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Warren County, MS

175 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 26.3% rated Good, 69.1% Fair, 4.6% Poor.

175
Public bridges: 26.3%
Good condition: 4.6%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 48%
lowest Poor share in state: 4.6%
Poor-condition share: 175
public highway bridges: 1972
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.

Warren County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Warren County ranks #39 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.6%). Warren County, Mississippi contains 175 public highway bridges. Roughly 26.3% are rated “Good,” 69.1% “Fair,” and 4.6% “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

175

Public highway bridges in Warren County

Good condition

26.3%

46 of 175 rated 7-9

Fair condition

69.1%

121 of 175 rated 5-6

Poor condition

4.6%

8 of 175 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#39 of 82

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

Condition distribution

Share of 175 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

26.3% (46)

Fair

69.1% (121)

Poor

4.6% (8)

Warren County's Poor-condition bridges carry 109,260 vehicle crossings a day

That is 12.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 13,658 crossings a day against 1,694 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 175 of 175 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

56% of Warren County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

98 of the 175 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 26.3% 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 28.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

I 20 over US 61N TO I20W RAMP, built 1971, carries 31,000 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 8-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 109,260 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1900s

6
1910s

5
1920s

8
1930s

7
1940s

2
1950s

14
1960s

33
1970s

32
1980s

17
1990s

21
2000s

12
2010s

14
2020s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 33 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1972, 14 years older than the Mississippi average of 1986.

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

The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Warren County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.6% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1972 against a peer-group mean of 1989 is 17 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Warren County and the 5 Mississippi counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Webster County	178	60.1%	33.1%	6.7%	1985
Winston County	176	80.1%	18.2%	1.7%	1992
Smith County	175	76.6%	19.4%	4%	1990
Warren County (this page)	175	26.3%	69.1%	4.6%	1972
Greene County	171	64.9%	33.3%	1.8%	1990
Montgomery County	170	74.1%	22.9%	2.9%	1989

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside MS (175 bridges here).

Hamilton County, NE · 175 bridges
San Miguel County, NM · 175 bridges
Madison County, NY · 175 bridges
Perry County, OH · 175 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1972 here).

Santa Clara County, CA · avg 1972 · 964 bridges
Madison County, AL · avg 1972 · 710 bridges
Kern County, CA · avg 1972 · 668 bridges
York County, PA · avg 1972 · 569 bridges

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

All 175 Good 46 Fair 121 Poor 8

Good-condition bridges (46)

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Warren County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Warren County's Poor-condition bridges carry 109,260 vehicle crossings a day

56% of Warren County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 28.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Warren 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 (46)

UNION AVENUE

SR 3

CONNECTING AVENUE

OLD HIGHWAY 80

REDBONE ROAD

FOX ROAD

RAWHIDE ROAD

WISCONSIN AVENUE

US 61

FREETOWN ROAD

BOVINA CUTOFF ROAD

I 20

PORTER CHAPEL ROAD

WASHINGTON ST

BOWMAR STREET

POLK STREET

REDWOOD ROAD

REDWOOD ROAD

ZOLLINGER ST

WARRIOR TRAIL

I 20 FRONTAGE ROAD

SR 161

BAZINSKY ROAD

FISHER FERRY ROAD

CAIRO STREET

WOOD STREET

KEMP BOTTOM ROAD

TIFFINTOWN ROAD

AVE D

WISCONSIN AVE

BALLGROUND ROAD

SR 161

CONFEDERATE AVENUE

BELVA DRIVE

FREETOWN ROAD

TUCKER ROAD

FONSALVANIA ROAD

FREETOWN ROAD

FISHER FERRY ROAD

REDBONE ROAD

POSSOM HOLLOW ROAD

MALLETT ROAD

TIMBERLANE DRIVE

OLD HWY 27

SR 27

US 61

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