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Medina County, OH

252 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 60.3% rated Good, 36.5% Fair, 3.2% Poor.

252
Public bridges: 60.3%
Good condition: 3.2%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 45%
lowest Poor share in state: 3.2%
Poor-condition share: 252
public highway bridges: 1981
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.

Medina County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Medina County ranks #40 of 88 Ohio counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.2%). Medina County, Ohio contains 252 public highway bridges. Roughly 60.3% are rated “Good,” 36.5% “Fair,” and 3.2% “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

252

Public highway bridges in Medina County

Good condition

60.3%

152 of 252 rated 7-9

Fair condition

36.5%

92 of 252 rated 5-6

Poor condition

3.2%

8 of 252 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#40 of 88

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

Condition distribution

Share of 252 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

60.3% (152)

Fair

36.5% (92)

Poor

3.2% (8)

Medina County's Poor-condition bridges carry 15,613 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,952 crossings a day against 8,667 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 252 of 252 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

48.8% of Medina County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

123 of the 252 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 60.3% 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 42.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

S. HUNTINGTON ST over CHAMPION CRK(HUNTINGTON), built 1975, carries 6,614 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 8-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 15,613 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1900s

3
1920s

2
1930s

4
1940s

5
1950s

47
1960s

47
1970s

27
1980s

9
1990s

31
2000s

43
2010s

24
2020s

10

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 47 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1981) matches the Ohio average (1977).

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

The 5 Ohio counties nearest Medina County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.2% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Medina County and the 5 Ohio counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Jackson County	257	51.4%	40.1%	8.6%	1970
Medina County (this page)	252	60.3%	36.5%	3.2%	1981
Morrow County	250	62%	29.6%	8.4%	1978
Lawrence County	249	26.1%	64.3%	9.6%	1966
Highland County	245	69.8%	28.2%	2%	1985
Pike County	245	65.7%	27.8%	6.5%	1988

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OH (252 bridges here).

Montgomery County, IN · 252 bridges
Morgan County, IN · 252 bridges
Harlan County, KY · 252 bridges
Oxford County, ME · 252 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OH (1981 here).

Greenville County, SC · avg 1981 · 635 bridges
McLean County, IL · avg 1981 · 624 bridges
Shawnee County, KS · avg 1981 · 563 bridges
Pottawattamie County, IA · avg 1981 · 557 bridges

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

All 252 Good 152 Fair 92 Poor 8

Good-condition bridges (152)

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Medina County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Medina County's Poor-condition bridges carry 15,613 vehicle crossings a day

48.8% of Medina County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 42.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Medina County compares with Ohio'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 (152)

FIRESIDE DRIVE

SR 57

RD 4 - SMITH RD

IR 71 EXIT RAMP

TREASE ROAD

IR 71

SR 94

WEBER DRIVE

IR 71

IR 71

IR 71

RD 50 - CHIPPEWA

RD 22 - MARKS RD

RD 4 - SMITH RD

RD 33 - BRANCH RD

RD 42 - GRAFTON RD

BEACHSIDE BLVD

IR 71

N. RAILROAD STREET

SR 18

IR 76

IR 76

IR 76

IR 76

RD 44 - STATE RD

RD 46 - SEVILLE RD

RD 177 - GARVER RD

IR 71

IR 71

RD 72 - BUFFHAM RD

RD 40 - RYAN RD

RD 70 - FENN RD

SR 3

IR 71

IR 71

SR 421

BETTIE LANE

SR 3

SR 83

RD 35-FRIENDSVILLE

SR 3

IR 71

IR 71

RD 49-RIVER STYX

RD 170 - BAGDAD RD

GUILFORD BOULEVARD

RD 21 - GRANGER RD

RD 37 - REMSEN RD

RD 174 - BEACHLER

RD 118 - BLAKE RD

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