E CANAL
AT 10TH AVE, Kings, CA
Built 1974 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 650
19TH AVE
GoodOver: TULARE LAKE CANAL
0.45 MI S/O MEDFORD AVE, Kings, CA
Built 2005 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 250
NEVADA AVENUE
GoodOver: NEVADA AVENUE
1.3 MI W/O SR 43, Kings, CA
Built 1994 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 45
EXCELSIOR AVE
GoodOver: PEOPLES DITCH
E/O 8TH AVE, Kings, CA
Built 2020 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 700
DOVER AVE
GoodOver: FUTURE CA HIGHSPEED RAIL
EAST OF S 8TH AVE, Kings, CA
Built 2022 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,000
IDAHO AVE
GoodOver: FUTURE CA HIGHSPEED RAIL
E OF RTE 43 E OF 8TH AVE, Kings, CA
Built 2022 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 2,000
KENT AVENUE
GoodOver: FUTURE CA HIGHSPEED RAIL
W OF STATE RTE 43 8 AVE, Kings, CA
Built 2022 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,000
KANSAS AVENUE
GoodOver: FUTURE CA HIGHSPEED RAIL
WEST OF STATE ROUTE 43, Kings, CA
Built 2022 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,000
JACKSON AVENUE
GoodOver: FUTURE CA HIGHSPEED RAIL
E OF STATE RTE 43 8 AVE, Kings, CA
Built 2022 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 2,000
WHITLEY AVE
GoodOver: EAST BRANCH CROSS CREEK
2.0 MI EAST OF 10TH AVE, Kings, CA
Built 1970 Load: 33.4 t ADT: 2,268
GRANGEVILLE BL
GoodOver: KINGS RIVER
0.5 MI W OF 24TH AVE, Kings, CA
Built 1959 Load: 33.4 t ADT: 3,260
Avenal Cutoff Road
GoodOver: San Luis Canal
2.7 MI NE OF I-5, Kings, CA
Built 1968 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 1,000
UTICA AVE OC
GoodOver: INTERSTATE 5
06-KIN-005-12.36, Kings, CA
Built 1971 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 300
STATE ROUTE 41
GoodOver: EMPIRE # 2 CANAL
06-KIN-041-33.79, Kings, CA
Built 1948 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 6,560
JACKSON AVE
GoodOver: CROSS CREEK
0.9 MI W OF 5TH AVE, Kings, CA
Built 1975 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 450
STATE ROUTE 41
GoodOver: AVENAL CREEK
06-KIN-041-3.75, Kings, CA
Built 2008 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 6,710
FLINT AVE
GoodOver: LOWER KINGS RIVER DITCH
0.5 MI E OF 16TH AVE, Kings, CA
Built 1955 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 650
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