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Okeechobee County, FL

67 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 46.3% rated Good, 53.7% Fair, 0% Poor.

67
Public bridges: 46.3%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Okeechobee County pairs a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 9%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 67
public highway bridges: 1973
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.

Okeechobee County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Okeechobee County ranks #6 of 67 Florida counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Okeechobee County, Florida contains 67 public highway bridges. Roughly 46.3% are rated “Good,” 53.7% “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.

Total bridges

Public highway bridges in Okeechobee County

Good condition

46.3%

31 of 67 rated 7-9

Fair condition

53.7%

36 of 67 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 67 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#6 of 67

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

Condition distribution

Share of 67 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

46.3% (31)

Fair

53.7% (36)

Poor

0% (0)

67.2% of Okeechobee County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

45 of the 67 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 46.3% 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.

1940s

8
1950s

15
1960s

14
1970s

9
1980s

4
1990s

6
2000s

7
2010s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 15 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1973, 10 years older than the Florida average of 1983.

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

The 5 Florida counties nearest Okeechobee 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 1973 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Okeechobee County and the 5 Florida counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Levy County	73	39.7%	57.5%	2.7%	1973
Putnam County	73	45.2%	52.1%	2.7%	1979
Jefferson County	70	30%	67.1%	2.9%	1976
Okeechobee County (this page)	67	46.3%	53.7%	0%	1973
Highlands County	63	47.6%	50.8%	1.6%	1972
Gulf County	62	19.4%	67.7%	12.9%	1973

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside FL (67 bridges here).

Stephens County, GA · 67 bridges
Garrard County, KY · 67 bridges
Emmons County, ND · 67 bridges
Sequatchie County, TN · 67 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside FL (1973 here).

Jefferson County, AL · avg 1973 · 1,068 bridges
Erie County, NY · avg 1973 · 906 bridges
Davidson County, TN · avg 1973 · 832 bridges
Lancaster County, PA · avg 1973 · 801 bridges

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

All 67 Good 31 Fair 36 Poor 0

Good-condition bridges (31)

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Okeechobee County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

67.2% of Okeechobee County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Okeechobee 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 (31)

US-98/US-441SR700

SE 34TH AVE.

SR-70

CR-68

US-98/US-441SR-700

SR91 SB TPK 182.3

SR91 NB TPK 182.3

G36 ACCESS BRIDGE

SW 28TH ST WOLF RD

SR-70 WB

US-441 (SR-15)

SR-70 EB

SR-70 EB

SR-70 WB

SR91 SB TPK 184.6

SR91 NB TPK 184.6

SR-710

SR-710

CR-68

SE 27TH WAY

CR-724 NW 240TH ST

US-98 (SR-700)

US-98 (SR-700)

SR-78

SR-710

SR91 SB TPK 186.4

SR91 NB TPK 186.4

NE 9TH ST

SR-70 EB

SE 43RD AVE.

SR-70 WB

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