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Hendry County, FL

87 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 66.7% rated Good, 29.9% Fair, 3.4% Poor.

87
Public bridges: 66.7%
Good condition: 3.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Hendry County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

43rd
of 67 on Poor share: 3.4%
Poor-condition share: 87
public highway bridges: 1985
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.

Hendry County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hendry County ranks #43 of 67 Florida counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.4%). Hendry County, Florida contains 87 public highway bridges. Roughly 66.7% are rated “Good,” 29.9% “Fair,” and 3.4% “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

Public highway bridges in Hendry County

Good condition

66.7%

58 of 87 rated 7-9

Fair condition

29.9%

26 of 87 rated 5-6

Poor condition

3.4%

3 of 87 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#43 of 67

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

Condition distribution

Share of 87 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

66.7% (58)

Fair

29.9% (26)

Poor

3.4% (3)

Hendry County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,900 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 967 crossings a day against 7,249 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 87 of 87 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

35.6% of Hendry County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

31 of the 87 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 66.7% 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 37.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

CR-78A over MARIAS SLOUGH, built 1991, carries 1,080 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 2,900 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1930s

1
1940s

1
1950s

24
1960s

3
1970s

4
1980s

13
1990s

9
2000s

11
2010s

17
2020s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 24 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1985) matches the Florida average (1983).

How Hendry County compares with Florida's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Florida counties nearest Hendry County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.4% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1985 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is 10 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Hendry County and the 5 Florida counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Baker County	93	26.9%	64.5%	8.6%	1966
Clay County	90	47.8%	48.9%	3.3%	1984
Taylor County	90	32.2%	58.9%	8.9%	1963
Hendry County (this page)	87	66.7%	29.9%	3.4%	1985
Hardee County	85	43.5%	52.9%	3.5%	1983
Marion County	78	52.6%	44.9%	2.6%	1979

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside FL (87 bridges here).

Modoc County, CA · 87 bridges
Adams County, ID · 87 bridges
Humboldt County, IA · 87 bridges
Rockcastle County, KY · 87 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside FL (1985 here).

Lancaster County, NE · avg 1985 · 661 bridges
Nueces County, TX · avg 1985 · 528 bridges
Grayson County, TX · avg 1985 · 513 bridges
Douglas County, NE · avg 1985 · 509 bridges

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

All 87 Good 58 Fair 26 Poor 3

Fair-condition bridges (26)

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Hendry County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Hendry County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,900 vehicle crossings a day

35.6% of Hendry County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 37.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Hendry County compares with Florida's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Fair-condition bridges (26)

CR78A/FT DENAUD RD

FORT DENAUD BR WAY

POLLYWOG POINT

CR-833

CR-833

CR-833

CR-833

CR-833

CR833

CR-846

CR-846

CR-78 (N RIVER RD)

DEER FENCE BRDG RD

SR-29

CR-78A (FT DENAUD)

CR-835

CR-835

ROGER ROAD

IRR BIA RTE 182

COUNTY ROAD 832

CR-833

SR 29 (BRIDGE ST)

CR-835

CR-835

CR-835

COUNTY ROAD 78A

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