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Fillmore County, NE

218 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 69.7% rated Good, 21.6% Fair, 8.7% Poor.

218
Public bridges: 69.7%
Good condition: 8.7%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

58th
of 88 on Poor share: 8.7%
Poor-condition share: 218
public highway bridges: 1978
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.

Fillmore County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Fillmore County ranks #58 of 88 Nebraska counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 8.7%). Fillmore County, Nebraska contains 218 public highway bridges. Roughly 69.7% are rated “Good,” 21.6% “Fair,” and 8.7% “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

218

Public highway bridges in Fillmore County

Good condition

69.7%

152 of 218 rated 7-9

Fair condition

21.6%

47 of 218 rated 5-6

Poor condition

8.7%

19 of 218 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#58 of 88

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

Condition distribution

Share of 218 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

69.7% (152)

Fair

21.6% (47)

Poor

8.7% (19)

Fillmore County's Poor-condition bridges carry 625 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 8.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 33 crossings a day against 517 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 218 of 218 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

38.1% of Fillmore County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

83 of the 218 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 69.7% 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 14.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

COLL 7600 over STREAM, built 1926, carries 90 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 19-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 625 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1910s

10
1920s

6
1930s

25
1940s

6
1950s

3
1960s

19
1970s

29
1980s

37
1990s

18
2000s

34
2010s

23
2020s

8

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 37 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 17% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1978) matches the Nebraska average (1977).

How Fillmore County compares with Nebraska's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Nebraska counties nearest Fillmore County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 8.7% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1978 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 87 Nebraska counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Fillmore County and the 5 Nebraska counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Stanton County	223	48.4%	42.2%	9.4%	1983
Thayer County	220	55%	40%	5%	1968
Fillmore County (this page)	218	69.7%	21.6%	8.7%	1978
Adams County	211	60.2%	33.6%	6.2%	1978
Butler County	211	20.4%	76.8%	2.8%	1983
York County	205	57.6%	39.5%	2.9%	1974

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NE (218 bridges here).

Okaloosa County, FL · 218 bridges
Yellow Medicine County, MN · 218 bridges
Newberry County, SC · 218 bridges
McNairy County, TN · 218 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NE (1978 here).

Orange County, CA · avg 1978 · 1,164 bridges
Sumner County, KS · avg 1978 · 659 bridges
Allen County, IN · avg 1978 · 613 bridges
Livingston County, IL · avg 1978 · 579 bridges

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

All 218 Good 152 Fair 47 Poor 19

Fair-condition bridges (47)

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Fillmore County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Fillmore County's Poor-condition bridges carry 625 vehicle crossings a day

38.1% of Fillmore County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 14.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Fillmore County compares with Nebraska'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 (47)

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