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Hunt County, TX

456 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 51.8% rated Good, 47.6% Fair, 0.7% Poor.

456
Public bridges: 51.8%
Good condition: 0.7%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 45%
lowest Poor share in state: 0.7%
Poor-condition share: 456
public highway bridges: 1981
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.

Hunt County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hunt County ranks #112 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.7%). Hunt County, Texas contains 456 public highway bridges. Roughly 51.8% are rated “Good,” 47.6% “Fair,” and 0.7% “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

456

Public highway bridges in Hunt County

Good condition

51.8%

236 of 456 rated 7-9

Fair condition

47.6%

217 of 456 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0.7%

3 of 456 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#112 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 456 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

51.8% (236)

Fair

47.6% (217)

Poor

0.7% (3)

Hunt County's Poor-condition bridges carry 3,157 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,052 crossings a day against 3,453 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 456 of 456 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

43.9% of Hunt County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

200 of the 456 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 51.8% 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 76.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

Shelby Ave over Farber Creek Branch, built 1935, carries 2,410 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 3-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 3,157 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

7
1930s

10
1940s

17
1950s

91
1960s

57
1970s

30
1980s

35
1990s

52
2000s

103
2010s

44
2020s

10

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 103 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1981) matches the Texas average (1980).

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Hunt County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.7% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1973 is 8 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Hunt County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Pecos County	470	62.8%	36.8%	0.4%	1962
Jefferson County	457	48.4%	50.1%	1.5%	1977
Hunt County (this page)	456	51.8%	47.6%	0.7%	1981
Kaufman County	452	46.5%	52.4%	1.1%	1976
Smith County	427	47.1%	51.5%	1.4%	1981
Taylor County	419	45.1%	54.2%	0.7%	1967

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (456 bridges here).

Luzerne County, PA · 457 bridges
Woodbury County, IA · 455 bridges
Denver County, CO · 458 bridges
Hamilton County, IN · 454 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1981 here).

Franklin County, OH · avg 1981 · 922 bridges
Greenville County, SC · avg 1981 · 635 bridges
Montgomery County, OH · avg 1981 · 632 bridges
McLean County, IL · avg 1981 · 624 bridges

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

All 456 Good 236 Fair 217 Poor 3

All bridges (456)

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Hunt County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Hunt County's Poor-condition bridges carry 3,157 vehicle crossings a day

43.9% of Hunt County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 76.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Hunt 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 (456)

SL 178

SH 24 SBML

SH 24 NBML

SH34

SH34

SH 276

SH 276

FM 816

SH 24 NB

SH 24 / 50 SB

SH 24 / 50 NB

FM 2947

CR 1061

CR 4409

CR 3116

CR 3211

CR 3223

CR 2546

CR 2740

SL 178

CR 1023

CR 1023

IH 30 - WB

IH 30 - EB

FM 3218

CR 2720

US 69

CR 1001

CR 3223

Turtle Creek Dr.

6th Street

IH30 WB

US 380 WB

IH 30 WB

IH 30 EB

IH30 WB

IH 30 - EB

IH30 WBML

IH30- EB

IH 30 - WB

IH30 EB

IH30 WB

IH30 EB

IH30 WB

IH 30 N FRTG RD

IH 30 S FRTG RD

IH30 S FRTG RD

SH 224

FM 6

FM 6

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