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Fannin County, TX

307 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 44.3% rated Good, 50.2% Fair, 5.5% Poor.

307
Public bridges: 44.3%
Good condition: 5.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

241st
of 247 on Poor share: 5.5%
Poor-condition share: 307
public highway bridges: 1984
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.

Fannin County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Fannin County ranks #241 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.5%). Fannin County, Texas contains 307 public highway bridges. Roughly 44.3% are rated “Good,” 50.2% “Fair,” and 5.5% “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

307

Public highway bridges in Fannin County

Good condition

44.3%

136 of 307 rated 7-9

Fair condition

50.2%

154 of 307 rated 5-6

Poor condition

5.5%

17 of 307 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#241 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 307 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

44.3% (136)

Fair

50.2% (154)

Poor

5.5% (17)

Fannin County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,885 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 170 crossings a day against 1,454 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 307 of 307 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

35.5% of Fannin County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

109 of the 307 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 44.3% 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 75% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

FM 1753 over BRUSHY CREEK, built 1980, carries 2,165 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 17-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 2,885 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

2
1930s

21
1940s

10
1950s

39
1960s

27
1970s

11
1980s

30
1990s

65
2000s

44
2010s

33
2020s

25

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 65 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1984) matches the Texas average (1980).

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Fannin County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.5% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1984 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 6 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Fannin County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Tom Green County	310	61%	38.4%	0.6%	1971
Falls County	308	43.5%	54.2%	2.3%	1988
Lamar County	307	46.6%	50.5%	2.9%	1984
Fannin County (this page)	307	44.3%	50.2%	5.5%	1984
Guadalupe County	296	58.8%	41.2%	0%	1977
Gonzales County	284	45.4%	51.8%	2.8%	1969

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (307 bridges here).

Jewell County, KS · 307 bridges
Spokane County, WA · 307 bridges
Rockingham County, NH · 308 bridges
Surry County, NC · 308 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1984 here).

Hennepin County, MN · avg 1984 · 936 bridges
Duval County, FL · avg 1984 · 831 bridges
El Paso County, CO · avg 1984 · 686 bridges
Steuben County, NY · avg 1984 · 627 bridges

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

All 307 Good 136 Fair 154 Poor 17

All bridges (307)

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Fannin County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Fannin County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,885 vehicle crossings a day

35.5% of Fannin County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 75% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Fannin 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

All bridges (307)

SH 34

SH 34

FM 100

FM 100

SH 78

FM 898

FM 824

FM 897

FM 1550

FM 1550

FM 1550

FM 1550

FM 1550

FM 1553

FM 1553

FM 2815

FM 409

FM 409

CR 3105

CR 2900

CR 2610

CR 2998

CR 3460

CR 3455

CR 3330

CR 3335

CR 3395

CR 2980

CR 2750

CR 2760

CR 2800

CR 2715

CR 2730

CR 4205 (BRAZ ST)

CR 4215

CR 4215

CR 4230

CR 4255

CR 4250

CR 4245

CR 4245

CR 2010

CR 2610

CR 2680

CR 2275

CR 2250

CR 2100

CR 2700

CR 2295

CR 2145

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