Total bridges
152
Public highway bridges in Brunswick County
County profile · official public datasets
Brunswick County, VA
152 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 23.7% rated Good, 69.7% Fair, 6.6% Poor.
- 152
- Public bridges
- 23.7%
- Good condition
- 6.6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Brunswick County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- 101st
- of 129 on Poor share
- 6.6%
- Poor-condition share
- 152
- public highway bridges
- 1969
- 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.
Brunswick County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Brunswick County ranks #101 of 129 Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6.6%). Brunswick County, Virginia contains 152 public highway bridges. Roughly 23.7% are rated “Good,” 69.7% “Fair,” and 6.6% “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
23.7%
36 of 152 rated 7-9
Fair condition
69.7%
106 of 152 rated 5-6
Poor condition
6.6%
10 of 152 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#101 of 129
Among Virginia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 152 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 23.7% (36)
Fair 69.7% (106)
Poor 6.6% (10)
Brunswick County's Poor-condition bridges carry 12,111 vehicle crossings a day
That is 2.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,211 crossings a day against 701 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 152 of 152 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
75.7% of Brunswick County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
115 of the 152 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 23.7% 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 48.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
HICKS STREET over NS RAILWAY (ABANDONED), built 1956, carries 5,853 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 10-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 12,111 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Brunswick County's bridges were built
152 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 1
Built before 1900
1 bridges
- 1920s 6
1920–1929
6 bridges
- 1930s 4
1930–1939
4 bridges
- 1940s 7
1940–1949
7 bridges
- 1950s 14
1950–1959
14 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
71 bridges
- 1970s 18
1970–1979
18 bridges
- 1980s 11
1980–1989
11 bridges
- 1990s 4
1990–1999
4 bridges
- 2000s 6
2000–2009
6 bridges
- 2010s 8
2010–2019
8 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 71 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 46.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1969, 5 years older than the Virginia average of 1974.
How Brunswick County compares with Virginia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Virginia counties nearest Brunswick County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6.6% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1969 against a peer-group mean of 1972 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 128 Virginia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amherst County | 157 | 38.9% | 56.1% | 5.1% | 1972 |
| Campbell County | 153 | 49% | 51% | 0% | 1979 |
| Lee County | 153 | 22.9% | 69.3% | 7.8% | 1973 |
| Brunswick County (this page) | 152 | 23.7% | 69.7% | 6.6% | 1969 |
| Dinwiddie County | 151 | 9.3% | 82.8% | 7.9% | 1972 |
| Grayson County | 145 | 16.6% | 78.6% | 4.8% | 1964 |
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 Brunswick 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 Brunswick County, both outside Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside VA (152 bridges here).
- Logan County, AR · 152 bridges
- Kosciusko County, IN · 152 bridges
- Muhlenberg County, KY · 152 bridges
- Clinton County, MO · 152 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside VA (1969 here).
- Cook County, IL · avg 1969 · 1,721 bridges
- Fresno County, CA · avg 1969 · 916 bridges
- Cuyahoga County, OH · avg 1969 · 871 bridges
- Ventura County, CA · avg 1969 · 501 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (10)
IRON BRIDGE ROAD
PoorOver: MEHERRIN RIVER
.16FR 673 & 1.2 TO 685, Brunswick, VA
Built 1884 Load: 2.8 t ADT: 815
TANNER TOWN ROAD
PoorOver: TAYLOR CREEK
.6 FR 623 & 1. TO 639, Brunswick, VA
Built 1954 Load: 23.5 t ADT: 570
ZERO ROAD
PoorOver: WAQUA CREEK
2.0 FR. 643 & 1.03 TO 636, Brunswick, VA
Built 1972 Load: 24.8 t ADT: 49
CHRISTANNA HWY.
PoorOver: NOTTOWAY RV (SPILLWAY)
0.0 BRUNSW CO 0.0 NOTTW C, Brunswick, VA
Built 1942 Load: 29.8 t ADT: 1,392
U.S. 1 (NBL)
PoorOver: SHINING CREEK
.28 FR 637 & 2.46 TO 644, Brunswick, VA
Built 1928 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 716
OLD STAGE ROAD
PoorOver: WILSON CREEK
.7 FR US58 & .2 TO 721, Brunswick, VA
Built 1971 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,920
BROWNS CREEK ROAD
PoorOver: UNNAMED TRIBUTARY
.9 FR 644 & 1.7 TO 686, Brunswick, VA
Built 1955 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 201
HICKS STREET
PoorOver: NS RAILWAY (ABANDONED)
.1 FR 1005 & .04 TO 1016, Brunswick, VA
Built 1956 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 5,853
CEDAR CREEK ROAD
PoorOver: CROOKED CREEK
1.6 fr LunenCo& .46 to645, Brunswick, VA
Built 1960 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 76
ROBINSON FERRY RD
PoorOver: MEHERRIN RIVER
.91 FR 623 & .5 TO 58, Brunswick, VA
Built 1967 Load: 41.5 t ADT: 519
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