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Lee County, FL

391 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 75.4% rated Good, 23.8% Fair, 0.8% Poor.

391
Public bridges: 75.4%
Good condition: 0.8%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Lee County posts a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

Top 25%
lowest Poor share in state: 0.8%
Poor-condition share: 391
public highway bridges: 1982
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.

Lee County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lee County ranks #17 of 67 Florida counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.8%). Lee County, Florida contains 391 public highway bridges. Roughly 75.4% are rated “Good,” 23.8% “Fair,” and 0.8% “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.

Total bridges

391

Public highway bridges in Lee County

Good condition

75.4%

295 of 391 rated 7-9

Fair condition

23.8%

93 of 391 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0.8%

3 of 391 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#17 of 67

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

Condition distribution

Share of 391 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

75.4% (295)

Fair

23.8% (93)

Poor

0.8% (3)

Lee County's Poor-condition bridges carry 58,400 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry the same share of traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 19,467 crossings a day against 18,433 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 391 of 391 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

33.8% of Lee County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

132 of the 391 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 75.4% 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 73.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

DEL PRADO BLVD NB over LIDO CANAL, built 1965, carries 43,000 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 3-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 58,400 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

1
1940s

3
1950s

13
1960s

50
1970s

132
1980s

68
1990s

64
2000s

35
2010s

22
2020s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 132 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 33.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1982) matches the Florida average (1983).

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

The 5 Florida counties nearest Lee County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.8% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1982 against a peer-group mean of 1982 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Lee County and the 5 Florida counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Pinellas County	435	63.7%	34.5%	1.8%	1983
Lee County (this page)	391	75.4%	23.8%	0.8%	1982
Collier County	370	73.2%	24.9%	1.9%	1981
Polk County	360	55.3%	44.7%	0%	1979
Sarasota County	298	57.7%	41.6%	0.7%	1982
Osceola County	255	62.4%	37.6%	0%	1985

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside FL (391 bridges here).

Arapahoe County, CO · 391 bridges
Kingman County, KS · 391 bridges
Wayne County, OH · 391 bridges
DeKalb County, GA · 392 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside FL (1982 here).

Oklahoma County, OK · avg 1982 · 1,216 bridges
Jackson County, MO · avg 1982 · 930 bridges
Milwaukee County, WI · avg 1982 · 893 bridges
Champaign County, IL · avg 1982 · 727 bridges

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

All 391 Good 295 Fair 93 Poor 3

Good-condition bridges (295)

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Lee County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Lee County's Poor-condition bridges carry 58,400 vehicle crossings a day

33.8% of Lee County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 73.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Lee 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

Good-condition bridges (295)

CR-78

DRIFTWOOD DR

NICHOLAS PKWY

EAST TERRY STREET

CULTURAL PARK BLVD

CR-884

BONITA GRAND DR

SUMMERLIN RD/CR869

CR-884 EB

ORTIZ AVENUE

ORANGE RIVER BLVD

CR865 (BONITA BCH)

OLD BURNT ST RD SB

CR-767

I-75 SB (SR-93)

I-75 SB (SR-93)

OLD 41 RD (CR 887)

SW 26TH STREET

COUNTRY CLUB BLVD.

OLD BURNT ST RD NB

SR-78(BAYSHORE RD)

SR-739-METRO PKW

CR-765 NB

GRAND AVENUE

I-75 SB

I-75 NB

GRANT BLVD.

I-75 NB (SR-93)

SR-80 EB

SR-739 (METRO PKWY

SR 80(PALM BCH BL)

SANIBEL CAPTIVA RD

SR-78(BAYSHORE RD)

SANDS BLVD. (SB)

OLD BURNT ST RD SB

OLD BURNT STORE RD

N ENTR TO S PLAZA

CONNIE AVE

BOY SCOUT ROAD

I-75 SB (SR-93)

I-75 NB (SR-93)

MARSH AVENUE

SWFIA TERMINAL ACC

SW 11TH AVE.

DANIELS PKWY WB

SW 12TH AVE. NB

PRITCHETT PARKWAY

LITTLETON ROAD

CR869/SUMMERLIN RD

SW 12 AVE SB

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