Total bridges
48
Public highway bridges in Wakulla County
County profile · official public datasets
Wakulla County, FL
48 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 37.5% rated Good, 50% Fair, 12.5% Poor.
- 48
- Public bridges
- 37.5%
- Good condition
- 12.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Wakulla County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- 62nd
- of 67 on Poor share
- 12.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 48
- public highway bridges
- 1979
- 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.
Wakulla County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Wakulla County ranks #62 of 67 Florida counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 12.5%). Wakulla County, Florida contains 48 public highway bridges. Roughly 37.5% are rated “Good,” 50% “Fair,” and 12.5% “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.
Good condition
37.5%
18 of 48 rated 7-9
Fair condition
50%
24 of 48 rated 5-6
Poor condition
12.5%
6 of 48 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#62 of 67
Among Florida counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 48 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 37.5% (18)
Fair 50% (24)
Poor 12.5% (6)
Wakulla County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,820 vehicle crossings a day
That is 3.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 12.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 470 crossings a day against 2,281 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 47 of 48 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
41.7% of Wakulla County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
20 of the 48 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 37.5% 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 42.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
CR 61 over Wakulla River, built 1901, carries 1,200 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 6-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 2,820 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Wakulla County's bridges were built
48 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 2
1900–1909
2 bridges
- 1930s 2
1930–1939
2 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
4 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
10 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
5 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
4 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
5 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
8 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
5 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 10 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1979) matches the Florida average (1983).
How Wakulla County compares with Florida's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Florida counties nearest Wakulla County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 12.5% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 66 Florida counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeSoto County | 57 | 36.8% | 59.6% | 3.5% | 1979 |
| Dixie County | 55 | 45.5% | 45.5% | 9.1% | 1968 |
| Citrus County | 53 | 69.8% | 30.2% | 0% | 1987 |
| Calhoun County | 49 | 24.5% | 73.5% | 2% | 1971 |
| Wakulla County (this page) | 48 | 37.5% | 50% | 12.5% | 1979 |
| Franklin County | 43 | 7% | 51.2% | 41.9% | 1988 |
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 Wakulla 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 Wakulla County, both outside Florida so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside FL (48 bridges here).
- Evans County, GA · 48 bridges
- Owyhee County, ID · 48 bridges
- Carter County, MO · 48 bridges
- Judith Basin County, MT · 48 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside FL (1979 here).
- Pima County, AZ · avg 1979 · 1,150 bridges
- Jefferson County, KY · avg 1979 · 662 bridges
- Spartanburg County, SC · avg 1979 · 638 bridges
- McPherson County, KS · avg 1979 · 586 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (6)
MONKEY CREEK-Bridg
PoorOver: MONKEY CREEK
NATIONAL FOREST, Wakulla, FL
Built 1964 Load: 14.3 t ADT: 20
CR 372-Surf Road
PoorOver: Otter Creek
1.7 Miles North US98/SR30, Wakulla, FL
Built 1974 Load: 17.0 t ADT: 800
CR375/Smith Crk Rd
PoorOver: Sopchoppy River
0.7 Mile West of US 319, Wakulla, FL
Built 1940 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 650
Greenough Road
PoorOver: Mill Creek
0.4 Mi N Smith Creek Rd, Wakulla, FL
Built 2005 Load: 44.7 t ADT: 78
CR 61
PoorOver: Wakulla River
0.1 Miles South of SR 267, Wakulla, FL
Built 1901 Load: 52.6 t ADT: 1,200
CR 22-Rose Street
PoorOver: Sopchoppy River
0.65 Miles West of US 319, Wakulla, FL
Built 1968 Load: 57.2 t ADT: 72
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