Total bridges
115
Public highway bridges in Floyd County
County profile · official public datasets
Floyd County, VA
115 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 47% rated Good, 53% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 115
- Public bridges
- 47%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Floyd County pairs a top-5% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 5%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 115
- public highway bridges
- 1965
- 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.
Floyd County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Floyd County ranks #6 of 129 Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Floyd County, Virginia contains 115 public highway bridges. Roughly 47% are rated “Good,” 53% “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.
Good condition
47%
54 of 115 rated 7-9
Fair condition
53%
61 of 115 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 115 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#6 of 129
Among Virginia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 115 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 47% (54)
Fair 53% (61)
Poor 0% (0)
60% of Floyd County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
69 of the 115 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 47% 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.
When Floyd County's bridges were built
115 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s
1930–1939
39 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s 3
1950–1959
3 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
18 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
19 bridges
- 1980s 15
1980–1989
15 bridges
- 1990s 6
1990–1999
6 bridges
- 2000s 5
2000–2009
5 bridges
- 2010s 9
2010–2019
9 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 39 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 33.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1965, 9 years older than the Virginia average of 1974.
How Floyd County compares with Virginia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Virginia counties nearest Floyd 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 1965 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 13 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 128 Virginia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bland County | 122 | 11.5% | 82.8% | 5.7% | 1968 |
| York County | 122 | 19.7% | 79.5% | 0.8% | 1979 |
| Virginia Beach city County | 119 | 38.7% | 59.7% | 1.7% | 1983 |
| Floyd County (this page) | 115 | 47% | 53% | 0% | 1965 |
| Stafford County | 112 | 38.4% | 59.8% | 1.8% | 1987 |
| Caroline County | 107 | 22.4% | 72.9% | 4.7% | 1975 |
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 Floyd 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 Floyd County, both outside Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside VA (115 bridges here).
- Alachua County, FL · 115 bridges
- Walton County, GA · 115 bridges
- Latah County, ID · 115 bridges
- Whitley County, IN · 115 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside VA (1965 here).
- Windsor County, VT · avg 1965 · 483 bridges
- Bedford County, PA · avg 1965 · 417 bridges
- Crawford County, PA · avg 1965 · 399 bridges
- Harper County, KS · avg 1965 · 372 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (115)
Floyd Hwy. S / 221
GoodOver: Mira Fork
1.17 CAR. CO; 0.04 RT 761, Floyd, VA
Built 2019 Load: 59.0 t ADT: 1,871
Floyd HighwayN/221
GoodOver: Little River
0.0 RT 679N; 0.0 RT 679S, Floyd, VA
Built 1998 Load: 59.9 t ADT: 3,692
Phillips Rd / 619
GoodOver: Rans Creek
1.00 RT 755; 0.10-Carr Co, Floyd, VA
Built 1932 Load: 60.8 t ADT: 30
Penn Road 696
GoodOver: Dodds Creek
0.35 RT 813; 1.40 RT 1004, Floyd, VA
Built 1989 Load: 63.5 t ADT: 81
Indian ValleyRd787
GoodOver: Little Indian Creek
0.15 RT 619; 0.45 RT 655, Floyd, VA
Built 1988 Load: 64.4 t ADT: 724
Shady Grove Rd 624
GoodOver: Greasy Creek
0.80 RT 622; 2.80 RT 759, Floyd, VA
Built 1997 Load: 66.2 t ADT: 81
Meadow Run Rd 642
GoodOver: Little River
2.40 RT 221; 0.60 RT 711, Floyd, VA
Built 2002 Load: 72.6 t ADT: 225
Firehouse Rd 768
GoodOver: Greasy Creek
0.35 RT 221; 0.40 RT 769, Floyd, VA
Built 1961 Load: 73.5 t ADT: 572
IndianCreekRd/751
GoodOver: Little Indian Creek
1.30 RT 787; 0.45 RT 753, Floyd, VA
Built 2007 Load: 73.5 t ADT: 158
Graysville Rd 648
GoodOver: Little River
0.80 RT 642; 0.40 RT 610, Floyd, VA
Built 1984 Load: 81.6 t ADT: 94
Floyd Hwy. 221
GoodOver: Meadow Run
0.95 RT 610; 0.05 RT 642, Floyd, VA
Built 1935 Load: 83.5 t ADT: 3,558
Daniels Run Rd 610
GoodOver: Meadow Run
0.50 RT 221; 0.70 RT 649, Floyd, VA
Built 2010 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 915
CHRISTIANSBURG PK
GoodOver: Laurel Creek
0.19 RT 679; 0.30 RT 705, Floyd, VA
Built 2011 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 759
Danville Pike 58
GoodOver: Tory Creek
0.10 RT 620; 0.47 Carroll, Floyd, VA
Built 2015 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 1,884
Danville Pke RT 58
GoodOver: BRANCH OF TORY CREEK
0.32 RT 620; 0.25 Carroll, Floyd, VA
Built 2015 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 1,884
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