Total bridges
227
Public highway bridges in Greene County
County profile · official public datasets
Greene County, NY
227 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 36.6% rated Good, 53.7% Fair, 9.7% Poor.
- 227
- Public bridges
- 36.6%
- Good condition
- 9.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Greene County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- 32nd
- of 62 on Poor share
- 9.7%
- Poor-condition share
- 227
- 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.
Greene County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Greene County ranks #32 of 62 New York counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 9.7%). Greene County, New York contains 227 public highway bridges. Roughly 36.6% are rated “Good,” 53.7% “Fair,” and 9.7% “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.
Good condition
36.6%
83 of 227 rated 7-9
Fair condition
53.7%
122 of 227 rated 5-6
Poor condition
9.7%
22 of 227 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#32 of 62
Among New York counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 227 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 36.6% (83)
Fair 53.7% (122)
Poor 9.7% (22)
Greene County's Poor-condition bridges carry 78,240 vehicle crossings a day
That is 11.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 9.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 3,556 crossings a day against 1,368 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 225 of 227 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
45.4% of Greene County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
103 of the 227 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 36.6% 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 43% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
RTE I87 over CAUTERSKILL ROAD KAATER, built 1955, carries 33,622 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 22-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 78,240 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Greene County's bridges were built
227 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 3
Built before 1900
3 bridges
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1910s 3
1910–1919
3 bridges
- 1920s 6
1920–1929
6 bridges
- 1930s 12
1930–1939
12 bridges
- 1940s 8
1940–1949
8 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
25 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
38 bridges
- 1970s 12
1970–1979
12 bridges
- 1980s 13
1980–1989
13 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
35 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
40 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
25 bridges
- 2020s 6
2020–2029
6 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 40 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 17.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1978, 6 years newer than the New York average of 1972.
How Greene County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 New York counties nearest Greene County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 9.7% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1978 against a peer-group mean of 1968 is 10 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 61 New York counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia County | 243 | 17.7% | 64.2% | 18.1% | 1963 |
| Kings County | 242 | 24.8% | 64% | 11.2% | 1953 |
| Oswego County | 233 | 28.3% | 61.4% | 10.3% | 1975 |
| Saratoga County | 228 | 46.9% | 45.6% | 7.5% | 1974 |
| Greene County (this page) | 227 | 36.6% | 53.7% | 9.7% | 1978 |
| Tioga County | 220 | 38.6% | 52.3% | 9.1% | 1976 |
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 Greene 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 Greene County, both outside New York so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NY (227 bridges here).
- Yell County, AR · 227 bridges
- McHenry County, IL · 227 bridges
- LaPorte County, IN · 227 bridges
- Rush County, IN · 227 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NY (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.
Fair-condition bridges (122)
RTE 32
FairOver: CATSKILL CREEK
INT.RTE 32 & CATSKILL CK, Greene, NY
Built 1976 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 3,547
MOUNTAIN TPK RD
FairOver: KISKATOM BROOK
1 MI E OF LAWRENCEVILLE, Greene, NY
Built 2004 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 633
TURK HOLLOW ROAD
FairOver: VLY CREEK
3 MI NE HALCOTT CENTER, Greene, NY
Built 1997 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 110
BIG HOLLOW ROAD
FairOver: BATAVIA KILL
4 MI E HENSONVILLE, Greene, NY
Built 2001 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 67
DIAMOND NOTCH RD.
FairOver: HOLLOW TREE BROOK
1 MI N LANESVILLE, Greene, NY
Built 1915 Load: 57.2 t ADT: 18
BROADSTREET HOLLOW
FairOver: BROADSTREET HOLLOW
3.5 MI W OF LANESVILLE, Greene, NY
Built 1997 Load: 57.2 t ADT: 76
RTE 23A
FairOver: BATAVIA KILL
.1 MI S JCT SH 23 & SH23A, Greene, NY
Built 2003 Load: 60.8 t ADT: 1,361
RTE 23
FairOver: 87IX RTE I87
JCT RT 23 & I87, Greene, NY
Built 1968 Load: 63.5 t ADT: 5,855
SUNSIDE ROAD
FairOver: BOWERY CREEK
1.5.MI SW FREEHOLD, Greene, NY
Built 2003 Load: 63.5 t ADT: 213
MILL HOLLOW ROAD
FairOver: EAST KILL
1.3 M NE JEWETT CENTER, Greene, NY
Built 1994 Load: 63.5 t ADT: 34
RTE 214
FairOver: STONY CLOVE TRIBUTARY
4.5 MI NE JCT RTS 28 &214, Greene, NY
Built 1957 Load: 67.1 t ADT: 990
HIGH HILL ROAD
FairOver: POTIC CREEK
0.2 MI S HMLT OF EARLTON, Greene, NY
Built 1910 Load: 67.1 t ADT: 450
GOLDEN HILL ROAD
FairOver: THORPE CREEK
1 MI E HAMLET OF E DURHAM, Greene, NY
Built 1981 Load: 68.0 t ADT: 159
RTE 81
FairOver: SQUIRMER VALLEY CREEK
3.2 MI SE JCT SH81 &SH145, Greene, NY
Built 1993 Load: 71.7 t ADT: 2,119
FALKE ROAD
FairOver: LITTLE WEST KILL
3.5 MI NW LEXINGTON, Greene, NY
Built 1989 Load: 72.6 t ADT: 28
SCHOHARIE TURNPKE
FairOver: BASIC CREEK
HAMLET OF FREEHOLD, Greene, NY
Built 2003 Load: 72.6 t ADT: 375
RTE 81
FairOver: UNKNOWN CREEK
0.3 MI W JCT I87 & RT 81, Greene, NY
Built 1953 Load: 77.1 t ADT: 4,431
NEW BALTIMORE RD
FairOver: CSX TRANSPRTATION
1.5 MI W NEW BALTIMORE, Greene, NY
Built 1981 Load: 78.9 t ADT: 670
RTE 214
FairOver: STONY CLOVE CREEK
8 MI N OF JCT SR 28, Greene, NY
Built 1948 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 990
RTE 214
FairOver: MYRTLE BROOK
RT 214 1.1 MI SOFEDGEWOOD, Greene, NY
Built 1957 Load: 97.1 t ADT: 990
RTE 23A
FairOver: KAATERSKILL CREEK
RT 23A IN HAINES FALLS, Greene, NY
Built 1961 Load: 97.2 t ADT: 4,793
ALL PEAT BEDS ROAD
FairOver: GRAPEVILLE CREEK
0.8 MI E OF NY81, Greene, NY
Built 1984 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 83
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