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Chenango County, NY

256 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 39.1% rated Good, 53.1% Fair, 7.8% Poor.

256
Public bridges: 39.1%
Good condition: 7.8%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 34%
lowest Poor share in state: 7.8%
Poor-condition share: 256
public highway bridges: 1975
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.

Chenango County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Chenango County ranks #21 of 62 New York counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 7.8%). Chenango County, New York contains 256 public highway bridges. Roughly 39.1% are rated “Good,” 53.1% “Fair,” and 7.8% “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

256

Public highway bridges in Chenango County

Good condition

39.1%

100 of 256 rated 7-9

Fair condition

53.1%

136 of 256 rated 5-6

Poor condition

7.8%

20 of 256 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#21 of 62

Among New York counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 256 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

39.1% (100)

Fair

53.1% (136)

Poor

7.8% (20)

Chenango County's Poor-condition bridges carry 26,895 vehicle crossings a day

That is 5.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 7.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,345 crossings a day against 1,538 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 254 of 256 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

43.8% of Chenango County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

112 of the 256 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 39.1% 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 34.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

RTE I88 over UNNAMED CREEK UNNAMED C, built 1974, carries 9,331 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 20-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 26,895 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

1
1900s

3
1910s

3
1920s

6
1930s

47
1940s

13
1950s

8
1960s

13
1970s

26
1980s

16
1990s

58
2000s

30
2010s

24
2020s

8

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 58 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1975) matches the New York average (1972).

How Chenango County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 New York counties nearest Chenango County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 7.8% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1969 is 6 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 61 New York counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Chenango County and the 5 New York counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Chemung County	256	38.7%	54.7%	6.6%	1977
Essex County	256	48.4%	44.5%	7%	1981
Chenango County (this page)	256	39.1%	53.1%	7.8%	1975
Herkimer County	248	46.8%	41.1%	12.1%	1973
Rockland County	248	26.6%	63.3%	10.1%	1970
New York County	247	13.4%	76.9%	9.7%	1945

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 Chenango 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 Chenango County, both outside New York so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NY (256 bridges here).

Clayton County, IA · 256 bridges
Brown County, KS · 256 bridges
Harrison County, WV · 256 bridges
District of Columbia County, DC · 257 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NY (1975 here).

San Bernardino County, CA · avg 1975 · 1,422 bridges
Lane County, OR · avg 1975 · 1,010 bridges
Fulton County, GA · avg 1975 · 775 bridges
Westmoreland County, PA · avg 1975 · 620 bridges

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

All 256 Good 100 Fair 136 Poor 20

All bridges (256)

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Chenango County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Chenango County's Poor-condition bridges carry 26,895 vehicle crossings a day

43.8% of Chenango County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 34.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Chenango County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (256)

RTE I88

RTE I88

COUNTY ROAD 32

RTE 23

RTE 23

COUNTY ROAD 32

TOWN ROAD 21

KING ROAD

COUNTY ROAD 32

COUNTY ROAD 16

RTE 26

RTE 79

RTE 320

RTE 23

COUNTY ROAD 10A

ART LAKE ROAD

RTE 23

RTE 80

RTE I88

BECKWITH ROAD

RTE I88

COUNTY ROAD 28

RTE 80

RTE 23

RTE 12

RTE I88

RTE 235

RTE I88

RTE 12

RTE 80

COYE ROAD

RTE 23

RTE 12

COUNTY ROAD NO 32

NORTH TYNER ROAD

HOYT ROAD

RTE 7

CR 22

BUCKLEY HOLLOW RD

CHASE ROAD

RTE 23

COUNTY ROAD 14A

RTE 23

LINCKLAEN CTR RD

N CANAL STREET

MELONDY HILL ROAD

RTE 12

CR 9

CLOVERDALE ROAD

RACE ROAD

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