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Lunenburg County, VA

88 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 33% rated Good, 52.3% Fair, 14.8% Poor.

88
Public bridges: 33%
Good condition: 14.8%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Lunenburg 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.

124th
of 129 on Poor share: 14.8%
Poor-condition share: 88
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.

Lunenburg County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lunenburg County ranks #124 of 129 Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 14.8%). Lunenburg County, Virginia contains 88 public highway bridges. Roughly 33% are rated “Good,” 52.3% “Fair,” and 14.8% “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

Public highway bridges in Lunenburg County

Good condition

33%

29 of 88 rated 7-9

Fair condition

52.3%

46 of 88 rated 5-6

Poor condition

14.8%

13 of 88 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#124 of 129

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

Condition distribution

Share of 88 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

33% (29)

Fair

52.3% (46)

Poor

14.8% (13)

Lunenburg County's Poor-condition bridges carry 5,491 vehicle crossings a day

That is 16% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 14.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 422 crossings a day against 255 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 88 of 88 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

64.8% of Lunenburg County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

57 of the 88 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 33% 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 62.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SOUTH HILL ROAD over TOBACCO HERITAGE TR, built 1957, carries 3,441 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 13-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 5,491 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1910s

1
1920s

3
1930s

4
1940s

9
1950s

15
1960s

21
1970s

6
1980s

11
1990s

7
2000s

3
2010s

6
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 21 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.9% 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 Lunenburg County compares with Virginia's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Virginia counties nearest Lunenburg County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 14.8% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1969 against a peer-group mean of 1970 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 128 Virginia counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Lunenburg County and the 5 Virginia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Louisa County	93	28%	69.9%	2.2%	1973
Greensville County	92	21.7%	76.1%	2.2%	1966
Roanoke city County	88	39.8%	59.1%	1.1%	1972
Lunenburg County (this page)	88	33%	52.3%	14.8%	1969
Goochland County	87	13.8%	85.1%	1.1%	1981
Rappahannock County	87	37.9%	56.3%	5.7%	1960

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside VA (88 bridges here).

Chicot County, AR · 88 bridges
Prairie County, AR · 88 bridges
Grand County, CO · 88 bridges
Spalding County, GA · 88 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.

All 88 Good 29 Fair 46 Poor 13

All bridges (88)

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Lunenburg County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Lunenburg County's Poor-condition bridges carry 5,491 vehicle crossings a day

64.8% of Lunenburg County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 62.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Lunenburg County compares with Virginia'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 (88)

DAVIS LOWGROUND RD

MILL CREEK ROAD

CARY ROAD

BLANKENSHIP POND R

LONGVIEW ROAD

ST JOHNS CHURCH RD

MODEST CREEK ROAD

UNITY ROAD

NEW GROVE ROAD

PLANK ROAD

CRYMES ROAD

HART ROAD

WILD WOOD ROAD

BRAXTON ROAD

JUNIPER CREEK ROAD

SIMON ROAD

BRIDGE ROAD

SAFFOLD ROAD

BURKEVILLE ROAD

DOUBLE BRIDGES RD.

COURTHOUSE ROAD

COUNTY LINE ROAD

BEAVER CREEK ROAD

WARDS CORNER ROAD

SNEADS STORE ROAD

Courthouse Rd

PLANTERSVILLE ROAD

STONEMILL ROAD

POORHOUSE ROAD

PLANK ROAD

LUNENBURG CO. ROAD

DOUBLE BRIDGES RD.

LONGVIEW DRIVE

BRICKLAND ROAD

TRAFFIC ROAD

KINGS ROAD

BETHEL CHURCH ROAD

S.R. 40

FALLS ROAD

COURTHOUSE ROAD

ORAL OAKS ROAD

DOBBINS ROAD

COURTHOUSE RD

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BRUCEVILLE ROAD

TRAFFIC ROAD

RED BANKS ROAD

DOWSWELL ROAD

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BRICKLAND ROAD

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