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Erie County, OH

225 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 66.7% rated Good, 32.9% Fair, 0.4% Poor.

225
Public bridges
66.7%
Good condition
0.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Erie County posts a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

Top 7%
lowest Poor share in state
0.4%
Poor-condition share
225
public highway bridges
1977
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.

Erie County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Erie County ranks #6 of 88 Ohio counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.4%). Erie County, Ohio contains 225 public highway bridges. Roughly 66.7% are rated “Good,” 32.9% “Fair,” and 0.4% “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

225

Public highway bridges in Erie County

Good condition

66.7%

150 of 225 rated 7-9

Fair condition

32.9%

74 of 225 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0.4%

1 of 225 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#6 of 88

Among Ohio counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 225 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
66.7% (150)
Fair
32.9% (74)
Poor
0.4% (1)

Erie County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,682 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,682 crossings a day against 6,520 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 225 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

54.7% of Erie County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

123 of the 225 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 66.7% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

VERMILION ROAD over NSRR RAILROAD, built 1975, carries 2,682 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 2,682 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Erie County's bridges were built

225 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 51 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1977) matches the Ohio average (1977).

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

How Erie County compares with Ohio's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Ohio counties nearest Erie County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.4% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1977 against a peer-group mean of 1972 is 5 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 87 Ohio counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Erie County and the 5 Ohio counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Marion County 229 2.2%
Jefferson County 226 8.4%
Erie County (this page) 225 0.4%
Pickaway County 224 2.2%
Brown County 223 3.1%
Crawford County 221 2.7%

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 Erie 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 Erie County, both outside Ohio so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OH (225 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OH (1977 here).

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

All 225 Good 150 Fair 74 Poor 1

Fair-condition bridges (74)

SR 13

Fair

Over: OVER ERI-002-1833

OVER SR 2, Erie, OH

Built 1987 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 3,928

RANSOM RD TR44

Fair

Over: RANSOM RD/CLAYTON DITCH

O-211, Erie, OH

Built 1962 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 363

HURON AVERY

Fair

Over: OVER ERI-002-1773

.52 MI W OF SR 13, Erie, OH

Built 1987 Load: 37.9 t ADT: 886

I80 OH TPK

Fair

Over: HUMM RD

6.7MI EAST OF EXIT 118, Erie, OH

Built 1954 Load: 37.9 t ADT: 40,573

PERKINS AVE CUTOFF

Fair

Over: MILLS CREEK

PERKINS AVE CURVE WEST, Erie, OH

Built 1934 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 990

I-80 Ohio Turnpike

Fair

Over: BERLIN RD

5.4MI EAST OF EXIT 118, Erie, OH

Built 1954 Load: 39.2 t ADT: 40,573

SR 4

Fair

Over: PIPE CREEK

3.07 MILES N OF HURON CO, Erie, OH

Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,980

ARLINGTON RD

Fair

Over: I80 OHIO TURNPIKE

3.7MI EAST OF EXIT 7, Erie, OH

Built 1954 Load: 41.5 t ADT: 324

SR 2

Fair

Over: OVER CH-10 (BOGART RD)

1.32 MI W OF SR 13, Erie, OH

Built 1987 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 10,562

SR 269

Fair

Over: I80 OHIO TPK

11.8MI WEST OF EXIT 7, Erie, OH

Built 1954 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 3,511

DARROW RD CR14

Fair

Over: DARROW RD/OLD WOMAN CRK

B-512, Erie, OH

Built 1961 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 340

HARRIS RD TR108

Fair

Over: HARRIS RD-PIPE CREEK

G-202, Erie, OH

Built 1954 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 797

I80 OH TPK

Fair

Over: SR 99

7.4MI WEST OF EXIT 118, Erie, OH

Built 1954 Load: 42.4 t ADT: 40,413

I80 OH TPK

Fair

Over: PORTLAND RD

9.4MI WEST OF EXIT 118, Erie, OH

Built 1954 Load: 43.4 t ADT: 42,178

C-143 RISDEN ROAD

Fair

Over: OVER ERI-002-2720

5.04 MILES EAST OF SR 61, Erie, OH

Built 1973 Load: 44.7 t ADT: 715

SR 2

Fair

Over: PIPE CREEK

1.08 MI E OF SR4, Erie, OH

Built 1961 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 12,357

SR 2

Fair

Over: PIPE CREEK

1.08 MI E OF SR4, Erie, OH

Built 1961 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 12,357

CHAPIN RD TR131

Fair

Over: CHAPIN RD/OLD WOMAN CRK

B-401, Erie, OH

Built 1974 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 385

GALLOWAY RD TR118

Fair

Over: GALLOWAY RD/PLUM BROOK

H-401, Erie, OH

Built 1963 Load: 47.6 t ADT: 3,805

SR 2

Fair

Over: LAGOON (SANDUSKY BAY)

.24 MI W SR 269, Erie, OH

Built 1963 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 19,921

I80 OH TPK

Fair

Over: CHAPPLE CREEK DITCH

8MI EAST OF EXIT 118, Erie, OH

Built 1954 Load: 57.3 t ADT: 40,573

I80 OH TPK

Fair

Over: DITCH

1.2MI WEST OF EXIT 7, Erie, OH

Built 1954 Load: 62.5 t ADT: 40,413

I80 OH TPK

Fair

Over: DITCH

4.2MI EAST OF EXIT 7, Erie, OH

Built 1954 Load: 77.8 t ADT: 40,573

I80 OH TPK

Fair

Over: DITCH

7.5MI WEST OF EXIT 7, Erie, OH

Built 1954 Load: 89.4 t ADT: 40,413

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