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Hyde County, NC

75 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 44% rated Good, 49.3% Fair, 6.7% Poor.

75
Public bridges: 44%
Good condition: 6.7%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Hyde 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.

63rd
of 100 on Poor share: 6.7%
Poor-condition share: 75
public highway bridges: 1998
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.

Hyde County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hyde County ranks #63 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6.7%). Hyde County, North Carolina contains 75 public highway bridges. Roughly 44% are rated “Good,” 49.3% “Fair,” and 6.7% “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

Public highway bridges in Hyde County

Good condition

44%

33 of 75 rated 7-9

Fair condition

49.3%

37 of 75 rated 5-6

Poor condition

6.7%

5 of 75 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#63 of 100

Among North Carolina counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 75 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

44% (33)

Fair

49.3% (37)

Poor

6.7% (5)

Hyde County's Poor-condition bridges carry 4,760 vehicle crossings a day

That is 8.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 952 crossings a day against 661 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 75 of 75 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

9.3% of Hyde County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

7 of the 75 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 44% 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 63% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

NC12 FERRY over HATTERAS INLET, built 1992, carries 3,000 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 4,760 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1950s

6
1970s

3
1980s

7
1990s

21
2000s

19
2010s

17
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 21 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 28% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1998, 12 years newer than the North Carolina average of 1986.

How Hyde County compares with North Carolina's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Hyde County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6.7% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1998 against a peer-group mean of 1984 is 14 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 99 North Carolina counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Hyde County and the 5 North Carolina counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Warren County	84	47.6%	47.6%	4.8%	1985
Northampton County	83	31.3%	65.1%	3.6%	1981
Jones County	82	51.2%	47.6%	1.2%	1996
Vance County	75	37.3%	56%	6.7%	1983
Hyde County (this page)	75	44%	49.3%	6.7%	1998
Clay County	63	44.4%	52.4%	3.2%	1973

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 Hyde 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 Hyde County, both outside North Carolina so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NC (75 bridges here).

Washington County, CO · 75 bridges
Bradford County, FL · 75 bridges
Toombs County, GA · 75 bridges
McLean County, KY · 75 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1998 here).

Collin County, TX · avg 1998 · 1,127 bridges
Orange County, FL · avg 1998 · 885 bridges
Fort Bend County, TX · avg 1998 · 795 bridges
Montgomery County, TX · avg 1998 · 710 bridges

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

All 75 Good 33 Fair 37 Poor 5

Fair-condition bridges (37)

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Hyde County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Hyde County's Poor-condition bridges carry 4,760 vehicle crossings a day

9.3% of Hyde County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 63% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Hyde County compares with North Carolina's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Fair-condition bridges (37)

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SR1117

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NC45

NC12 FERRY

US264

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EAST MAIN DRIVE

NC12 FERRY

NC45

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NC45

NC45

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