Total bridges
221
Public highway bridges in Beauregard County
County profile · official public datasets
Beauregard County, LA
221 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 13.6% rated Good, 78.3% Fair, 8.1% Poor.
- 221
- Public bridges
- 13.6%
- Good condition
- 8.1%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Beauregard County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 36%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 8.1%
- Poor-condition share
- 221
- 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.
Beauregard County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Beauregard County ranks #23 of 64 Louisiana counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 8.1%). Beauregard County, Louisiana contains 221 public highway bridges. Roughly 13.6% are rated “Good,” 78.3% “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.
Good condition
13.6%
30 of 221 rated 7-9
Fair condition
78.3%
173 of 221 rated 5-6
Poor condition
8.1%
18 of 221 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#23 of 64
Among Louisiana counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 221 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 13.6% (30)
Fair 78.3% (173)
Poor 8.1% (18)
Beauregard County's Poor-condition bridges carry 40,371 vehicle crossings a day
That is 7.7% 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 2,243 crossings a day against 2,300 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 221 of 221 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
48.9% of Beauregard County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
108 of the 221 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 13.6% 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 44.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US0190 over DRAIN, built 1964, carries 18,056 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 18-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 40,371 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Beauregard County's bridges were built
221 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 7
1930–1939
7 bridges
- 1940s 3
1940–1949
3 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
42 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
46 bridges
- 1970s 18
1970–1979
18 bridges
- 1980s 18
1980–1989
18 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
28 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
44 bridges
- 2010s 10
2010–2019
10 bridges
- 2020s 5
2020–2029
5 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 46 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 Louisiana average (1982).
How Beauregard County compares with Louisiana's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Louisiana counties nearest Beauregard County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 8.1% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1982 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 63 Louisiana counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauregard County (this page) | 221 | 13.6% | 78.3% | 8.1% | 1979 |
| Winn County | 220 | 55.5% | 28.2% | 16.4% | 1987 |
| Ascension County | 216 | 41.2% | 45.8% | 13% | 1981 |
| Terrebonne County | 215 | 42.3% | 47% | 10.7% | 1983 |
| Grant County | 209 | 41.6% | 42.6% | 15.8% | 1982 |
| Richland County | 207 | 21.3% | 67.6% | 11.1% | 1979 |
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 Beauregard 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 Beauregard County, both outside Louisiana so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside LA (221 bridges here).
- Polk County, AR · 221 bridges
- Daviess County, IN · 221 bridges
- Crawford County, OH · 221 bridges
- Union County, OH · 221 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside LA (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 (18)
DRU RD
PoorOver: COLE CREEK
0.2 MI N OF SUSIE ALSTON, Beauregard, LA
Built 2003 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 2
LOFTIN RD
PoorOver: PALMETTO CREEK
0.2 MI. N OF SAND BED RD, Beauregard, LA
Built 1990 Load: 9.1 t ADT: 125
LA0399
PoorOver: HORSE BRANCH
0.2 MI N OF LA 112, Beauregard, LA
Built 1975 Load: 15.6 t ADT: 957
LA0110
PoorOver: CREEK
4.3 MI W of LA 27, Beauregard, LA
Built 1982 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 1,947
LA0110
PoorOver: DRAIN
1.2 MI S of US 190, Beauregard, LA
Built 1968 Load: 18.8 t ADT: 1,947
LA0394
PoorOver: Woodard Branch
0.9 MI. E OF US 171, Beauregard, LA
Built 1958 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 490
LA0389
PoorOver: BRUSHY CREEK
8.8 MI W of LA 109, Beauregard, LA
Built 1967 Load: 26.1 t ADT: 442
HOPEWELL CROSSING
PoorOver: BUNDICK CREEK
1.8 MI N of LA 394, Beauregard, LA
Built 1984 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 825
LA0113
PoorOver: SUGAR CREEK
0.7 MI. N OF INT LA112, Beauregard, LA
Built 1972 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 709
LA0109
PoorOver: DRAIN
0.2 MI. SW of LA 27, Beauregard, LA
Built 1963 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 1,749
LA0109
PoorOver: DRAIN
2.3 MI W OF LA 27, Beauregard, LA
Built 1963 Load: 58.0 t ADT: 674
US0190
PoorOver: DRAIN
4.3 MI E. OF LA 111, Beauregard, LA
Built 1964 Load: 61.2 t ADT: 4,254
US0190
PoorOver: DRAIN
1.3 MI WEST OF LA 3226, Beauregard, LA
Built 1964 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 3,187
US0190
PoorOver: DRAIN
2.0 MI EAST OF LA 3226, Beauregard, LA
Built 1964 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 18,056
LA0112
PoorOver: DRAIN
2.3 MI E OF LA 113, Beauregard, LA
Built 1962 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 759
LA0109
PoorOver: HURRICANE CREEK
5.0 MI SW OF LA 389, Beauregard, LA
Built 1962 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 750
LA0109
PoorOver: DRAIN
2.0 MI N OF LA 389, Beauregard, LA
Built 1963 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 1,749
LA0109
PoorOver: DRAIN
3.3 MI N OF LA 389, Beauregard, LA
Built 1963 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 1,749
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