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White Pine County, NV

5 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 20% rated Good, 80% Fair, 0% Poor.

5
Public bridges
20%
Good condition
0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

White Pine 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.

10th
of 16 on Poor share
0%
Poor-condition share
5
public highway bridges
1973
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.

White Pine County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, White Pine County ranks #10 of 16 Nevada counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). White Pine County, Nevada contains 5 public highway bridges. Roughly 20% are rated “Good,” 80% “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.

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

5

Public highway bridges in White Pine County

Good condition

20%

1 of 5 rated 7-9

Fair condition

80%

4 of 5 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0%

0 of 5 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#10 of 16

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

Condition distribution

Share of 5 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
20% (1)
Fair
80% (4)
Poor
0% (0)

60% of White Pine County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

3 of the 5 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 20% 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.

When White Pine County's bridges were built

5 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 2 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 40% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1973, 15 years older than the Nevada average of 1988.

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

How White Pine County compares with Nevada's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Nevada counties nearest White Pine County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1973 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 5 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 15 Nevada counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for White Pine County and the 5 Nevada counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Lander County 21 0%
Nye County 21 0%
Lincoln County 12 0%
Storey County 10 30%
Mineral County 7 0%
White Pine County (this page) 5 0%

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 White Pine County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

Good-condition bridges (1)

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainBridges

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.