Total bridges
417
Public highway bridges in Bedford County
County profile · official public datasets
Bedford County, PA
417 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 30% rated Good, 60.9% Fair, 9.1% Poor.
- 417
- Public bridges
- 30%
- Good condition
- 9.1%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Bedford County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 30%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 9.1%
- Poor-condition share
- 417
- public highway bridges
- 1965
- 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.
Bedford County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bedford County ranks #20 of 67 Pennsylvania counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 9.1%). Bedford County, Pennsylvania contains 417 public highway bridges. Roughly 30% are rated “Good,” 60.9% “Fair,” and 9.1% “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.
Good condition
30%
125 of 417 rated 7-9
Fair condition
60.9%
254 of 417 rated 5-6
Poor condition
9.1%
38 of 417 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#20 of 67
Among Pennsylvania counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 417 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 30% (125)
Fair 60.9% (254)
Poor 9.1% (38)
Bedford County's Poor-condition bridges carry 100,875 vehicle crossings a day
That is 6.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 8.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,726 crossings a day against 1,130 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 416 of 417 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
64.3% of Bedford County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
268 of the 417 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 30% 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 35.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
PA TPK (I-70&I-76) over SR 2019(LR 05036), built 1939, carries 36,252 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 38-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 100,875 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Bedford County's bridges were built
417 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 8
Built before 1900
8 bridges
- 1900s 3
1900–1909
3 bridges
- 1910s 4
1910–1919
4 bridges
- 1920s 21
1920–1929
21 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
86 bridges
- 1940s 29
1940–1949
29 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
37 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
57 bridges
- 1970s 34
1970–1979
34 bridges
- 1980s 23
1980–1989
23 bridges
- 1990s 33
1990–1999
33 bridges
- 2000s 28
2000–2009
28 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
49 bridges
- 2020s 5
2020–2029
5 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 86 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1965, 5 years older than the Pennsylvania average of 1970.
How Bedford County compares with Pennsylvania's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Pennsylvania counties nearest Bedford County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 9.1% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1965 against a peer-group mean of 1971 is 6 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 66 Pennsylvania counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercer County | 438 | 39.3% | 45.2% | 15.5% | 1972 |
| Tioga County | 429 | 49.4% | 47.3% | 3.3% | 1977 |
| Fayette County | 422 | 39.6% | 42.7% | 17.8% | 1971 |
| Bedford County (this page) | 417 | 30% | 60.9% | 9.1% | 1965 |
| Bradford County | 399 | 43.4% | 46.6% | 10% | 1971 |
| Crawford County | 399 | 35.6% | 46.9% | 17.5% | 1965 |
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 Bedford 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 Bedford County, both outside Pennsylvania so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside PA (417 bridges here).
- Macomb County, MI · 417 bridges
- St. Charles County, MO · 417 bridges
- Santa Barbara County, CA · 418 bridges
- Lucas County, OH · 418 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside PA (1965 here).
- Windsor County, VT · avg 1965 · 483 bridges
- Harper County, KS · avg 1965 · 372 bridges
- Caledonia County, VT · avg 1965 · 247 bridges
- Macoupin County, IL · avg 1965 · 242 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (417)
SR 1015
PoorOver: BEAVER CREEK
2 MI.S.OF NEW ENTERPRISE, Bedford, PA
Built 1915 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 103
PA 31 & PA 96
PoorOver: BUFFALO RUN
MANNS CHOICE, Bedford, PA
Built 1933 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 1,939
PA 56
PoorOver: GORDONS CREEK
57 FEET EAST OF SR 4030, Bedford, PA
Built 1925 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 3,396
T-577 RIVERVIEW DR
PoorOver: SIX MILE RUN
RIDDLESBURG, Bedford, PA
Built 1935 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 25
SR 1020
PoorOver: SHERMAN VALLEY RUN
3.8 MILE EAST OF SR 1009, Bedford, PA
Built 1941 Load: 31.8 t ADT: 82
SR 4027
PoorOver: SCRUBGRASS CREEK
2 MI.N.OF IMLER, Bedford, PA
Built 1928 Load: 31.8 t ADT: 253
PA 26
PoorOver: PINEY CREEK
1.5 MI.SW.OF PURCELL, Bedford, PA
Built 1925 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 371
T352 Elk Lick Road
PoorOver: CLEAR CREEK
4.5 MI.SW.OF EVERETT, Bedford, PA
Built 1928 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50
US 220
PoorOver: TR.EVITTS CREEK
0.1 MILE NORTH OF SR 3003, Bedford, PA
Built 1926 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 5,566
T329 FOSSILVILLE R
PoorOver: LITTLE WILLS CREEK
FOSSILVILLE, Bedford, PA
Built 1930 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 100
T337 Narrow Lane
PoorOver: BEAVERS RUN
3 MI.S.OF CENTERVILLE, Bedford, PA
Built 1932 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 50
PA TPK (I-70&I-76)
PoorOver: SR 2019(LR 05036)
LUTZVILLE, Bedford, PA
Built 1939 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 36,252
T-704 Old Mill Rd
PoorOver: THREE SPRINGS RUN
1 MI.E.OF NEW ENTERPRISE, Bedford, PA
Built 1930 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 41
TPK RAMP AB I-70
PoorOver: PA TPK (I-76)
BREEZEWOOD INTERCHANGE, Bedford, PA
Built 1969 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 13,591
T-301 Hazen Road
PoorOver: EVITTS CREEK
2 MI.S.OF LAKE GORDON, Bedford, PA
Built 1935 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 60
T-337 Narrow Lane
PoorOver: EVITTS CREEK
2.5 MI.SE.OF CENTERVILLE, Bedford, PA
Built 1956 Load: 47.2 t ADT: 40
SR3009EVITTS CRKRD
PoorOver: KOON LAKE
.5 M.S EVITTS(LOBSTOR), Bedford, PA
Built 1932 Load: 86.2 t ADT: 146
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