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Bullitt County, KY

99 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 10.1% rated Good, 81.8% Fair, 8.1% Poor.

99
Public bridges: 10.1%
Good condition: 8.1%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Bullitt County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

76th
of 120 on Poor share: 8.1%
Poor-condition share: 99
public highway bridges: 1980
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.

Bullitt County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bullitt County ranks #76 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 8.1%). Bullitt County, Kentucky contains 99 public highway bridges. Roughly 10.1% are rated “Good,” 81.8% “Fair,” and 8.1% “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 Bullitt County

Good condition

10.1%

10 of 99 rated 7-9

Fair condition

81.8%

81 of 99 rated 5-6

Poor condition

8.1%

8 of 99 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#76 of 120

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

Condition distribution

Share of 99 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

10.1% (10)

Fair

81.8% (81)

Poor

8.1% (8)

Bullitt County's Poor-condition bridges carry 15,417 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 8.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,927 crossings a day against 3,006 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 99 of 99 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

31.3% of Bullitt County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

31 of the 99 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 10.1% 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 32.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

KY 1526 over FLOYDS FORK, built 1970, carries 4,945 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 8-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 15,417 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

3
1930s

5
1940s

4
1950s

13
1960s

4
1970s

7
1980s

28
1990s

14
2000s

7
2010s

13
2020s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 28 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 28.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1980) matches the Kentucky average (1978).

How Bullitt County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Bullitt County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 8.1% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1980 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 119 Kentucky counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Bullitt County and the 5 Kentucky counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Lawrence County	103	19.4%	72.8%	7.8%	1983
Johnson County	99	27.3%	69.7%	3%	1983
Bullitt County (this page)	99	10.1%	81.8%	8.1%	1980
Butler County	98	9.2%	81.6%	9.2%	1971
Mason County	97	33%	58.8%	8.2%	1980
Fulton County	95	26.3%	62.1%	11.6%	1965

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside KY (99 bridges here).

Washington County, FL · 99 bridges
Crisp County, GA · 99 bridges
Harris County, GA · 99 bridges
Newton County, GA · 99 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside KY (1980 here).

Tulsa County, OK · avg 1980 · 1,135 bridges
Miami-Dade County, FL · avg 1980 · 1,057 bridges
Pulaski County, AR · avg 1980 · 721 bridges
McLennan County, TX · avg 1980 · 714 bridges

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

All 99 Good 10 Fair 81 Poor 8

Fair-condition bridges (81)

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Bullitt County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Bullitt County's Poor-condition bridges carry 15,417 vehicle crossings a day

31.3% of Bullitt County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 32.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Bullitt County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Fair-condition bridges (81)

KY 251

KY 1116

KY 44

KY 480

KY 1450

I-65

I-65 & KY 61

KY 251

KY 251

KY 480

KY 1450

HAPPY HOLLOW RD

PUMPKIN RD

KY 61 NB

KY 44

LICK CREEK RD

I-65 SB

I-65 NB

KY 733

COLLINGS HILL RD

KY 44

KY 61

I-65

KY 245

I-65 SB

I-65 NB

PIONEER DR

KY 61

KY 61

PINE TAVERN RD

KY 44

KY 44

KY 1116

KY 1442

STAVE MILL RD

I-65 NB

I-65 SB

I-65

I-65 SB

I-65 NB

OLD KY 61

I-65

KY 733

KY 2723

PIONEER DR

KY 44

BEARCAMP RD

KY 1442

KY 61

BEARCAMP RD

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