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Wood County, OH

508 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 64.2% rated Good, 31.5% Fair, 4.3% Poor.

508
Public bridges: 64.2%
Good condition: 4.3%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 49%
lowest Poor share in state: 4.3%
Poor-condition share: 508
public highway bridges: 1980
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.

Wood County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Wood County ranks #43 of 88 Ohio counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.3%). Wood County, Ohio contains 508 public highway bridges. Roughly 64.2% are rated “Good,” 31.5% “Fair,” and 4.3% “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

508

Public highway bridges in Wood County

Good condition

64.2%

326 of 508 rated 7-9

Fair condition

31.5%

160 of 508 rated 5-6

Poor condition

4.3%

22 of 508 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#43 of 88

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

Condition distribution

Share of 508 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

64.2% (326)

Fair

31.5% (160)

Poor

4.3% (22)

Wood County's Poor-condition bridges carry 17,783 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 847 crossings a day against 6,701 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 507 of 508 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

46.1% of Wood County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

234 of the 508 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 64.2% 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 21.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

DROUILLARD ROAD over DRY CREEK DROUILLARD RD, built 1931, carries 3,873 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 22-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 17,783 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1900s

1
1910s

5
1920s

4
1930s

13
1940s

8
1950s

63
1960s

117
1970s

43
1980s

48
1990s

78
2000s

75
2010s

41
2020s

12

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 117 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1980) matches the Ohio average (1977).

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

The 5 Ohio counties nearest Wood County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.3% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1980 against a peer-group mean of 1981 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Wood County and the 5 Ohio counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Summit County	563	55.4%	42.3%	2.3%	1974
Wood County (this page)	508	64.2%	31.5%	4.3%	1980
Darke County	463	82.9%	16.6%	0.4%	1985
Licking County	439	57.2%	35.1%	7.7%	1988
Lucas County	418	74.4%	23.7%	1.9%	1984
Stark County	415	51.8%	42.7%	5.5%	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 Wood 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 Wood County, both outside Ohio so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OH (508 bridges here).

Oakland County, MI · 508 bridges
Morris County, NJ · 508 bridges
Douglas County, NE · 509 bridges
Linn County, IA · 506 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OH (1980 here).

Tulsa County, OK · avg 1980 · 1,135 bridges
Miami-Dade County, FL · avg 1980 · 1,057 bridges
Pulaski County, AR · avg 1980 · 721 bridges
McLennan County, TX · avg 1980 · 714 bridges

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

All 508 Good 326 Fair 160 Poor 22

Fair-condition bridges (160)

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Wood County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Wood County's Poor-condition bridges carry 17,783 vehicle crossings a day

46.1% of Wood County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 21.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Wood 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

Fair-condition bridges (160)

BAYS ROAD

WAPAKONETA ROAD

CYGNET ROAD

JERRY CITY ROAD

STEARNS ROAD

RUDOLPH ROAD

WATER STREET

GREENSBURG PIKE

MERMILL ROAD

POTTER ROAD

BAYS ROAD

CUSTAR ROAD

CYGNET ROAD

BRADNER ROAD

HAMMANSBURG ROAD

OIL CENTER ROAD

WINGSTON ROAD

LATCHA ROAD

PELTON ROAD

GLENWOOD ROAD

EMERSON ROAD

LIBERTY-HI ROAD

CR 28

CR 324

SR 281

SR 281

CYGNET ROAD

SAND RIDGE ROAD

LUCKEY ROAD

DROUILLARD ROAD

CUSTAR ROAD

BAYS ROAD

LEMOYNE ROAD

LAYMAN ROAD

MILLBURY ROAD

MILLBURY ROAD

PLUMEY ROAD

USR 23

SR 51

SB I75 C/D ROAD

SR 281

I80 OH TPK

CYGNET ROAD

CYGNET ROAD

PEMBERVILLE ROAD

OREGON ROAD

HALL ROAD

QUARRY ROAD

TULLER ROAD

TONTOGANY CREEK RD

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