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Moore County, TN

69 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 53.6% rated Good, 46.4% Fair, 0% Poor.

69
Public bridges: 53.6%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Moore County posts a top-5% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

Top 3%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 69
public highway bridges: 1974
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.

Moore County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Moore County ranks #3 of 95 Tennessee counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Moore County, Tennessee contains 69 public highway bridges. Roughly 53.6% are rated “Good,” 46.4% “Fair,” and 0% “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 Moore County

Good condition

53.6%

37 of 69 rated 7-9

Fair condition

46.4%

32 of 69 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 69 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#3 of 95

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

Condition distribution

Share of 69 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

53.6% (37)

Fair

46.4% (32)

Poor

0% (0)

46.4% of Moore County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

32 of the 69 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 53.6% 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.

1930s

3
1940s

3
1950s

13
1960s

9
1970s

9
1980s

14
1990s

11
2000s

5
2010s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 14 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1974) matches the Tennessee average (1977).

How Moore County compares with Tennessee's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Tennessee counties nearest Moore County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1974 against a peer-group mean of 1981 is 7 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 94 Tennessee counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Moore County and the 5 Tennessee counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Meigs County	76	53.9%	42.1%	3.9%	1975
White County	69	34.8%	59.4%	5.8%	1979
Moore County (this page)	69	53.6%	46.4%	0%	1974
Sequatchie County	67	47.8%	52.2%	0%	1980
Clay County	64	64.1%	29.7%	6.3%	1984
Hancock County	61	47.5%	50.8%	1.6%	1985

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TN (69 bridges here).

Irwin County, GA · 69 bridges
Edwards County, KS · 69 bridges
Barry County, MI · 69 bridges
Maries County, MO · 69 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TN (1974 here).

Summit County, OH · avg 1974 · 563 bridges
Onondaga County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
Orange County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
Pierce County, WA · avg 1974 · 472 bridges

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

All 69 Good 37 Fair 32 Poor 0

Good-condition bridges (37)

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Moore County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

46.4% of Moore County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Moore County compares with Tennessee'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 (37)

FAS 129

NFA A071

NFA A073

NFA 1980 (SA 6404)

NFA 1989 (SA 6409)

NFA 1993 (SA 6402)

NFA A028

NFA A083

NFA A100

NFA 1030 (SA 6410)

NFA 1987

NFA 1981

NFA 1995 (SA 6401)

NFA A020 (SA 6403)

NFA A024

NFA A026

NFA A038

NFA A044

NFA A048

NFA A070

NFA A074

NFA A122

NFA A126

NFA A311

NFA A133

NFA A146

NFA A224

NFA A225

NFA A227

NFA A302

FAS 129

FAS 50

FAS 50

FAS 50

FAP 55

FAP 55

FAP 55

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