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Lynchburg city County, VA

80 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 55% rated Good, 42.5% Fair, 2.5% Poor.

80
Public bridges: 55%
Good condition: 2.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 41%
lowest Poor share in state: 2.5%
Poor-condition share: 80
public highway bridges: 1977
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.

Lynchburg city County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lynchburg city County ranks #53 of 129 Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.5%). Lynchburg city County, Virginia contains 80 public highway bridges. Roughly 55% are rated “Good,” 42.5% “Fair,” and 2.5% “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

Public highway bridges in Lynchburg city County

Good condition

55%

44 of 80 rated 7-9

Fair condition

42.5%

34 of 80 rated 5-6

Poor condition

2.5%

2 of 80 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#53 of 129

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

Condition distribution

Share of 80 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

55% (44)

Fair

42.5% (34)

Poor

2.5% (2)

Lynchburg city County's Poor-condition bridges carry 17,956 vehicle crossings a day

That is 2.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 8,978 crossings a day against 10,070 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 80 of 80 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

41.3% of Lynchburg city County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

33 of the 80 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 55% 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 84.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

Candlers Mtn Rd over Route 29 Business, built 1959, carries 15,179 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 2-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 17,956 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

1
1900s

1
1930s

7
1940s

1
1950s

8
1960s

13
1970s

12
1980s

11
1990s

9
2000s

7
2010s

7
2020s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 13 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 16.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1977) matches the Virginia average (1974).

How Lynchburg city County compares with Virginia's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Virginia counties nearest Lynchburg city County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.5% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1977 against a peer-group mean of 1974 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Lynchburg city County and the 5 Virginia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Prince Edward County	82	42.7%	51.2%	6.1%	1978
Warren County	81	34.6%	64.2%	1.2%	1974
Isle of Wight County	80	30%	65%	5%	1979
Madison County	80	28.8%	65%	6.3%	1971
Lynchburg city County (this page)	80	55%	42.5%	2.5%	1977
Dickenson County	76	7.9%	90.8%	1.3%	1970

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside VA (80 bridges here).

Moffat County, CO · 80 bridges
Burke County, GA · 80 bridges
Gooding County, ID · 80 bridges
Madison County, ID · 80 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside VA (1977 here).

San Diego County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,632 bridges
King County, WA · avg 1977 · 1,238 bridges
Riverside County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,117 bridges
Shelby County, TN · avg 1977 · 1,077 bridges

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

All 80 Good 44 Fair 34 Poor 2

Fair-condition bridges (34)

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Lynchburg city County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Lynchburg city County's Poor-condition bridges carry 17,956 vehicle crossings a day

41.3% of Lynchburg city County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 84.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Lynchburg city 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

Fair-condition bridges (34)

Hollins Mill Road

12th Street

Hill Street

Graves Mill Road

Rivermont Avenue

Route 29 Business

Seventh Street

Ninth Street

501 Business

Old Forest Road

Campbell Avenue

Route 128 EBL

Langhorne Road

5th Street

Grace Street

EBL Timberlake Rd.

Timberlake Road WB

Enterprise Drive

Wards Road(Rt. 29)

Florida Avenue

Odd Fellows Road

SBL Lynchburg Expr

Campbell Avenue

Route 501

Route 501

Langhorne Road

Candlers Mt Rd EBL

Old Graves Mill Rd

Hydro Street

Graves Mill Road

Candlers Mtn. Rd.

Campbell Ave NBL

Autumn Drive

Park Avenue

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