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Orange County, NY

472 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 25.4% rated Good, 59.3% Fair, 15.3% Poor.

472
Public bridges
25.4%
Good condition
15.3%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

53rd
of 62 on Poor share
15.3%
Poor-condition share
472
public highway bridges
1974
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.

Orange County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Orange County ranks #53 of 62 New York counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 15.3%). Orange County, New York contains 472 public highway bridges. Roughly 25.4% are rated “Good,” 59.3% “Fair,” and 15.3% “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

472

Public highway bridges in Orange County

Good condition

25.4%

120 of 472 rated 7-9

Fair condition

59.3%

280 of 472 rated 5-6

Poor condition

15.3%

72 of 472 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#53 of 62

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

Condition distribution

Share of 472 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
25.4% (120)
Fair
59.3% (280)
Poor
15.3% (72)

Orange County's Poor-condition bridges carry 543,301 vehicle crossings a day

That is 11.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 15.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 7,761 crossings a day against 10,118 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 459 of 472 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

57.8% of Orange County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

273 of the 472 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 25.4% 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 8.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

RTE I87 over RTE 32, built 1954, carries 43,981 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 72-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 543,301 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Orange County's bridges were built

472 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 109 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1974) matches the New York average (1972).

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

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

The 5 New York counties nearest Orange County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 15.3% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1974 against a peer-group mean of 1976 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 Orange County and the 5 New York counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Oneida County 496 11.5%
Cattaraugus County 484 6.2%
Onondaga County 472 10%
Orange County (this page) 472 15.3%
Broome County 468 2.4%
Delaware County 450 6.9%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NY (472 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NY (1974 here).

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

All 472 Good 120 Fair 280 Poor 72

Fair-condition bridges (280)

ARCADIA ROAD

Fair

Over: 17 17 83101152 RTE 17

2.6 MI E JCT US 6 & SH207, Orange, NY

Built 1954 Load: 61.7 t ADT: 2,412

RTE I84

Fair

Over: CLOVE BROOK

JCT I84 INT 1 RAMPS+RTE23, Orange, NY

Built 1966 Load: 62.6 t ADT: 4,133

RTE I87

Fair

Over: RTE 94

JCT OF RTS 94 & I-87, Orange, NY

Built 1953 Load: 63.2 t ADT: 43,981

OAK STREET

Fair

Over: WALLKILL RIVER

EAST OF RT 52 AT WALDEN, Orange, NY

Built 1987 Load: 63.5 t ADT: 2,411

RIVER ROAD

Fair

Over: RAMAPO RIVER

0.4 M NW OF HARRIMAN, Orange, NY

Built 1985 Load: 63.5 t ADT: 3,715

RTE 17M

Fair

Over: SEELY BROOK

3.2 MI W JCT RTS 17M+208, Orange, NY

Built 1935 Load: 66.2 t ADT: 5,261

RTE 207

Fair

Over: OTTERKILL

3.7 MI E JCT RTS 207&416, Orange, NY

Built 1927 Load: 66.2 t ADT: 5,599

PLUM POINT LANE

Fair

Over: CSXT RIVER LINE

0.3 MI NO INT 9W&MODNACK, Orange, NY

Built 1930 Load: 68.0 t

FORESTER AVENUE

Fair

Over: WAWAYANDA CREEK

AT WARWICK, Orange, NY

Built 1990 Load: 68.9 t ADT: 4,842

RTE 6

Fair

Over: 84I 84I83011154 RTE I84

JCT RTS 6+17M+I84 INT 3, Orange, NY

Built 1968 Load: 69.9 t ADT: 30,449

MC MANUS ROAD

Fair

Over: 84I 84I83011174 RTE I84

2 MI EAST OF EXIT 3 - I84, Orange, NY

Built 1967 Load: 70.8 t ADT: 516

CHEECHUNK ROAD

Fair

Over: WALLKILL RIVER

3.4 MI SE OF MIDDLETOWN, Orange, NY

Built 1965 Load: 71.6 t ADT: 1,604

RTE 17K

Fair

Over: EX-NEW HAV RR ROW

.9 MI E JCT SH17K & SH208, Orange, NY

Built 1935 Load: 71.7 t ADT: 8,289

RTE 211

Fair

Over: BASHER KILL

0.4 MI E JCT RTS 211&209, Orange, NY

Built 1978 Load: 72.6 t ADT: 2,037

RTE 6

Fair

Over: QUEENSBORO BROOK

0.1 MI W JCT RTE6+PIP, Orange, NY

Built 1958 Load: 73.5 t ADT: 26,571

RTE I84

Fair

Over: HARVEY ROE BROOK

2.5 MI E JCT RTS 17+I84, Orange, NY

Built 1969 Load: 77.1 t ADT: 21,713

GOODRIDGE ROAD

Fair

Over: RUTGERS CREEK

2.8 MI SW OF WESTTOWN, Orange, NY

Built 1930 Load: 77.4 t ADT: 267

RTE 94

Fair

Over: BLACK MEADOW CREEK

.3 MI SE JCT SH 17 & SH94, Orange, NY

Built 2004 Load: 82.6 t ADT: 7,224

STAGE ROAD

Fair

Over: HARVEY ROE BROOK

.8 MI E I84 & Goshen Tpk., Orange, NY

Built 1968 Load: 85.3 t ADT: 245

RTE 209

Fair

Over: NEVERSINK RIVER

IN DEERPARK, Orange, NY

Built 2013 Load: 87.1 t ADT: 4,848

FREELAND STREET

Fair

Over: RAMAPO RIVER

AT MONROE, Orange, NY

Built 1940 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 9,574

RTE I84

Fair

Over: INDIGOT CREEK

5.8 MI E I84 INT 2, Orange, NY

Built 1967 Load: 97.2 t ADT: 14,398

RTE I84

Fair

Over: INDIGOT CREEK

5.8 MI E I84 INT 2, Orange, NY

Built 1967 Load: 97.2 t ADT: 13,766

RTE I84

Fair

Over: QUASSAIC CREEK

0.6 MI E JCT I84+RTE 300, Orange, NY

Built 1963 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 64,329

COUNTY ROAD 105

Fair

Over: TRIB RAMAPO RIVER

3 MI W JCT SH 208 & SH 32, Orange, NY

Built 1956 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 17,814

RTE I84

Fair

Over: HARVEY ROE BROOK

2.5 MI E JCT RTS 17+I84, Orange, NY

Built 1969 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 20,910

NEW GREENVLLE TPK

Fair

Over: CLOVE BROOK

.7 MILE S OF PORT JERVIS, Orange, NY

Built 1967 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 708

OLD OXFORD ROAD

Fair

Over: SEELY BROOK

1 MILE EAST OF CHESTER, Orange, NY

Built 1937 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 694

PARADISE ROAD

Fair

Over: NEVERSINK RIVER

3.5 MI NW CUDDEBACKVILLE, Orange, NY

Built 1997 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 50

RTE I87

Fair

Over: ORANGE LAKE TRIBUTARY

.1 MI N JCT I87 & SH 52, Orange, NY

Built 1953 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 35,222

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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