Total bridges
2
Public highway bridges in Hooker County
County profile · official public datasets
2 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 100% rated Good, 0% Fair, 0% Poor.
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Hooker County shows a newer average build year than the state inventory.
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.
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hooker County, Nebraska contains 2 public highway bridges. Roughly 100% are rated “Good,” 0% “Fair,” and 0% “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.
Hooker County is too small a bridge inventory (2 bridges) for a reliable Poor-share ordinal against Nebraska's other counties, but its bridges make up <0.1% of Nebraska's 15,398 total public highway bridges in the FHWA inventory.
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
2
Public highway bridges in Hooker County
Good condition
100%
2 of 2 rated 7-9
Fair condition
0%
0 of 2 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 2 rated 4 or below
Share of 2 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
0 of the 2 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 100% 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.
2 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
1970–1979
1 bridges
2000–2009
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 1 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 50% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1992, 15 years newer than the Nebraska average of 1977.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.