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Schuyler County, NY

100 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40% rated Good, 55% Fair, 5% Poor.

100
Public bridges: 40%
Good condition: 5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Schuyler County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 13%
lowest Poor share in state: 5%
Poor-condition share: 100
public highway bridges: 1983
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.

Schuyler County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Schuyler County ranks #8 of 62 New York counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5%). Schuyler County, New York contains 100 public highway bridges. Roughly 40% are rated “Good,” 55% “Fair,” and 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

100

Public highway bridges in Schuyler County

Good condition

40%

40 of 100 rated 7-9

Fair condition

55%

55 of 100 rated 5-6

Poor condition

5 of 100 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#8 of 62

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

Condition distribution

Share of 100 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

40% (40)

Fair

55% (55)

Poor

5% (5)

Schuyler County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,902 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 380 crossings a day against 1,474 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 100 of 100 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

29% of Schuyler County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

29 of the 100 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 40% 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 59.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

COUNTY ROAD 16 over TRIB MEADS CREEK, built 1969, carries 1,135 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 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 1,902 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

2
1930s

9
1940s

5
1950s

6
1960s

4
1970s

6
1980s

22
1990s

17
2000s

12
2010s

13
2020s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 22 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1983, 11 years newer than the New York average of 1972.

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

The 5 New York counties nearest Schuyler County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1983 against a peer-group mean of 1969 is 14 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Schuyler County and the 5 New York counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Schenectady County	115	32.2%	60%	7.8%	1977
Putnam County	104	15.4%	73.1%	11.5%	1964
Schuyler County (this page)	100	40%	55%	5%	1983
Fulton County	98	34.7%	50%	15.3%	1958
Wayne County	97	48.5%	41.2%	10.3%	1974
Hamilton County	88	34.1%	51.1%	14.8%	1970

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NY (100 bridges here).

Ketchikan Gateway County, AK · 100 bridges
Gunnison County, CO · 100 bridges
Monroe County, FL · 100 bridges
Fayette County, IN · 100 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NY (1983 here).

Dallas County, TX · avg 1983 · 3,230 bridges
Bexar County, TX · avg 1983 · 2,342 bridges
Sedgwick County, KS · avg 1983 · 1,333 bridges
Will County, IL · avg 1983 · 649 bridges

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

All 100 Good 40 Fair 55 Poor 5

Good-condition bridges (40)

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Schuyler County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Schuyler County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,902 vehicle crossings a day

29% of Schuyler County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 59.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Schuyler 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 (40)

RTE 224

RTE 14

N LHOMMEDIEU STR

RTE 228

COUNTY ROAD 28

CR#15-RIDGE RD

Bishops Corners Ro

HAVENS ROAD

VAN ZANDT HOLLOW R

SEXTON HOLLOW ROAD

CR15 RIDGE ROAD

SOUTH GENESEE RD

RTE 226

RTE 14A

COUNTY ROAD 14

BOWER RD

COUNTY ROAD 13

BUCK HILL ROAD

RTE 79

RTE 14

RTE 227

COUNTY ROAD 16

COUNTY ROAD 23A

RTE 224

RTE 14

COUNTY ROAD 4

COUNTY ROAD 6

STILLWELL ROAD

DECATUR STREET

COUNTRY ROAD 6

HORNBY ROAD

RTE 226

RTE 79

VALOIS POINT ROAD

COUNTY ROAD 16

MILL STREET

RTE 79

COUNTY ROAD 27

COUNTY ROAD 13

STILLWELL RD

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