Total bridges
60
Public highway bridges in Hernando County
County profile · official public datasets
Hernando County, FL
60 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 83.3% rated Good, 16.7% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 60
- Public bridges
- 83.3%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Hernando County posts a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- Top 10%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 60
- 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.
Hernando County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hernando County ranks #7 of 67 Florida counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Hernando County, Florida contains 60 public highway bridges. Roughly 83.3% are rated “Good,” 16.7% “Fair,” and 0% “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
83.3%
50 of 60 rated 7-9
Fair condition
16.7%
10 of 60 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 60 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#7 of 67
Among Florida counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 60 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 83.3% (50)
Fair 16.7% (10)
Poor 0% (0)
30% of Hernando County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
18 of the 60 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 83.3% 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 Hernando County's bridges were built
60 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 3
1930–1939
3 bridges
- 1950s 3
1950–1959
3 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
10 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
6 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
8 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
14 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
12 bridges
- 2010s 2
2010–2019
2 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 14 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1985) matches the Florida average (1983).
How Hernando County compares with Florida's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Florida counties nearest Hernando County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1985 against a peer-group mean of 1970 is 15 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 66 Florida counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highlands County | 63 | 47.6% | 50.8% | 1.6% | 1972 |
| Gulf County | 62 | 19.4% | 67.7% | 12.9% | 1973 |
| Hamilton County | 60 | 35% | 63.3% | 1.7% | 1968 |
| Madison County | 60 | 41.7% | 55% | 3.3% | 1968 |
| Hernando County (this page) | 60 | 83.3% | 16.7% | 0% | 1985 |
| Glades County | 59 | 40.7% | 59.3% | 0% | 1971 |
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 Hernando 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 Hernando County, both outside Florida so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside FL (60 bridges here).
- Heard County, GA · 60 bridges
- Jenkins County, GA · 60 bridges
- Oconee County, GA · 60 bridges
- Woodford County, KY · 60 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.
Poor-condition bridges (0)
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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.