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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.

Total bridges

227

Public highway bridges in Greene County

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.

pre-1900

3
1900s

1
1910s

3
1920s

6
1930s

12
1940s

8
1950s

25
1960s

38
1970s

12
1980s

13
1990s

35
2000s

40
2010s

25
2020s

6

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.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Greene County and the 5 New York counties closest to it in inventory size
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.

All 227 Good 83 Fair 122 Poor 22

Poor-condition bridges (22)

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Greene County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Greene County's Poor-condition bridges carry 78,240 vehicle crossings a day

45.4% of Greene County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 43% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Greene 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

Poor-condition bridges (22)

POLLYS ROCK ROAD

County Road 16

RTE 23A

BRIDGE STREET

RTE 23

STIEHL ROAD

NYSTA INT 21

SPRUCETON ROAD

EARLTON ROAD

SUNSIDE ROAD

RTE 214

RTE I87

RTE 23

RTE 23A

RTE 23

OLD KINGS HIGHWAY

SPRUCETON ROAD

CR40

DALE LANE

RTE 23

RTE 23

BOGGART ROAD

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