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Leflore County, MS

139 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.3% rated Good, 50.4% Fair, 9.4% Poor.

139
Public bridges: 40.3%
Good condition: 9.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Leflore County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

67th
of 82 on Poor share: 9.4%
Poor-condition share: 139
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.

Leflore County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Leflore County ranks #67 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 9.4%). Leflore County, Mississippi contains 139 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.3% are rated “Good,” 50.4% “Fair,” and 9.4% “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

139

Public highway bridges in Leflore County

Good condition

40.3%

56 of 139 rated 7-9

Fair condition

50.4%

70 of 139 rated 5-6

Poor condition

9.4%

13 of 139 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#67 of 82

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

Condition distribution

Share of 139 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

40.3% (56)

Fair

50.4% (70)

Poor

9.4% (13)

Leflore County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,400 vehicle crossings a day

That is 3.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 9.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 646 crossings a day against 1,488 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 139 of 139 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

48.9% of Leflore County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

68 of the 139 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 40.3% 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 23.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SR 8 over FIGHTING BAYOU, built 1953, carries 2,000 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 13-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 8,400 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

1
1930s

7
1940s

2
1950s

28
1960s

19
1970s

17
1980s

31
1990s

18
2000s

9
2010s

5
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 31 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1976, 10 years older than the Mississippi average of 1986.

How Leflore County compares with Mississippi's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Leflore County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 9.4% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1987 is 11 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 81 Mississippi counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Leflore County and the 5 Mississippi counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Tishomingo County	144	58.3%	37.5%	4.2%	1985
Jefferson Davis County	142	77.5%	19.7%	2.8%	1992
Tate County	139	39.6%	58.3%	2.2%	1992
Tippah County	139	60.4%	34.5%	5%	1989
Leflore County (this page)	139	40.3%	50.4%	9.4%	1976
Claiborne County	136	25%	72.8%	2.2%	1978

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside MS (139 bridges here).

Bulloch County, GA · 139 bridges
St. Helena County, LA · 139 bridges
Garrett County, MD · 139 bridges
Midland County, MI · 139 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside MS (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 139 Good 56 Fair 70 Poor 13

Good-condition bridges (56)

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Leflore County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Leflore County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,400 vehicle crossings a day

48.9% of Leflore County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 23.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Leflore County compares with Mississippi's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Good-condition bridges (56)

CO RD 432

CO RD 523

SR 8

SR 8

US 49E

US 49E

CO RD 524

CO RD 538

CO RD 318

MADISON STREET

CO RD 243

CO RD 280

CO RD 350

CO RD 114

CO RD 73

CO RD 544

CO RD 22

CO RD 34

CO RD 59

CO RD 537

CO RD 539

CO RD 523

CO RD 557

US 49E

SR 7

CO RD 538

CO RD 114

SR 7

SR 7

CO RD 255

CO RD 281

CO RD 513

CO RD 537

CO RD 523

CO RD 531

US 49E

US 49E

US 49E

CO RD 518

CO RD 518

CO RD 532

CO RD 542

CO RD 520

CO RD 520

CO RD 520

US 49E

SR 430

US 82

CO RD 546

CO RD 182

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