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Falls County, TX

308 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 43.5% rated Good, 54.2% Fair, 2.3% Poor.

308
Public bridges: 43.5%
Good condition: 2.3%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Falls County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

189th
of 247 on Poor share: 2.3%
Poor-condition share: 308
public highway bridges: 1988
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.

Falls County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Falls County ranks #189 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.3%). Falls County, Texas contains 308 public highway bridges. Roughly 43.5% are rated “Good,” 54.2% “Fair,” and 2.3% “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

308

Public highway bridges in Falls County

Good condition

43.5%

134 of 308 rated 7-9

Fair condition

54.2%

167 of 308 rated 5-6

Poor condition

2.3%

7 of 308 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#189 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 308 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

43.5% (134)

Fair

54.2% (167)

Poor

2.3% (7)

Falls County's Poor-condition bridges carry 396 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 57 crossings a day against 2,346 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 308 of 308 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

33.1% of Falls County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

102 of the 308 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 43.5% 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 25.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

CR 325 over HOG CREEK #2064, built 2000, carries 100 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 7-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 396 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1910s

2
1920s

1
1930s

1
1940s

18
1950s

52
1960s

26
1970s

16
1980s

19
1990s

25
2000s

66
2010s

71
2020s

11

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 71 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1988, 8 years newer than the Texas average of 1980.

How Falls County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Texas counties nearest Falls County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.3% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1988 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 10 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Falls County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Bowie County	331	46.5%	52.9%	0.6%	1975
Tom Green County	310	61%	38.4%	0.6%	1971
Falls County (this page)	308	43.5%	54.2%	2.3%	1988
Fannin County	307	44.3%	50.2%	5.5%	1984
Lamar County	307	46.6%	50.5%	2.9%	1984
Guadalupe County	296	58.8%	41.2%	0%	1977

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (308 bridges here).

Rockingham County, NH · 308 bridges
Surry County, NC · 308 bridges
Kittitas County, WA · 308 bridges
Mississippi County, AR · 309 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1988 here).

Grant County, OK · avg 1988 · 476 bridges
Loudoun County, VA · avg 1988 · 442 bridges
Licking County, OH · avg 1988 · 439 bridges
Vernon County, MO · avg 1988 · 401 bridges

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

All 308 Good 134 Fair 167 Poor 7

Good-condition bridges (134)

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Falls County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Falls County's Poor-condition bridges carry 396 vehicle crossings a day

33.1% of Falls County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 25.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Falls County compares with Texas'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 (134)

CR 347

FM 46

FM 46

FM 935

FM 413

FM 413

FM 1671

CLARK ST

IH 35

US 77

FM 1963

SH 7

FM 1373

FM 935

FM 431

FM 434

FM 434

FM 434

FM 1950

FM 1240

FM 1671

FM 1771

FM 2117

FM 2117

FM 2958

FM 147

CR 105

CR 302

FCR 139

CR 141

CR 149

CR 243

CR 163

CR 257A

CR 151

CR 305

CR 343

CR 447

CR 362

CR 388

CR 418

CR 347

CR 347

CR 437

FM 431

CR 473

US 77

FM 2027

CR 412

FM 434

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