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Yalobusha County, MS

158 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 45.6% rated Good, 48.1% Fair, 6.3% Poor.

158
Public bridges: 45.6%
Good condition: 6.3%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Yalobusha 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.

53rd
of 82 on Poor share: 6.3%
Poor-condition share: 158
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.

Yalobusha County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Yalobusha County ranks #53 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6.3%). Yalobusha County, Mississippi contains 158 public highway bridges. Roughly 45.6% are rated “Good,” 48.1% “Fair,” and 6.3% “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

158

Public highway bridges in Yalobusha County

Good condition

45.6%

72 of 158 rated 7-9

Fair condition

48.1%

76 of 158 rated 5-6

Poor condition

6.3%

10 of 158 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#53 of 82

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

Condition distribution

Share of 158 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

45.6% (72)

Fair

48.1% (76)

Poor

6.3% (10)

Yalobusha County's Poor-condition bridges carry 15,050 vehicle crossings a day

That is 5.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,505 crossings a day against 925 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 158 of 158 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

44.9% of Yalobusha County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

71 of the 158 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 45.6% 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 27.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SR 32 over JOHNSON CREEK, built 1955, carries 4,200 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 10-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 15,050 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

1
1940s

11
1950s

15
1960s

35
1970s

19
1980s

15
1990s

30
2000s

17
2010s

12
2020s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 35 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 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1979, 7 years older than the Mississippi average of 1986.

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

The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Yalobusha County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6.3% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1987 is 8 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Yalobusha County and the 5 Mississippi counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Perry County	162	71%	29%	0%	1990
Yalobusha County (this page)	158	45.6%	48.1%	6.3%	1979
Franklin County	157	58.6%	31.2%	10.2%	1987
Tallahatchie County	155	42.6%	37.4%	20%	1985
Clay County	154	73.4%	24.7%	1.9%	1988
Walthall County	154	85.7%	13%	1.3%	1987

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside MS (158 bridges here).

Napa County, CA · 158 bridges
Wells County, IN · 158 bridges
Jackson County, MI · 158 bridges
Fergus County, MT · 158 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside MS (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.

All 158 Good 72 Fair 76 Poor 10

Good-condition bridges (72)

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Yalobusha County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Yalobusha County's Poor-condition bridges carry 15,050 vehicle crossings a day

44.9% of Yalobusha County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 27.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Yalobusha 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 (72)

CO RD 436

SR 32

CO RD 436

SR 32

COUNTY ROAD 35

SR 315

SR 315

US 51

CO RD 141

CO RD 148

CO RD 24

CO RD 129

SR 7

CO RD 230

CO RD 212

CO RD 225

CO RD 433

CO RD 227

CO RD 230

SR 7

SR 7

SR 330

SR 330

SR 32

CO RD 225

CO RD 3

CO RD 84

SR 330

CO RD 2

CO RD 20

SR 330

N. COURT ST.

SR 32

SR 315

CO RD 216

CO ROAD 433

SR 315

SR 7

SR 7

CO RD 216

CO RD 212

SR 330

CO RD 222

CO RD 212

CO RD 222

SR 330

CO RD 139

CO RD 428

CO RD 131

CO RD 227

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