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Fleming County, KY

117 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 32.5% rated Good, 62.4% Fair, 5.1% Poor.

117
Public bridges: 32.5%
Good condition: 5.1%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Fleming County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

Top 33%
lowest Poor share in state: 5.1%
Poor-condition share: 117
public highway bridges: 1976
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.

Fleming County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Fleming County ranks #39 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.1%). Fleming County, Kentucky contains 117 public highway bridges. Roughly 32.5% are rated “Good,” 62.4% “Fair,” and 5.1% “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

117

Public highway bridges in Fleming County

Good condition

32.5%

38 of 117 rated 7-9

Fair condition

62.4%

73 of 117 rated 5-6

Poor condition

5.1%

6 of 117 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#39 of 120

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

Condition distribution

Share of 117 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

32.5% (38)

Fair

62.4% (73)

Poor

5.1% (6)

Fleming County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,188 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 198 crossings a day against 706 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 117 of 117 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

46.2% of Fleming County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

54 of the 117 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 32.5% 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 35.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

KY-697 over ALLISON CREEK, built 1982, carries 423 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 1,188 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

1
1900s

1
1920s

5
1930s

12
1950s

18
1960s

10
1970s

12
1980s

7
1990s

26
2000s

12
2010s

11
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 26 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1976) matches the Kentucky average (1978).

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

The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Fleming County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.1% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 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 Fleming County and the 5 Kentucky counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Grayson County	119	39.5%	54.6%	5.9%	1972
Clark County	117	27.4%	60.7%	12%	1976
Franklin County	117	13.7%	75.2%	11.1%	1980
Fleming County (this page)	117	32.5%	62.4%	5.1%	1976
Caldwell County	116	12.1%	81%	6.9%	1972
Morgan County	114	50.9%	46.5%	2.6%	1981

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside KY (117 bridges here).

Franklin County, GA · 117 bridges
Polk County, GA · 117 bridges
Benton County, MN · 117 bridges
Lake County, MT · 117 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside KY (1976 here).

Marion County, IN · avg 1976 · 958 bridges
Mohave County, AZ · avg 1976 · 641 bridges
Comanche County, OK · avg 1976 · 593 bridges
Prince George's County, MD · avg 1976 · 576 bridges

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

All 117 Good 38 Fair 73 Poor 6

Fair-condition bridges (73)

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Fleming County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Fleming County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,188 vehicle crossings a day

46.2% of Fleming County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 35.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Fleming 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 (73)

KY-3110

CR-1229

CR 1136

JOHNSON CRK RD

KY-989

CR-1020 Dixon Rd.

KY-32

KY-1013

KY-11X

KY 32X

KY-559

KY-697

KY-1013

KY-1515

KY-1325

KY-1325

KY-1013

KY-1722

KY-3301

KY-1515

KY-32

CR 1039

KY-111

KY-111

CR 1015 (RYAN RD)

KY-32

KY-559

KY-559

KY-32

CRAINTOWN RD

CARPENTER RD

SUGAR TREE RD

MILL CRK RD

KY-32

KY-165

KY-32X

MOUNT GILEAD RD

CREEK RD

CS-1108

KY 11

WILSON RUN RD

MADDOX PIKE

CONNECTOR RD

WOOLEY RD

KY-57

KY-158

KY-158

ky 1347

KY-170

STOCKTON RD

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