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Saratoga County, NY

228 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 46.9% rated Good, 45.6% Fair, 7.5% Poor.

228
Public bridges: 46.9%
Good condition: 7.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 27%
lowest Poor share in state: 7.5%
Poor-condition share: 228
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.

Saratoga County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Saratoga County ranks #17 of 62 New York counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 7.5%). Saratoga County, New York contains 228 public highway bridges. Roughly 46.9% are rated “Good,” 45.6% “Fair,” and 7.5% “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

228

Public highway bridges in Saratoga County

Good condition

46.9%

107 of 228 rated 7-9

Fair condition

45.6%

104 of 228 rated 5-6

Poor condition

7.5%

17 of 228 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#17 of 62

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

Condition distribution

Share of 228 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

46.9% (107)

Fair

45.6% (104)

Poor

7.5% (17)

Saratoga County's Poor-condition bridges carry 78,159 vehicle crossings a day

That is 5.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 7.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 4,885 crossings a day against 6,403 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 228 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

51.8% of Saratoga County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

118 of the 228 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 46.9% 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 50% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

RTE I87 over DWAAS KILL, built 1958, carries 39,073 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 17-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 78,159 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

2
1900s

5
1910s

6
1920s

5
1930s

19
1940s

6
1950s

27
1960s

44
1970s

5
1980s

11
1990s

44
2000s

28
2010s

20
2020s

6

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 44 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.3% 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).

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

The 5 New York counties nearest Saratoga County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 7.5% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1974 against a peer-group mean of 1969 is 5 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Saratoga 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 (this page)	228	46.9%	45.6%	7.5%	1974
Greene County	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 Saratoga 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 Saratoga County, both outside New York so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NY (228 bridges here).

Jackson County, IL · 228 bridges
Franklin County, IA · 228 bridges
Attala County, MS · 228 bridges
Pitt County, NC · 228 bridges

Similar average build year

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

Knox County, TN · avg 1974 · 588 bridges
Summit County, OH · avg 1974 · 563 bridges
Pierce County, WA · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
Lincoln County, OK · avg 1974 · 450 bridges

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

All 228 Good 107 Fair 104 Poor 17

Good-condition bridges (107)

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Saratoga County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Saratoga County's Poor-condition bridges carry 78,159 vehicle crossings a day

51.8% of Saratoga County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 50% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Saratoga 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

Good-condition bridges (107)

JONES ROAD

EAST WEST ROAD

DIMMICK RD

ACCESS TO LOCK 2

JONES ROAD

RTE 915J

CRESCENT AVENUE

RTE 29

RTE 67

RTE I87

RTE 67

RTE 4

OLD MILL ROAD

USHERS ROAD

FAIRGROUND AVE

BALLARD RD (CR33)

OCONNOR DRIVE

HOP CITY ROAD

WILTN GANSEVRT RD

CR 51 CHARLTON RD

PICNIC LOOP ROAD

GROOMS ROAD

RTE 9N

CRANE STREET

Military Road

FENWICK STREET

OLD WEST ROAD

BUTLER ROAD

FRANCES STREET

COUNTY ROAD 27

NORTH MAIN STREET

Peaceable Street

RTE I87

RTE I87

RTE 4

GOLDFOOT ROAD

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS

BLACK BROOK ROAD

FISH HOUSE RD CR14

BATH STREET

RTE 32

DIVISION STREET

ENTRANCE ROAD

RALPH STREET

RTE 819

SAND LAKE ROAD

STRONG RD

EAST HIGH STREET

BRYANTS BRIDGE RD

MOTT ROAD

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