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Woodford County, KY

60 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 26.7% rated Good, 65% Fair, 8.3% Poor.

60
Public bridges: 26.7%
Good condition: 8.3%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

79th
of 120 on Poor share: 8.3%
Poor-condition share: 60
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.

Woodford County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Woodford County ranks #79 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 8.3%). Woodford County, Kentucky contains 60 public highway bridges. Roughly 26.7% are rated “Good,” 65% “Fair,” and 8.3% “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 Woodford County

Good condition

26.7%

16 of 60 rated 7-9

Fair condition

65%

39 of 60 rated 5-6

Poor condition

8.3%

5 of 60 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#79 of 120

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

Condition distribution

Share of 60 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

26.7% (16)

Fair

65% (39)

Poor

8.3% (5)

Woodford County's Poor-condition bridges carry 3,951 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 8.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 790 crossings a day against 4,086 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 60 of 60 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

65% of Woodford County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

39 of the 60 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 26.7% 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 55.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

KY-1681 over SOUTH ELKHORN CREEK, built 1949, carries 2,188 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 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 3,951 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1930s

1
1940s

4
1950s

9
1960s

9
1970s

16
1980s

6
1990s

3
2000s

7
2010s

5

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 16 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 26.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1976) matches the Kentucky average (1978).

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

The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Woodford County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 8.3% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Woodford County and the 5 Kentucky counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Woodford County (this page)	60	26.7%	65%	8.3%	1976
Jessamine County	58	24.1%	74.1%	1.7%	1980
Spencer County	58	15.5%	75.9%	8.6%	1981
Green County	57	59.6%	28.1%	12.3%	1979
Hart County	57	43.9%	54.4%	1.8%	1980
Estill County	56	37.5%	51.8%	10.7%	1977

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside KY (60 bridges here).

Hamilton County, FL · 60 bridges
Hernando County, FL · 60 bridges
Madison County, FL · 60 bridges
Heard County, GA · 60 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 60 Good 16 Fair 39 Poor 5

Fair-condition bridges (39)

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Woodford County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Woodford County's Poor-condition bridges carry 3,951 vehicle crossings a day

65% of Woodford County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 55.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Woodford 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 (39)

KY-1685

HIFNER RD

PAYNES DEPOT RD

MOORES MILL RD

US-62

KY-1685

KY-341

KY-1964

KY-1659

I-64

I-64

DUCKERS RD

SCOTTS FERRY RD

KY-1659

HUNTERTOWN RD

KY-1965

I-64 (WEST)

I-64 (EAST)

I-64 (WEST)

I-64 (EAST)

KY-1659

SCOTTS FERRY RD

KIDDS MILL RD

KY-33

KY-1659

CRAIGS CREEK RD

KY-169

CRAIGS CREEK RD

SHRYOCKS FERRY RD

KY-1681

BROWNS MILL RD

KY-169

BG PKWY - 9002

KY-33

KY-33

I-64

KY-1659

BG-9002

DUCKERS RD

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