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Okaloosa County, FL

218 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 38.1% rated Good, 56.4% Fair, 5.5% Poor.

218
Public bridges: 38.1%
Good condition: 5.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Okaloosa County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

52nd
of 67 on Poor share: 5.5%
Poor-condition share: 218
public highway bridges: 1989
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.

Okaloosa County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Okaloosa County ranks #52 of 67 Florida counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.5%). Okaloosa County, Florida contains 218 public highway bridges. Roughly 38.1% are rated “Good,” 56.4% “Fair,” and 5.5% “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

218

Public highway bridges in Okaloosa County

Good condition

38.1%

83 of 218 rated 7-9

Fair condition

56.4%

123 of 218 rated 5-6

Poor condition

5.5%

12 of 218 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#52 of 67

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

Condition distribution

Share of 218 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

38.1% (83)

Fair

56.4% (123)

Poor

5.5% (12)

Okaloosa County's Poor-condition bridges carry 77,565 vehicle crossings a day

That is 4.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 6,464 crossings a day against 6,335 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 218 of 218 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

35.3% of Okaloosa County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

77 of the 218 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 38.1% 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 63.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

US98 SR30 over ICWW & Brooks ST., built 1964, carries 49,500 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 12-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 77,565 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1930s

7
1940s

4
1950s

4
1960s

39
1970s

33
1980s

12
1990s

31
2000s

30
2010s

50
2020s

8

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 50 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1989, 6 years newer than the Florida average of 1983.

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

The 5 Florida counties nearest Okaloosa County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.5% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1989 against a peer-group mean of 1985 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Okaloosa County and the 5 Florida counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Brevard County	249	51.4%	47.8%	0.8%	1981
Volusia County	238	58.8%	39.1%	2.1%	1984
Walton County	229	36.2%	57.6%	6.1%	1988
Okaloosa County (this page)	218	38.1%	56.4%	5.5%	1989
Charlotte County	211	66.4%	33.6%	0%	1987
Santa Rosa County	192	29.2%	65.6%	5.2%	1986

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside FL (218 bridges here).

Yellow Medicine County, MN · 218 bridges
Fillmore County, NE · 218 bridges
Newberry County, SC · 218 bridges
McNairy County, TN · 218 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside FL (1989 here).

Harris County, TX · avg 1989 · 4,029 bridges
Mecklenburg County, NC · avg 1989 · 746 bridges
Buffalo County, NE · avg 1989 · 459 bridges
Brazos County, TX · avg 1989 · 370 bridges

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

All 218 Good 83 Fair 123 Poor 12

Good-condition bridges (83)

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Okaloosa County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Okaloosa County's Poor-condition bridges carry 77,565 vehicle crossings a day

35.3% of Okaloosa County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 63.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Okaloosa 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 (83)

SR85

SR85

Charles Booker Rd

Rocky Bayou Dr

Access Rd

Access Rd

Sioux Circle

Old River Road

SR293

SR189

CR 2

Robinson Road

Bends Creek

WHITBECK STREET

RANGE ROAD 221

RANGE ROAD 221

RANGE ROAD 233

RANGE ROAD 603

SR293

SR123

Okaloosa Lane

SR293

SR293

Wilkerson Bluff Rd

US90 SR10

SR123

SR123

Old River Road

SR123

Plympton Road

SR293

SR293

SR293

SR4

Ferry Road N. E.

US98 SR30

SR293

Ezra Cook Road

SR293

Wilkerson Bluff Rd

SR293

SR293

SR293

CR 2

SR397

Bay Shore Drive

RANGE ROAD 211

RANGE ROAD 211

RANGE ROAD 211

RANGE ROAD 211

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