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Dutchess County, NY

332 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 22.6% rated Good, 60.8% Fair, 16.6% Poor.

332
Public bridges: 22.6%
Good condition: 16.6%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Dutchess 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.

57th
of 62 on Poor share: 16.6%
Poor-condition share: 332
public highway bridges: 1967
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.

Dutchess County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Dutchess County ranks #57 of 62 New York counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 16.6%). Dutchess County, New York contains 332 public highway bridges. Roughly 22.6% are rated “Good,” 60.8% “Fair,” and 16.6% “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

332

Public highway bridges in Dutchess County

Good condition

22.6%

75 of 332 rated 7-9

Fair condition

60.8%

202 of 332 rated 5-6

Poor condition

16.6%

55 of 332 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#57 of 62

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

Condition distribution

Share of 332 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

22.6% (75)

Fair

60.8% (202)

Poor

16.6% (55)

Dutchess County's Poor-condition bridges carry 369,737 vehicle crossings a day

That is 16.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 16.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 6,847 crossings a day against 6,687 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 328 of 332 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

59.3% of Dutchess County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

197 of the 332 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 22.6% 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 7.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

RTE 9 over RAILROAD PLAZA, built 1966, carries 26,742 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 55-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 369,737 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

2
1900s

6
1910s

10
1920s

17
1930s

54
1940s

27
1950s

16
1960s

59
1970s

17
1980s

27
1990s

33
2000s

25
2010s

30
2020s

9

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 59 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 17.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1967, 5 years older than the New York average of 1972.

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

The 5 New York counties nearest Dutchess County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 16.6% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1967 against a peer-group mean of 1965 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Dutchess County and the 5 New York counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Albany County	343	29.7%	65%	5.2%	1975
Dutchess County (this page)	332	22.6%	60.8%	16.6%	1967
Nassau County	328	28.4%	70.4%	1.2%	1959
Jefferson County	316	41.5%	47.8%	10.8%	1971
St. Lawrence County	312	59.9%	33.3%	6.7%	1976
Bronx County	311	16.1%	75.6%	8.4%	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 Dutchess 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 Dutchess County, both outside New York so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NY (332 bridges here).

Covington County, AL · 332 bridges
Franklin County, KS · 332 bridges
Goodhue County, MN · 333 bridges
Passaic County, NJ · 333 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NY (1967 here).

Los Angeles County, CA · avg 1967 · 3,547 bridges
Allegheny County, PA · avg 1967 · 1,294 bridges
Sonoma County, CA · avg 1967 · 609 bridges
Merced County, CA · avg 1967 · 528 bridges

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

All 332 Good 75 Fair 202 Poor 55

All bridges (332)

Sort:

RTE 44A

Fair

Over: EAST BRANCH WAPPINGER CR

0.8 MI.NW OF MILLBROOK, Dutchess, NY

Built 1953 Load: 97.2 t ADT: 3,575

RTE 55

Fair

Over: WHALEY LAKE STREAM

.3 MI E JCT SH 55 & SH216, Dutchess, NY

Dutchess County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Dutchess County's Poor-condition bridges carry 369,737 vehicle crossings a day

59.3% of Dutchess County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 7.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Dutchess 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 (332)

RTE 44A

RTE 55

EAST HOOK ROAD

NPS ROUTE 13

RTE I84

RTE I84

BEEKMAN ROAD

DOVER FURNACE RD

RIVER ROAD

Ridge Road

PINK LANE

RTE 115

COUNTY ROAD 28

COUNTY ROAD 21

COUNTY ROAD 21

BRIDGE STREET

WISSEMAN ROAD

LIMEKILN RD

BEEKMAN STREET

HOFFMAN ROAD

RTE 82

COUNTY ROAD 19

RTE 9G

COUNTY ROAD 78

COUNTY ROAD 61

COUNTY ROAD 80

Sycamore Drive

DOVER FURNACE RD

COUNTY ROAD 2

Hollow Road

COUNTY ROAD 79

RTE 9D

COUNTY ROAD 31

WASHINGTON AVENUE

COUNTY ROAD 51

COUNTY ROAD 41

CARPENTER ROAD

RTE 84

COUNTY ROAD 41

RTE 9

COUNTY ROAD 81

COUNTY ROAD 21

VELIE ROAD

COUNTY ROAD 58

DEGARMO ROAD

RTE 55

COUNTY ROAD 83

Salisbury Turnpike

RTE 376

HOFFMAN STREET

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